'postal item' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to any physical item that is sent through the mail, such as a letter, package, or magazine. For example, "I just mailed a small postal item to my grandmother."
One week later the second postal item containing the invitation letter, informed consent form, information to family members, contact information and information about what to do if they agreed to attend was sent.
If you are being watched (surveillance), give the postal item to someone else whom you can trust and you know will not be followed or intercepted, such as a relative or friend.
Special delivery – A man stole thousands of postal items by changing the address of the corporate headquarters of UPS to his own home, police in Chicago allege.
A bit like None John Filsak (Letters, 6 April), I receive postal items with part of the address "London has no county" because this is what I enter when asked to complete a web form that does not believe it is possible not to live in a county.
Mail Rail was approved by an Act of Parliament a century ago, and during its heyday its driverless trains carried 12 million postal items daily on the line stretching from East End's Whitechapel to west London's Paddington.
As an Australian Post employee said back in 2011 — with 5 billion postal items traveling through Australia every year, there's not a lot they can do.
As an Australian Post employee said back in 2011 with 5 billion postal items traveling through Australia every year, there's not a lot they can do.
The remaining women received a postal five item screening questionnaire (web appendix 1) asking about vaginal bulging, pelvic heaviness, urinary incontinence, and vaginal splinting to assist micturition or defecation.
If individual consent was given twelve weeks after the patients death they received a 15 item postal questionnaire.
Following the death of a patient referred to the service and eligible for this study, a 12 item postal questionnaire was sent to the district nurse responsible for the care of the individual concerned.
There are also a few items concerning President Lowell that concern Harvard University and are not related to the issue of the postal Commission [see items (4) and (8)].
