Permit mail is anything sent through the postal service where postage is paid by a post office issued permit. No postage stamp is affixed to letters sent by permit mail.
The post office will bill the sender based on the number of items sent, their weight, etc.
Advantages of permit mail:
- The sender does not have to affix postage stamps to the mail
- The sender does not have to safeguard postage stamps from employee theft
- The post office does not have to cancel any stamps, thus requiring less work to deliver the mail.
Famous quotes containing the words permit and/or mail:
“Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.”
—St. Francis Of Assisi (c. 1182–1226)
“Always polite, fastidiously dressed in a linen duster and mask, he used to leave behind facetious rhymes signed “Black Bart, Po—8,” in mail and express boxes after he had finished rifling them.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)