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On the 100th anniversary of the beginning of regular airmail service, this stamp celebrates the courage of the pioneering airmail carriers and the foresight of those who fostered the new service and made it a success. This Forever stamp will always be equal in value to the current First Class Mail one ounce price. The United States Air Mail stamp is being issued as a Forever stamp. It set up lighted airfields and erected hundreds of airmail guide beacons between New York and San Francisco so that by 1924 regularly scheduled, transcontinental flying was possible, day and night.Īirmail delivery, daily except on Sundays, became part of the fabric of the American economy and spurred the growth of the nation’s aviation industry. The stamp designs evoke that earlier period.įor airmail service to succeed in the early days of flight, the Post Office had to develop profitable routes, such as between New York and Chicago, and to establish the infrastructure for safely making night flights. The biplane was also featured on the stamps originally issued in 1918 to commemorate the beginning of regularly scheduled airmail service. The second stamp, red and pictured left, will commemorate this milestone with its first-day-of-issue to take place later this summer.īoth stamps, printed in the intaglio print method- a design transferred to paper from an engraved plate - depict the type of plane typically used in the early days of airmail, a Curtiss JN-4H biplane. Airmail delivery, daily except on Sundays, became part of the fabric of the American economy and spurred growth of the nation’s aviation industry.

Air Mail Service later that summer, operating it from Aug. The United States Post Office Department, the predecessor to the U.S. On May 15, 1918, in the midst of World War I, a small group of Army pilots delivered mail along a route that linked Washington, Philadelphia, and New York-initiating the world’s first regularly scheduled airmail service. News about the stamps can be shared with the hashtags #AirMailStamps and #USAirMail. Postal Service’s Facebook page can view the ceremony live at /USPS.

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The event is free and open to the public. at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 2 Massachusetts Ave. The first-day-of-issue ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. The first, depicted on the right in blue, commemorates the pioneering spirit of the brave pilots who first flew the mail in the early years of aviation. United States Postal Service to Celebrate 100th Anniversaryįirst of Two United States Air Mail Forever Stamps to be Dedicated May 1 WASHINGTON - The United States Postal Service will honor the beginning of airmail service by dedicating two United States Air Mail Forever stamps this year. Click here to go to the Airmail II information.

The latest updates are at the end of this page. The red, or “carmine,” stamp will be issued August 11.

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C1, C2 and C3, plus of course the infamous C3a invert) on May 13, 1918. airmail service was established May 15, 1918, with the first three stamps issued (Sc. This issue was not in the initial 2018 announcement.

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