reception vs special delivery

reception

noun
  • The act of receiving. 

  • A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone. 

  • The school year, or part thereof, between preschool and Year 1, when children are introduced to formal education. 

  • The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture. 

  • The act or ability to receive radio or similar signals. 

  • The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received. 

  • A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc. 

  • The act of catching a pass. 

  • Reading viewed as the active process of receiving a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps, such as ideation, comprehension, reconstruction, interpretation. 

special delivery

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words reception and special delivery occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )