The phrase "a time when mail" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period or occasion related to the sending or receiving of mail.
Example: "I often think back to a time when mail was delivered by horseback, and communication took days instead of seconds."
Alternatives: "an era when mail" or "a period when mail".
Royal Mail claimed that the action undermined the postal industry at a time when mail volumes were already plummeting by almost 10% year-on-year.
Between 1872 and 1926, it owned no stores, operating strictly on a mail-order -- not even phone-order -- basis in a time when mail order still felt breathtakingly swift and somehow adventuresome.
Also problematic is the fact that the program hitches its wagon to traditional mail — mailing donation requests with seals, whose purpose is to adorn holiday cards — at a time when mail is faltering.
Indeed there was a time when junk mail came flying through the letterbox at my house like hail, shouting messages like "You've Won £50,000!" "You are the winner, claim your prize now!" "Free holiday in Florida for you and your Family!" and, the first few times, I, like every other gullible, greedy person, would tear them open, clamouring to get my hands on the goodies.
The launch comes at a time when Yahoo Mail has stagnated in its growth: the company says that it now has 227.8 million monthly active users with some 26 billion emails sent daily, but that user size is only about two million more than it had a year ago.
THERE was a time when e-mail was hailed as the killer app of the Internet, the medium that would change the way people communicate.
But, in a move which proved a stroke of near-genius at a time when direct-mail was in its infancy, he and two close associates organised a postal campaign for a body they named "the National Congressional Club".
But then, this is a time when e-mail messages, hip-hop slang, and a "decider" president who said that "childrens do learn" are chipping away at good grammar.
At a time when e-mail and many other forms of electronic communication are essentially free, wireless carriers are still charging as much as 20 cents to send a text message to a phone, and another 20 cents to receive it.
At a time when conventional e-mail was still seen as novel, Mr. Balsillie had to convince carriers like Verizon that a wireless e-mail service from an unknown Canadian company was a viable business proposition.
At a time when many e-mail users are grappling with how to reduce the amount of solicitations, commonly known as spam, that they receive over the Internet, an award has been devised for an e-mail pitch that rises above the others.
