メール便

Japanese

Kanji in this term
便
びん Grade: 4

Etymology

From メール (mēru) +‎ 便 (bin, “mail, letter”). The initial portion is from English mail.

Noun

メール便(びん) • (mēru bin) 

1. a private courier service that delivers small packages or documents to a recipient's mailbox
   • 2015 December 11, Tomomi Fujita, “Kuro-neko mēru bin ga haishin ni natta ima, mottomo otokuna haisō sabisu wa dore? [Now that Kuro-neko mēru bin has ended, what is the most economical delivery service?]”, in Nifty‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 May 2018:

     2015(にせんじゅうご)年(ねん)3(さん)月(がつ)末(まつ)で廃(はい)止(し)となったクロネコメール便(びん)。重(じゅう)量(りょう)は1(いち)kg(キログラム)以(いな)内(い)、Ａ(エー)４(よん)封(ふう)筒(とう)で厚(あつ)さ1(いち)cm(センチメートル)以(い)内(ない)ならば82(はちじゅうに)円(えん)、厚(あつ)さ2(に)cm(センチメートル)までなら164(ひゃくろくじゅうよん)円(えん)で荷(に)物(もつ)を発(はっ)送(そう)できるという格(かく)安(やす)サービスだっただけに、途(と)方(ほう)にくれた人(ひと)も多(おお)かっただろう。

     Nisenjūgo-nen sangatsu matsu de haishi to natta Kuro-neko mēru bin. Jūryō wa ichi-kiroguramu inai, Ē-yon fūtō de atsusa ichi-senchimētoru inai naraba hachijūni-en, atsusa ni-senchimētoru made nara hyakurokujūyon-en de nimotsu o hassō dekiru to iu kakuyasu sābisu datta dake ni, tohō ni kureta hito mo ōkatta darō.

     At the end of March 2015 Kuro-neko ended its mail-bin service. The service shipped packages under 1 kg, A4-size envelopes up to 1 cm thick for ¥82 and up to 2 cm for ¥164, and many people were at a loss.

   • 2018 October 8 (last accessed), Baby Alice shop, “Mēru bin ni tsuite [Regarding mail-bin]”, in Rakuten‎^[2]:

     メール便(びん)の特(とく)性(せい)上(うえ)、商(しょう)品(ひん)をお客(きゃく)様(さま)のポストに入(い)れた時(じ)点(てん)で配(はい)達(たつ)完(かん)了(りょう)となるため、直(ちょく)接(せつ)お手(て)元(もと)に届(とど)いたかどうかという確(かく)認(にん)が出(で)来(き)ません。

     Mēru bin no tokusei ue, shōhin o o-kyaku-sama no posuto ni ireta jiten de haitatsu kanryō to naru tame, chokusetsu o-temoto ni todoita ka dōka toiu kakunin ga dekimasen.

     A peculiarity of mail-bin is that because delivery is considered complete once the article has been put into the customer's post box, you cannot confirm whether or not it has directly reached their hands.