premail

present singular third person premails · participle present premailing · participle past premailed · past premailed

1. To contact by mail in advance.

   Use Premailing Notification / The use of a brief letter, postcard, or telephone call immediately before mailing the confirmation generally tends to increase responses.

   1984, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Confirmation of accounts receivable, page 29

   1 more example

   So our first step in the study of consumer attitudes toward product quality was to premail questionnaires to the principal shopper in a carefully selected, nationally distributed sample of homes.

   1977, The Nielsen Researcher, page 13