Sentence examples for heavy parcel from inspiring English sources

The heavy parcel of paper, dangling from Sugar's fist, bumps against Caroline's thigh, hard as a block of wood.

When I drove to the Stanford post office and collected the heavy parcel with thick brown-paper packaging, I knew by its heft what it was, even before I saw the Polish stamps.

However, the prospect of automated aircraft being allowed to carry heavy parcels along crowded city streets still seems distant.At first drones' main civilian uses, AUVSI predicts, will be in agriculture, followed distantly by public safety.

The airline, citing seniority, did not permit an injured cargo handler who could no longer lift heavy parcels to extend his temporary stay in a less taxing mailroom position.

But only in Alaska do packages weighing at least 453kg – 421kg above the heaviest parcel post box allowed elsewhere – count as a universal service.

In an area dense with delivery addresses, the autonomous drones could be set on their way to ferry small packages while the van's driver delivers heavier parcels to the rest of the neighborhood.

Large parcel owners mowed a smaller proportion of their parcels.

Marie, a mother of three who delivers in the Greater Manchester area, gets 48p per parcel and packet, 85p for a heavy package and £1 for anything defined as heavy and large.

He was holding a squarish, heavy-looking parcel.

Being a postie is really different at Christmas time: the mail gets a lot bigger and heavier with parcels, Christmas cards and brochures.

Postal financial services are by far the most profitable activity of Swiss Post, which suffers heavy losses from its parcel delivery and only marginal profits from letter delivery operations.