Airmail

The airmail is the division of a postal administration in charge of the transport of the mail by Avion starting from the Entre-deux-guerres in Europe. More expensive, this means of forwarding justified postal labels and specific postage stamps.

History of the airmail

For France, to also see Air-mail.

Stamps of airmail

The forwarding of mail and small packages by the airmail requiring a stamping more important than forwarding by the road, the train or the boat, the Poste S emitted stamps being marked “airmail” and whose facial value was much stronger than that of the usual postage stamps.

Often, these stamps carried figurines related to the topic of the Aviation: historical pilots pioneers, apparatuses, sights of city since the sky, etc

Currently, the evolution of postal transport makes that the majority of forwardings by the stations towards a remote destination pass by the air route. The stamps of airmail are often of simple stamps of strong values to compose of stampings which are not inevitably related to an air forwarding (example: stamping in stamps of a parcel). However, the majority of the editors of catalogs of stamps always classify these stamps after the “normal” postage stamps, except for the German editor Michel which classifies the emissions in their strict chronology.

Aerophilately

For the collectors, the airmail is a very wide research field:

• philatelic collection of the stamps of airmail,
• collection and study of the folds having travelled during the first decades of the postal air adventure,
• aerophilately is the collection of the folds and marks postal related to aviation.

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