air mail
Letters by plane
Air mail is postal service that transports letters and packages by aircraft rather than surface routes.
The term dates from when air transport was a premium option requiring special stamps and distinctive envelopes with red and blue striped borders.
Today most long-distance mail travels by air, making the designation less meaningful: I sent it air mail to arrive by Friday.
Postal payment adhesives
- envelopesPaper containers for letters
- postageFee for mailing
- postmanMail delivery worker
- deliveryConveyance of goods
sorting · postmark · address · package · registered · dispatch · aerogramme · letter
- Amelia EarhartVanished female pilot
- Pan AmDefunct American international carrier
- biplanesAircraft with two wing tiers
- barnstormersTouring aerial performers
airship · Zeppelin · Wright brothers · transatlantic · pioneers · jet age · first flight · airfield
stamps
Postal payment adhesives
delivery · sorting · postmark · address · package · registered · dispatch · aerogramme · letter · sender
Lindbergh
- Amelia EarhartVanished female pilot
- Pan AmDefunct American international carrier
- biplanesAircraft with two wing tiers
barnstormers · airship · Zeppelin · Wright brothers · transatlantic · pioneers · jet age · first flight · airfield · commemorative
customs
Traditional practices or import taxes
worldwide · cross-border · tariffs · duty · logistics · tracking · foreign · parcels · overseas · destination
express
State or fast train
- overnightSpanning evening to morning
- priorityStatus of greater importance
- expeditedMade faster, prioritized
urgent · swift · rapid · dispatch · rushed · time-sensitive · same-day · next-day · guaranteed · accelerated
- mailletter, letters, email, envelope, postcard
- shipping feesshipping fee, delivery fee, handling fee, delivery charge, postage
- postalstamp, stamps, letter, letters, envelope
- postal servicepost office, sorting machine, stamps, stamp, mailbox
- postal servicespost office, stamps, delivery, packages, envelopes
- correspondenceletters, letter, handwritten letters, family letters, missives
air mailsurface mail
Mail sent overland
ground shipping · ocean freight · maritime shipping · road freight · parcel post