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reply card

noun

  1. a usually postage-paid postcard or coupon that can be mailed back to the sender to place an order, request information, or the like.


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Example Sentences

Chasing down R.S.V.P.s was a particular headache, and she claims credit for inventing “this ghastly thing called the reply card” to solve the problem.

Judging by the date of the circular the reply card was probably issued the middle of December, 1882, although it was not reported in the stamp journals until the next February.

As was to be expected, the reply card followed with the same change in the stamps, but no particular notice seems to have been taken of it in the contemporary magazines.

The Philatelic Monthly for July, 1892, noted that the reply card had appeared in the latest type, but gave no color; probably the item was borrowed from the French Journal without credit.

In its issue for 30th May, 1896, the Monthly Journal chronicles the receipt of the reply card in black on a very smooth buff card.

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