rural delivery
Farm route service
Rural delivery is mail service to addresses in the countryside, where carriers travel routes to reach scattered homes and farms rather than delivering to clustered street addresses.
The term dates from the late nineteenth century when postal systems began extending service beyond towns: rural free delivery, rural mail carrier.
Often abbreviated RFD (rural free delivery).
- postalOf mail service
- postal serviceNational mail delivery system
- road networkInterconnected system of streets
- farm countryAgricultural rural area
- mailboxContainer for delivered mail
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- mailletter, letters, mail, email, envelope
- postalmail, stamp, stamps, mail service, postal service
- postal servicepost office, mail, sorting machine, stamps, stamp
- postal termsstamps, zip codes, stamp, stamped, postal codes
- postal historystamps, postmarks, postmaster, postage, postmark
- postal systempost office, mailbox, stamp, stamps, envelope