Talk:Snail mail

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What the hell is up with that paragraph about bandits? No source, I don't feel particulary bold, so if some one could fact check and or clean up that oddity~ 184.148.175.237 (talk) 20:22, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I'm Brigette: This is my 1st Wiki edit. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.94.82.93 (talk) 16:00, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Any idea who coined the term ? Jay 14:46, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

This is a dictionary definition, and one of geek slang at that. Move to Wiktionary. -- Tarquin 14:37, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

List at Vfd to see if you get any support. Jay 10:37, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

"Snail Mail" does not bring up the USPS as first Google result any more.

But as of right now, snail mail excluding Wikipedia still lists USPS.com as #1. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 01:11, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My diaries from the 1960s and 1970s show that I used the term "snail mail" in reference to land vs. air delivery of first class mail. In a letter to a friend I said she should write to me either by regular mail or air mail, but "even if you use snail mail, write to me," I wrote in a letter. That letter may not still be extant, but my diaries are, where I recorded letters before I sent them. 69.177.165.251 12:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I found a reference that I wrote in 1986 when I created a public Viewdata dial-up service at the BBC and took orders on it. Wonder if that makes me first in the UK to use it 'versus email'. Probably not, I remember already knowing the phrase. Citation is a messy gigantic text page, but search "Owltel" AND "BBC" David Atherton 16:31, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Mail

This page contains a little bit of Mail Maybe they should be merged or something? I mean, most of it isn't really that different. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arienh4 (talk • contribs) 15:56, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that the word "derogatory" accurately describes snail mail; I can think of many people (including myself) who use the term fondly. Besides, I'm not sure exactly how one insults a postal system. Retronym is great, but derogatory? Really? Happeningfish (talk) 19:05, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In the context of where the phrase came from: given the recent addition of the Jim Rutt paragraph (by me), the "Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City" paragraph doesn't seem to make a significant contribution to this page any more. I'm wondering if that paragraph shouldn't be removed? (Which then would require minor rewording of the Jim Rutt paragraph.) NewHorizon (talk) 20:02, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]