dead letter
noun [C] (MAIL)Definition
› a letter that cannot be delivered to the address written on it and cannot be returned to the person who sent it: the dead-letter officeThe postal system
(Definition of dead letter noun (MAIL) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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