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Louis, Missouri, to Henderson, New York, a distance of 1,290 km on which he carried a mailbag entrusted to him by the American Express Company. John Wise piloted an unofficial balloon post flight that took place on July 17, 1859, from St. Wise ascends on the first United States balloon airmail from Lafayette, Indiana, in 1859.ĭuring the first aerial flight in North America by balloon on January 9, 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. Domestic air mail became obsolete in 1975 as a distinct extra fee service, and international air mail in 1995, when the USPS began transporting all First Class long-distance intercity mail by air on a routine basis.

Army Air Forces temporarily took over the routes-with disastrous results-when all CAM contracts were summarily cancelled by President Franklin D. The exclusive transportation of flown mails by government operated aircraft came to an end in 1926 under the provisions of the "Kelly Act" which required the USPOD to transition to contracting with commercial air carriers to fly them over Contract Air Mail (CAM) routes to be established by the Department, although during the first half of 1934 the U.S. Air Mail was formally established as a new class of service by the Post Office Department on May 15, 1918, with the inauguration of the Washington–Philadelphia–New York route for which the first of special Air Mail stamps were issued.

AIRMAIL ZERO SERIES

Letters and parcels intended for air mail service were marked as "Via Air Mail" (or equivalent), appropriately franked, and assigned to any then existing class or sub-class of the Air Mail service.Īfter an intermittent series of government sponsored experimental flights between 19, domestic U.S. Air Mail was a service class of the United States Post Office Department (USPOD) and its successor United States Postal Service (USPS) delivering mail flown by aircraft within the United States and its possessions and territories. PHILA." "– FIRST TRIP" "PHILA." (Type: USPOD CDS w/killer bars)Īirmails of the United States or U.S. Air Mail stamp, the 24 Cent "Jenny"(C-3).

Shake the rum, honey and lime juice with ice and strain into a chilled champagne flute (or a Collins glass, if that's your thing).Cover flown on the first day of scheduled Air Mail Service in the U.S.

If you’re less confident in the ingredients and how it’s all coming together, you might want to throw it long over a few cubes of hard, quality ice.Ĭlose the laptop, abandon inbox zero - it’s an elegant drink for the afternoon and early evening of a hot day. This method, we’ve found, is great if your bartender knows what they’re doing and is using quality ingredients - made with good champagne, and mixed just so, you may not want the additional dilution that comes from serving it over ice. And these days you’ll more often find the drink served up in a champagne flute glass, as we’ve pictured here.

Just as electronic mail became email, the Airmail’s moniker evolved, too. Spelled as two discrete words, the Air Mail originally called for gold Bacardi rum, and was served long over ice. The cocktail has its origins, apparently, in a Bacardi pamphlet from the mid 1930s titled ‘Bacardi and Its Many Uses’. Rum, lime, honey - and a little champagne to top things off. Like mail itself, the Airmail cocktail has evolved in the years since 1930.