What is "special delivery"

n. 1 (context uncountable sometimes hyphenated when used attributively English) A kind of postal service in which, for an extra fee, letters and packages are delivered in a highly expedited manner by a special courier. 2 (context countable English) A particular posted letter or package which is delivered in this manner; a particular act of conveying such letters or packages to one or more recipients. 3 (context countable and uncountable idiomatic by extension sometimes humorous English) Something—whether desirable or undesirable—which is intentionally given to a specific individual or which an individual receives rapidly and unexpectedly; the personalized, direct quality of the transmission of such an item.

n. mail that is delivered by a special carrier (for an additional charge)

Special Delivery is the second studio album by southern rock band 38 Special, released in 1978.

Special Delivery may refer to:

• Special delivery (postal service), a postal service for urgent postal packets

Special Delivery was a short 1946 propaganda film produced by the United States Army Air Forces about Operation Crossroads, when Bikini atoll was, in 1946, evacuated to be the subject of two (three planned) atomic bomb tests on a large assembled fleet.

Special Delivery is a 1978 animated short film made at the National Film Board of Canada which won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film as well as first prize at Animafest Zagreb. It was directed by Eunice Macaulay and John Weldon. An English and a French-language version were released.

Special Delivery is the twenty second solo studio album by American country artist, Dottie West. The album was released in 1979 on Liberty Records and was produced by Randy Goodrum and Brent Maher. The album came on the heels of two chart-topping West duet albums with Kenny Rogers and reestablished West as a major solo artist, becoming West's most successful solo album since 1967 thanks in part to three top 15 country hits on the collection, including " A Lesson in Leavin'", the first solo number one record in West's 20-year career.

Special Delivery is a 1922 American comedy film directed by Roscoe Arbuckle. It was Arbuckle's first film as a director, albeit uncredited, following his acquittal of the manslaughter of Virginia Rappe. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art.

Special Delivery is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Roscoe Arbuckle (as "William Goodrich"), starring Eddie Cantor, written by Cantor, John F. Goodrich and George Marion Jr. (with Larry Semon, uncredited). It was released by Paramount Pictures.

Special Delivery (1997) is a romantic novel written by Danielle Steel.

Special Delivery is a 2008 television film distributed by MarVista Entertainment. The film first aired on September 1, 2008 in the United Kingdom on Sky Movies and on December 21, 2008 in the United States. The lead characters in the film are played by Brenda Song and Lisa Edelstein. Robert Gant also stars. The film aired on the Diva TV network in the summer of 2010 and was available for the international marketplace in the fall of 2009. The film was released on DVD internationally on February 13, 2009.

Special Delivery is the first web hidden camera show, aired on MySpaceTV and produced by Avalon Television. The show puts unsuspecting delivery men and women in hilarious and outrageous situations. The series episodes have been viewed over 5 million times, and both Frito Lay and Jack Link's have come aboard as sponsors.

The most popular webisode of this series to date is "Midget Stripper" with over 1.4 million views.

"Special Delivery" is a science fiction short story written by Damon Knight. It first appeared in the April 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction and has been reprinted a number of times, in Operation Future (1955), Far Out (1961), and The Best of Damon Knight (1976).

Special Delivery is a 2000 television film starring Andy Dick. It premiered on Fox Family on their 25 Days of Christmas programming block.

"Special Delivery" is the debut single by Bad Boy rapper G. Dep. It's the 1st single off the debut album, " Child of the Ghetto".

Special Delivery is a 1976 film directed by Paul Wendkos. It stars Bo Svenson and Cybill Shepherd.

Special Delivery (also known as Vom Himmel gefallen (in German)) is a 1955 American- West German comedy film, directed by John Brahm. It stars Joseph Cotten and Eva Bartok. Special Delivery was filmed simultaneously in an English and German language version.

Special Delivery was a weekend anthology series carried during weekend afternoons on Nickelodeon, beginning in 1980 and lasting until 1993, when the network's original programming output was deemed sufficient to discontinue the block. Special Delivery mainly carried a variety of productions for children purchased by Nickelodeon, including live-action and animated programming and sports specials. Much of this programming was made up of children-focused made-for-TV movies produced in Canada in the 1970s and 80s, short films originally made for the ABC Afterschool Special and CBS Schoolbreak Special anthology series, and some unsold television pilots which were adapted to an hour-long timeslot.