駅えき逓てい

noun

postal delivery; mail service

Historical term for the delivery of packages and postal service, especially in the context of early modern Japan's relay system. Not used in contemporary Japanese; modern equivalents are 郵便 (ゆうびん) or 宅配 (たくはい).

• 駅えき逓てい制せい度どは、江え戸ど時じ代だいから明めい治じ初しょ期きにかけて重じゅう要ような通つう信しん手しゅ段だんだった。

  The postal relay system was an important means of communication from the Edo period through the early Meiji era.