mail quotes

This is the Night Mail crossing the border Bringing the cheque and the postal order.

-W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
  'Night Mail', pt.1, written to accompany a documentary by the Post Office Film Unit.

Beauteous the fleet before the gale; Beauteous the multitudes in mail, Rank'd arms and crested heads: Beauteous the garden's umbrage mild, Walk, water, meditated wild, And all the bloomy beds.

- Christopher Smart
  A Song to David, stanza 78.

   What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

- George Will
  Of entitlement programs. ABC TV broadcast,19 Sep.