Mail
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letter (message), letters, and parcel (package), parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid ...
is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels.
Historically, ''mail'' specifically meant a bag containing letters to be delivered by post.
Mail or The Mail may also refer to:
Newspapers
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Daily Mail
The ''Daily Mail'' is a British daily Middle-market newspaper, middle-market Tabloid journalism, tabloid conservative newspaper founded in 1896 and published in London. , it has the List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation, h ...
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The Mail on Sunday
''The Mail on Sunday'' is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format. Founded in 1982 by Lord Rothermere, it is the biggest-selling Sunday newspaper in the UK. Its sister paper, the ''Daily Mail'', was first published i ...
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MailOnline
MailOnline (also known as ''dailymail.co.uk'' and ''dailymail.com'' outside the UK) is the website of the ''Daily Mail'', a tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom, and of its sister paper ''The Mail on Sunday''. MailOnline is a division of dmg ...
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''Sunday Mail'' (Adelaide), formerly The Mail, an Australian newspaper
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''The Mail'' (Madras), formerly The Madras Mail
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''The Mail'' (Cumbria), a British local newspaper
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''The Mail'' (Zimbabwe), a newspaper
Electronic mail and online services
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mail (Unix)
mail is a command-line email client for Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
History
"Electronic mail was there from the start", Douglas McIlroy writes in his article "A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manua ...
, a command line email client
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Mail (Windows)
Mail (later Microsoft Outlook) is a discontinued email client developed by Microsoft and included in Windows Vista and later versions of Windows. It was available as the successor to Outlook Express, which was either included with, or released ...
, an e-mail client
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Apple Mail
Mail, also known as Apple Mail, is an email client included by Apple Inc. with its operating systems macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOS. Mail grew out of NeXTMail, which was originally developed by NeXT as part of its NeXTSTEP operating ...
, an email client
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Email
Electronic mail (usually shortened to email; alternatively hyphenated e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving Digital media, digital messages using electronics, electronic devices over a computer network. It was conceived in the ...
, electronic mail
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mail.com, a web portal and web-based email service provider
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Mail.Ru, a Russian email and online services provider
Other uses
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Chain mail
Mail (sometimes spelled maille and, since the 18th century, colloquially referred to as chain mail, chainmail or chain-mail) is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh. It was in common milita ...
, personal armour
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''Mail'' (film), a 2021 Indian Telugu-language film
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''Mail'' (manga), a Japanese comic
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Mail, Shetland, a hamlet in the Shetland Islands, UK
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Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), Afghanistan
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Greg Mail (born 1978), Australian cricketer
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Josh Mail (1974–2025), Australian rules footballer
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Mailing, Fuchuan County, China
See also
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Post box
A post box (British English; also written postbox; also known as pillar box), also known as a collection box, mailbox, letter box or drop box (American English), is a physical box into which members of the public can deposit outgoing mail intend ...
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