The term snail post office is first once the graphic designation of a slow vehicle, whose driver is subordinated to transport the post office.

This designation was then transferred to a lengthy and extremely which was late service by mail. The term originates still from times in those the service by mail by Kutsche took place. Here it was always once given that a wheel break or a weather reversal retarded the further transport substantially. Child picture books from the 1930er years often show a snail, which brings the post office to the animals of the forest. In French restaurants it is quite often on the bill of fare noted, if the individual courses stress very much time, that one will feed here in the flight.

While with snail post office only such services by mail were meant still some years ago, which lay the substantially over average hour of delivery, the term generalized itself in the last years. It designates today each kind of traditional letter post, whereby the transmission speed is set in relation for the transmission of a E-Mail.

Since mail in English both E-Mail and letter post can mean, one there usually speaks snail mail (also s-mail) of regular mail or, if letter post is meant.

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