Sentence examples for instead of mailing from inspiring English sources

New technologies in health care always require a reassessment of how patients and doctors best relate to one another, a judgment call on whether the relationship, and care, is helped or harmed by e-mailing instead of calling, updating Web sites instead of mailing out notifications, blogging and posting updates to Twitter instead of publishing in medical journals.

Perhaps we should simply stack these friendship cards instead of mailing them, thus warding off unfriendly missiles.

She said many of her fellow residents felt compelled to vote on the spot when the poll workers came instead of mailing their ballots.

And the fellow-student who picked up the dropped card &, instead of mailing it, handed it to the local mimeographer seems guilty of a failure of gallantry.

Instead of mailing out stacks of DVDs this year, several companies have created free, password-protected Web sites where they are streaming episodes for voters.

Even the Emily Post Institute, the champion of traditional etiquette, has deemed it acceptable to e-mail holiday greetings instead of mailing them, saying that electronic cards are "definitely greener and less expensive".

"If they were put in backpacks instead of mailed, that in itself guarantees lots of people will never see them".

And instead of mailed fliers, the company will send shoppers a 96-page catalog each month with a more magazinelike presentation.

We chose the telephone interview instead of mailed questionnaires given the socioeconomic status of the overall cohort members [ 30], and instead of the face-to-face interview because of logistic procedures and cost [ 31].

Ads had to inform consumers about the existence of some new invention, then convince them that their lives would be better if they used, for example, cars instead of wagons, telephones instead of mail and electric light instead of oil lamps.

But instead of mail, it's designed to carry a laptop.