mailing machine

noun

1. a machine that prepares mail for sending, as by addressing, stamping, weighing, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mailing machine¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

Elections Director Janine Eveler wrote in an email Friday to the county’s elections board that workers didn’t upload ballot information to a mailing machine, and ballots were never created nor sent on two days last month, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

From Washington Times

It might be inferred, perhaps, from the announcement in the Guide, that the activities of the mailing machine companies had induced the Canadian Post Office Department to cater to their convenience, as had been done in the United States, by issuing sheets of stamps, only purchaseable as such, in imperforate form.

From Project Gutenberg

Among the first things to attract the attention of this old-timer would be the web-perfecting press, capable of producing 25,000 impressions an hour, instead of the old hand press of 240 impressions an hour; the linotype machine, capable of setting 6,000 to 10,000 ems per hour, instead of the old hand compositor producing only 800 to 1,000 ems per hour, and the mailing machine, enabling one man to do the work of five or six under the old method.

From Project Gutenberg