special delivery

1. 1.

   mail that is delivered by a special carrier (for an additional charge)

   Broadermail

Questions about special delivery

What does special delivery mean?

special delivery means "mail that is delivered by a special carrier (for an additional charge)".

Is special delivery a common word?

special delivery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.