fourth-class

fourth-class(2) {adv.}

By fourth-class mail.

How did the company mail the package? Fourth-class.

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[fourth class] {n.} A class of mail that is not sealed and weighs a pound or more, that includes things that are bought and sold and sent in the mail, […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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