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On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:22:18 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> This is crossing over into the murky world of collective nouns.
> (And yes, I consider "e-mail" to be such, just as the "mail" from which
> it was derived - so I bristle when I hear someone talk about receiving
> "an e-mail" when he/she would never look in his/her physical box for "a
> mail".)

What is the e-mail equivalent of 'I received a letter in the mail'?