mail

system for transporting documents and other small packages
Product service Q49845
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mail

Summary

mail is a service[1]. mail ranks in the top 4% of service entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,454 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • mail's instance of is recorded as service[3].
  • mail is a type of transport[4].
  • mail is a type of industry[5].
  • mail's Commons category is recorded as Post[6].
  • mail's industry is recorded as postal sector[7].
  • mail's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Postal systems[8].
  • mail's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • mail's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • mail's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11].
  • mail's described by source is recorded as Draft History of Qing[12].
  • mail's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • mail's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • mail's topic has template is recorded as Template:Postal system[15].
  • mail's International Standard Industrial Classification code Rev.4 is recorded as 5310[16].
  • mail's different from is recorded as Q1224027[17].
  • mail's history of topic is recorded as timeline of postal history[18].
  • mail's history of topic is recorded as postal history[19].
  • mail's studied by is recorded as postal history[20].
  • mail's practiced by is recorded as postal agent[21].
  • mail's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for mail include email[23], a service on Internet[24]; voicemail[25]; and World Post Day[26], a world day[27], founded in 1969[28].

Why It Matters

mail ranks in the top 4% of service entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,454 views/month).[2] mail has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] mail is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for mail include email[23], a service on Internet[24]; voicemail[25]; and World Post Day[26], a world day[27], founded in 1969[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from Q1224027
    Subclass of
    Practiced by postal agent
    Studied by postal history
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 6557, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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