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:
“If I asked her master he’d give me a cask a day;
But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!
May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may
The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)
“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)