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means A wrapped or boxed item packaged up for delivery, carrying goods from one place to another.

from From Old French 'parcelle,' a little piece or part, itself rooted in Latin 'particula' — a small portion of something bigger, the diminutive of 'pars' (part), the same root that gives us 'particle' and 'partial.' Originally a parcel was just a fragment or portion of a larger whole, like a parcel of land. Only later did it narrow to mean a wrapped bundle of goods sent through the post — the piece of the world now boxed up and addressed to you.