 Airmail imprint on an envelope (Thailand) Airmail (or air mail) is mail that is transported by aircraft. It typically arrives more quickly than surface mail, and usually costs more to send. Airmail may be the only option for sending mail to some destinations, such as overseas, if the mail cannot wait the time it would take to arrive by ship, sometimes weeks. Image File history File linksMetadata Airmail. ...
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In June 2006 the United States Postal Service formally trademarked Air Mail (two words with capital first letters) along with Pony Express.[1] USPS and Usps redirect here. ...
The Bass Red Triangle, was the first trademark registered in Britain in 1876. ...
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A postal service may sometimes opt to transport some regular mail by air, perhaps because other transportation is unavailable, but it is usually impossible to know this by examining an envelope, and such items are not considered "airmail". Generally, airmail would take a guaranteed and scheduled flight and arrive first, while air-speeded mail would wait for a non-guaranteed and merely available flight and would arrive later then normal airmail.
Names A letter sent via airmail may be called an aerogramme, aerogram, air letter or simply airmail letter. However, aerogramme and aerogram may also refer to a specific kind of airmail letter which is its own envelope; see aerogram. GB Christmas Aerogram (date?) An aerogram is a thin piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter for transit via airmail, in which the letter and envelope are one and the same. ...
The choice to send a letter by air is indicated either by a handwritten note on the envelope, by the use of special labels called airmail etiquettes, or by the use of specially-marked envelopes. Special postage stamps may also be available, or required; the rules vary in different countries. Front of an envelope mailed in the U.S. in 1906 contains postage stamp and address. ...
An airmail etiquette, often shortened to just etiquette, is an adhesive label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail. ...
A selection of Hong Kong postage stamps A postage stamp is evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services. ...
The study of airmail is known as aerophilately. Aerophilately is the branch of philately that specializes in the study of airmail. ...
History Specific instances of a letter being delivered by air long predate the introduction of Airmail as a regularly scheduled service available to the gneral public.
Although homing pigeons had long been used to send messages (an activity known as pigeon mail), the first mail to be carried by an air vehicle was on 7 January 1785, on a balloon flight from Dover to France near Calais. Homing pigeon The homing pigeon is a variety of domesticated Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) that has been selectively bred to be able to find its way home over extremely long distances. ...
The homing pigeon is a variety of domesticated Rock Dove (Columba livia) that has been selectively bred to be able to find its way home over extremely long distances. ...
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1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
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Calais (Kales in Dutch) is a town in northern France, located at 50°57N 1°52E. It is in the département of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ...
During the first balloon flight in North America in 1793, from Philadelphia to Deptford, New Jersey, Jean-Pierre Blanchard carried a personal letter from George Washington to be delivered to the owner of whatever property Blanchard happened to land on, making the flight the first delivery of air mail in the United States. Year 1793 (MDCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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Jean-Pierre Blanchard (aka Jean Pierre François Blanchard), (7 July 1753 – 7 March 1809) was a French inventor, most remembered a pioneer in aviation and ballooning. ...
George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799)[1] led Americas Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. ...
The first official air mail delivery in the United States took place on August 17, 1859, when John Wise piloted a balloon starting in Lafayette, Indiana with a destination of New York. Weather issues forced him to land in Crawfordsville, Indiana and the mail reached its final destination via train. In 1959 the U.S. Postal Service issued a 7 cent stamp commemorating the event.[2] is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1859 (MDCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
John Wise John Wise (24 February 1808 - 28 September 1879) was a pioneer in the field of ballooning. ...
Lafayette (IPA: ) is a city in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA, 63 miles (101 km) northwest of Indianapolis. ...
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Crawfordsville is a city in Montgomery County, Indiana, United States. ...
Balloons also carried mail out of Paris and Metz during the Franco-Prussian War (1870), drifting over the heads of the Germans besieging those cities. Balloon mail was also carried on an 1877 flight in Nashville, Tennessee. This article is about the capital of France. ...
City flag City coat of arms Motto: Si paix dedans, paix dehors (French: If peace inside, peace outside) Cathedral St. ...
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The introduction of the airplane in 1903 generated immediate interest in using them for mail transport, and the first official flight took place on 18 February 1911 in Allahabad, India to Naini, India, when Henri Pequet carried 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km. Airplane and Aeroplane redirect here. ...
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Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
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Naini is a satellite locality/township of the city of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. ...
Henri Pequet (born 1888) was a pilot in the first official airmail flight on February 18, 1911. ...
The first aimail flight in the U.S. took place in Albany, Georgia. U.S Army planes began regular airmail flights between New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. in 1918. The site of the first continuously scheduled air mail service is marked by a plaque in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. The first nighttime airmail flight was made in 1921 from Omaha, Nebraska to Chicago, by aviator James Knight. Nickname: Location in the state of Georgia Country United States State Georgia County Dougherty Government - Mayor Willie Adams, Jr. ...
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Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...
Looking north from West Potomac Park across the Tidal Basin, showing cherry trees in flower West Potomac Park adjoins the National Mall in Washington, DC. It includes the parkland that extends south of the Reflecting Pool, from the Lincoln Memorial to the grounds of the Washington Monument. ...
Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...
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In Australia, the first air mail contract was won by the fledgling Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services (QANTAS), commencing in November 1922. Many other flights, such as that of the Vin Fiz Flyer suffered crashes and some ended in complete disaster, but many countries had operating services by the 1920s. Qantas (Qantas Airways Limited) (pronounced ) is the name and callsign of the national airline of Australia. ...
Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Vin Fiz Flyer was an early airplane that in 1911 became the first to cross the North American continent by air. ...
The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...
The 1928 book So Disdained by Nevil Shute - a novel based on this author's deep interest in and thorough knowlege of aviation - includes a monologue by a veteran pilot, preserving the atmosphere of these pioneering times: "We used to fly on the Paris route, from Hounslow to Le Bourget and get through as best as you could. Later we moved on to Croydon. (...) We carried the much advertised Air Mails. That meant the machines had to fly whether there were passengers to be carried or not. It was left to the discertion of the pilot whether or not the flight should be canceleld in bad weather; the pilots were dead keen on flying in the most impossible conditions. Sanderson got killed this way at Douinville. And all he had in the machine was a couple of picture postcards from trippers in Paris, sent to their families as a curiosity. That was the Air Mail. No passengers or anything - just the mail"[3]. Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
So Disdained is the second published novel by British author, Nevil Shute. ...
Nevil Shute (London, January 17, 1899 – Melbourne, January 12, 1960) (full name Nevil Shute Norway) was one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century. ...
, Hounslow is the principal town of the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. ...
Le Bourget is a commune of the Seine-Saint-Denis département in France. ...
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 A cover carried on a 1932 first flight in the north woods of Canada, with a cachet and franked with both a regular and an airmail stamp. Since stamp collecting was already a well-developed hobby by this time, collectors followed developments in airmail service closely, and went to some trouble to find out about the first flights between various destinations, and to get letters onto them. The authorities often used special cachets on the covers, and in many cases the pilot would sign them as well. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x582, 171 KB) Front of Canadian first flight cover of 1932, scanned by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages link to this file: Aerophilately User:Stan Shebs/Gallery/Philately ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x582, 171 KB) Front of Canadian first flight cover of 1932, scanned by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages link to this file: Aerophilately User:Stan Shebs/Gallery/Philately ...
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First Flight is the title of a Star Trek: Enterprise television episode from season two. ...
In philately, a cachet is a picture or design, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage on the envelope, postcard, postal card or other cover, that can be purely decorative, or commemorative. ...
In philately, a cover is an envelope or package, typically with stamps that have been cancelled. ...
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The first stamps designated specifically for airmail were issued by Italy in 1917, and used on experimental flights; they were produced by overprinting special delivery stamps. Austria also overprinted stamps for airmail in March 1918, soon followed by the first definitive stamp for airmail, issued by the United States in May 1918. An overprint is the addition of text (and sometimes graphics) to the face of a postage stamp after it has been printed. ...
1944 13c Special Delivery stamp Special Delivery is a postal service for letters and/or packages of particular importance. ...
A definitive postage stamp is a regular issue stamp that is part of a definitive issue or definitive series consisting of a range of denominations sufficient to cover all postal rates usefully. ...
The dirigibles of the 1920s and 1930s also carried airmail, known as dirigible mail. The German zeppelins were especially visible in this role, and many countries issued special stamps for use on zeppelin mail. USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight, November 2, 1931 An airship or dirigible is a buoyant lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ...
The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...
The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known as the World Depression. ...
This is an article about Zeppelin airships. ...
Cover sent from Chemnitz, Germany to Sausalito, California on the first North American flight of the Hindenburg, 6-9 May 1936. ...
In the 1950s, general enthusiasm for rockets led to experiments with rocket mail. There was a single use of Missile Mail by the United States in 1959; see: USS Barbero. None of the various schemes went into production use, although many souvenir covers exist. A number of spacecraft have also carried space mail, sometimes in rather large quantities, all for promotional purposes. The study of these is known as astrophilately. The 1950s decade refers to the years 1950 to 1959 inclusive. ...
This article is about vehicles powered by rocket engines. ...
A Regulus cruise missile was used for one attempt to deliver mail. ...
USS Barbero (SS/A/G-317) was a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy, named for a family of fishes commonly called surgeon fish. ...
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This cover was one of thousands flown on space shuttle mission STS-8 and sold to the public after landing. ...
In the United States, domestic airmail long carried a higher rate, but in 1975 the United States Postal Service eliminated domestic air mail rates, deciding (coincident with the rise in the one-ounce first class domestic rate from ten to thirteen cents) that all domestic first class mail would be delivered by the speediest method of transportation. USPS and Usps redirect here. ...
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See also An airmail etiquette, often shortened to just etiquette, is an adhesive label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail. ...
The Air Mail Scandal is the name that the American press of the 1930s gave to the results of a meeting (the so-called Spoils Conference) of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown and the executives of the top airlines, effectively dividing among them the air mail routes, and to the...
L-Mail, or Lmail is short for letter mail, and is a method of sending a real physical letter via an Internet web page. ...
A mailplane is an aircraft used for carrying mail. ...
Nellie Brimberry (?-?), of Albany, Georgia, became the first Postmistress of a major United States Post Office in 1910. ...
References - Richard McP. Cabeen, Standard Handbook of Stamp Collecting (Collectors Club, 1979), pp. 207-221
- ^ USPS News Release #06-043 (June 20, 2006) U.S. Postal Service Expands Licensing Program
- ^ article on rootsweb about 1859 balloon mail flight
- ^ Nevil Shute, "So Disdained", London, 1928, Ch. 1
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Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
External links - UKweekly.com article on early airmail service
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