return to sender
Bounce it back
Return to sender is a postal instruction indicating mail should be sent back to its origin, typically because the addressee has moved, the address is wrong, or delivery was refused.
The phrase became iconic through the 1962 Elvis Presley song about rejected love letters.
More broadly, it describes anything sent back to where it came from: His apology came return to sender—she wouldn't even read it.
- undeliverableCannot be sent
- no such addressPostal return reason
- wrong addressIncorrect recipient location
- mailboxContainer for delivered mail
- postageFee for mailing
insufficient postage · address · Elvis · Elvis Presley · stamp · certified mail · rejected · refused · bounced · parcel · letter · forwarding · dead letter · junk mail · post office · mail room · envelope · courier
- undeliverable maildead letter, undeliverable mail, lost mail, address unknown, insufficient postage
- mailletter, letters, mail, email, envelope
- postalmail, mail delivery, stamp, stamps, mail service
- postal termsstamps, zip codes, stamp, stamped, postal codes
- postal historystamps, postmarks, postmaster, postage, postmark
- logistics problemsshipping delay, late delivery, lost shipment, delayed delivery, supply shortage
return to senderredirect
Send in new direction
reroute · send on · pass along · hold for pickup · keep
return to senderaccepted
Formally agreed to
received · kept · delivered · signed for · claimed
return to sendermessage received
Communication successfully understood
accepted · welcomed · acknowledged · taken to heart · embraced
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