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A call of the names of those persons receiving mail for the purpose of transmitting mail to them a technique used in the military services to deliver mail to enlisted personnel...
mail carrier
A person who delivers the mail also called a letter carrier A male mail carrier is also called a mailman...
Black mail
Black mail [fr. maille, Fr., a small piece of money], a certain rent of money, coin, or other thing, anciently paid to persons upon or near the borders, who were men of influence and allied with robbers and brigands, for protection from the devastations of the latter. It was in fact a species of insurance. This was rendered illegal by 43 Eliz. C. 13. The same practice prevailed in Scotland, where it was also illegal. Also rent paid in cattle, otherwise called neat-gild; and all rents not paid in silver are called reditus nigri (black mail or rents), by way of distinction from reditus albi (blanch-firmes, or white-rents).But the term is used in modern times to signify extortion of money by threatening letters or threats to accuse of crime--an offence punishable, if the crime is punishable, by death or penal servitude for not less than seven years, or be an attempt at rape, or be an 'infamous crime,' i.e., sodomy, etc., by penal servitude for life, and in the case of a male under sixteen...
mailing list
A list of names and addresses to which advertising solicitations of money or other materials material sent in large quantities is mailed it is usually used by comercial or charitable organizations Mailing lists are often sold by organizations to other organizations and are frequently used for targeted mailing i e mailing to groups of people who are more likely htan the general population to respond as desired to the message in the mail...
Mail [fr. malle, Fr., a trunk], a bag of letters carried by the post, or the vehicle which carries the letters. As to theft, embezzlement by Post Office officer, or receiving mail bag, see (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), ss. 12, 18, 33 and (English) Post Office Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 48), ss. 50, 52, 55. Also, armour.Mail, 1. One or more items that have been properly addressed, stamped with postage, and deported for delivery in the postal system. 2. An official system for delivering such items; the postal system. 3. One or more written or oral messages sent electronically (e.g., through e-mail or voicemail), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963...
mail order buying
The buying and selling of goods to be shipped from the vendor through the mail to the purchaser Information about to be purchased may be found in catalogs advertisements on the web etc and purchase orders transmitted to the vendor by mail telephone or internet connection...
mail fraud
mail fraud see fraud ...
Electronic mail
a message transmitted from one computer to another accessible by means of a mail reading program on the receiving computer The message may have one or many intended recipients and may be directed by the sending program to one or to multiple receiving computers The message is typically in the form of a computer file and may be a simple ASCII text or any other type of binary coded information...
E mail
electronic mail a digitally encoded message sent from one computer to another through an electronic communications medium especially by means of a computer network...
mail car
A railway car of special design used for the transportation and sorting of mail en route to its destination and having employees of the post office inside to perform those functions...
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