Snail mail
<messaging> (Or "snailmail", "smail" from "US Mail" via "USnail"; "paper mail").
Bits of dead tree sent via the postal service as opposed to electronic mail.
One's postal address is, correspondingly, a "snail (mail) address".
There have even been parody USnail posters and stamps made.
The variant "paper-net" is a hackish way of referring to the postal service, comparing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
Sig blocks sometimes include a "Paper-Net:" header just before the sender's postal address; common variants of this are "Papernet" and "P-Net".
Note that the standard netiquette guidelines discourage this practice as a waste of bandwidth, since netters are quite unlikely to casually use postal addresses and if they really wanted your snail mail address they could always ask for it by e-mail.
Compare voice-net, sneakernet, P-mail.
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