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mail cover

mail cover noun: an investigative technique in which the United States Postal Service, acting at the request of a law enforcement agency, records information from the outside of letters and parcels before they are delivered and sends that information to the requesting agency.

Noun

mail cover

  1. (US) An investigative technique in which the United States Postal Service, acting at the request of a law enforcement agency, records information from the outside of letters and parcels before they are delivered and sends that information to the requesting agency.

Questions about mail cover

What does mail cover mean?
Mail cover means an investigative technique in which the United States Postal Service, acting at the request of a law enforcement agency, records information from the outside of letters and parcels before they are delivered and sends that information to the requesting agency.
What part of speech is mail cover?
Mail cover is a noun.

Words near mail cover in the dictionary

  1. mail cars
  2. mail clerk
  3. mail clerks
  4. mail code
  5. mail codes
  6. mail cover
  7. mail drop
  8. mail flag
  9. mail fraud
  10. mail frauds
  11. mail it in

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