penny post
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English
Noun
penny post (plural penny posts)
- (historical) Any of various postal systems in which a letter could be sent for the price of one penny.
- 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
- The penny-post is, commonly, an institution through which you seriously offer a man that penny for his thoughts which is so often safely offered in jest.