mail route
Postal delivery course
A mail route is the designated path a postal carrier follows to deliver mail, covering a specific set of addresses in sequence.
Rural routes may span miles of countryside while urban routes concentrate on city blocks.
The term also applies to historical postal roads and the paths of mail-carrying vehicles: He's been on the same mail route for fifteen years.
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- postal workerOne who delivers mail
- postmanMail delivery worker
- carrierOne that transports
- letterboxPostal delivery receptacle
stamps · parcels · truck · sorting · neighborhood · doorstep · front porch · walking · mailbag · address · zip code · rural · suburban · curbside · packages · slot · uniform · daily
- mailletter, letters, envelope, postcard, stamp
- postal servicepost office, sorting machine, stamps, stamp, letter carriers
- postal termsstamps, zip codes, stamp, stamped, postal codes
- mail deliverypostman, postal worker, letter, package, parcel
- routesroad, path, highway, freeway, trail
- postal historystamps, postmarks, postmaster, postage, postmark
mobility vs. fixedness
mail routepost office
Public mail facility
sorting facility · distribution center · central hub · mailroom
mail, route, mails, mailed, mailing, mailer, mailman, mailbox, email