For a start lets concentrate on the
"Mail Order" part of the term.
Mail order is a term which describes the buying of goods or services by mail delivery, usually by browsing through a catalogue.
The buyer places the order for the desired products with the merchant through some remote method.
Most things are available through mail order.
The start of the mail order concept.
According to The National Mail Order Association, Benjamin Franklin is believed to have been the first cataloguer in the United States. In 1744, he formulated the basic mail order concept when he produced the first catalogue, which sold scientific and academic books.
So as we see it the Mail-order concept originates from the Northern part of the North American continent namely The United States of America and Canada.
Aaron Montgomery Ward

Aaron Montgomery Ward (February 17, 1843 – December 7, 1913) was an American businessman notable for the invention of mail order.
The mail-order industry was started by Aaron Montgomery Ward in 1872 in Chicago.
Ward, a young traveling salesman of dry goods, was concerned over the plight of many rural Midwest Americans who were, he thought, being overcharged and under-served by many of the small town retailers on whom they had to rely for their general merchandise
The earliest surviving mail-order business, now known as Hammacher Schlemmer, was established by Alfred Hammacher in New York City in 1848. Offering mechanic's tools and builder's hardware, its first catalogue was published in 1881.
mail order pioneer.

The T. Eaton Co. Limited was once Canada's largest department store retailer. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an Irish immigrant. Eaton's grew to become a retail and social institution in Canada, with stores across the country, buying offices across the globe, and a catalogue that was found in the homes of most Canadians.
The first Eaton's catalogue was a 34-page booklet issued in 1884. As Eaton’s grew, so did the catalogue.
By 1920, Eaton's operated mail order warehouses in Winnipeg, Toronto and Moncton to serve its catalogue customers. Catalogue order offices were also established throughout the country, with the first opening in Oakville in 1916.
It then took a few years for the mail-order concept to cross the Atlantic back to the Old world.
Universal Stores was founded in 1900 as a mail order business in Manchester, England by Abraham, George and Jack Rose.
Before we start with the bride it is beneficial to note that in the past many (if not all) marriages were based upon what today we would call an arranged marriage normally arranged by a "Match Maker"
We now go to the imported
mail-order-bride issue.
Historically,
mail-order imported brides were women who listed themselves in catalogues and were selected by men for marriage. Sometimes the men and women involved were citizens of different countries, e.g. women from European countries moving to the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries, and sometimes they involved citizens of the same country.
Those women were considered pioneers.
Although historically,
mail-order imported brides came from well-developed areas to marry men in overseas colonies and frontier lands, the trend has reversed. Recently, the trend is perceived as one of women who live in developing countries seeking men in more developed countries.
It is my opinion that women that advertised themselves as available for marriage to men that they had not meet previously were not know as mail-order brides until the advent of Pathetic Correctness and the brigades of self opinionated feminazis and their lapdog new-men.
I do find the term
mail order bride insulting, and that is because it implies that the bride has been purchased the same way that someone would purchase an item from a mail order catalogue.
Now I wonder
Why is the term so one sided?
After all people that meet on the internet are both displaying themselves in an electronic catalogue.
Is it because the feminazis feel threatened? Answers to the above on a Postcard please.
The first of the conundrums.
- If a couple meet through the internet but they also live in the same place (town or city) then would the lady be considered to be a mail order bride?
And here is a different conundrum.
- A colleague of mine is married to a lady from the Philippines, he meet her in a bar in Japan (they were both working there but their meeting was not job related). And the query, is she a mail order bride, the reason that I ask is because she is from the Philippines and all Philippinas are considered to fit the criteria (given by the feminazis) of mail-order brides.
They now live in his country (In Europe).
And yet another conundrum.
- I meet my fiancée in a bar in Russia, she is Russian, I was working at the time in Russia.
Now we know that all Russian ladies that are married to foreigners automatically become mail order brides.
So when we marry does she automatically become "mail order".
We will live mostly in her country (Russia).