What is snail mail? Why is it called snail mail?

Answer 1

A letter received in the mail. It's called that because it is much slower than email or IM'ing or texting.

Answer 2

Snail mail is regular old US post office letters. It's called that because it's so slow compared to IM, email and computer mail systems which are instantaneous.

Answer 3

Snail mail is the mail you get from the post office. Its called snail mail because it is so slow.

Answer 4

snail mail is mail that goes in a mailbox carried by a mail deliver.

Its slower than email or iming so is snail mail

Answer 5

Post mailing is called snail mail.. think the answer is obvious.. You post a letter today it will reach ur neighbour next week

Answer 6

Q1. Snail mail is mail sent by snail.
Q2. Since it is sent by snail, you cannot call it by any other name.

Answer 7

Snail mail is what you find in those weird little boxes you find outside your house.
The connection with snails is not solely due to the notoriously slow speed at which they locomote, but also because of the suspicious-smelling slime you sometimes find it covered in.

Answer 8

snail mail is the messages snails send to each other
that's what those antennas are for on the top of the head

here is one I intercepted
(I've translated it from the snail language):

will you please slow down i want to talk to you

Answer 9

Conventional mail as opposed to e-mail. Because its a thousand times slower.

Answer 10

delivered by the slow snails from the post office