Snail-mail

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  snail-mail n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic. Sometimes written
     as the single word `SnailMail'. One's postal address is,
     correspondingly, a `snail address'. Derives from earlier coinage
     `USnail' (from `U.S. Mail'), for which there have even been parody
     posters and stamps made. Also (less commonly) called `P-mail', from
     `paper mail' or `physical mail'. Oppose {email}.