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Air Mail Postage Rates for U.S., Canada, and Newfoundland

Knowledge of postage rates can be very helpful in identifying how an air mail cover traveled. Two authors prepared the complete works for U.S. rates, including air mail rates; Henry W. Beecher and Anthony S. Wawrukiewicz. These books cover U.S. Domestic rates and U.S. International rates.

U.S. Domestic Postal Rates, 1872-1999, 2^nd Ed. Henry W. Beecher and Anthony S. Wawrukiewicz, Cama Publishing Company, 1999.
U.S. International Postal Rates, 1872-1996, Henry W. Beecher and Anthony S. Wawrukiewicz, Cama Publishing Company, 1996.

The US Post Office published a listing of rates and schedules for outgoing Foreign Air Mail for most countries in the world.
FAMS 1935 Foreign Air Mail Service Bulletin USPO 1935 through 1939
FAMS 1936
FAMS 1937
FAMS 1938
FAMS 1939

In addition, Postal Digest Co. published a monthly guide known as the Official Foreign Air Mail Guide, that provided detailed listings of air mail service to the world from the U.S. and from the world to the U.S. This publication ran from 1940 through 1947. It started as a monthly and ended as a quarterly. The APRL has an issue for 1944. A complete collection is held at the New York Public Library. Issues can be obtained for a copy fee.

A summary of Canadian Air Mail Rates was included in the sixth edition of the American Air Mail Catalog series. That summary was expanded for the seventh edition, which at this writing is still in preparation. Also, an earlier summary of air mail rates for Newfoundland was revised. Note: these publications are listed on this website at Resources/Publications/Canada 1st Edition

The Air Mails of Canada and Newfoundland, 6^th ed. American Airmail Society, 1997.
Canadian Air Mail Rates, Domestic and International 1925-2013, David Crotty,
Newfoundland Air Mail Postage 1937-1949, Jack Ince, and David Crotty
These two will be chapters for the volume 7^th ed. Air Mails of Canada and Newfoundland
These two are currently available at the Aerophilately group: https://groups.io/g/Aerophilately/

An airmail stamp is a postage stamp intended to pay either an airmail fee that is charged in addition to the surface rate, or the full airmail rate, for an item of mail to be transported by air.^[1]

Airmail stamps should not be confused with airmail etiquettes, which are affixed to mail as an instruction to the postal authority that the mail should be transmitted by air.

Development[edit]

History[edit]

With aviation developments, several countries started to experiment with flights, and postal authorities considered flying the mails. Initially flights were unofficial, but some flights such as the 1877 Buffalo balloon flight,^[2] carried mail, to which stamp-like labels were affixed. At the beginning airmail letters cost more than surface mail.

Both airmail stamps and stamps surcharged for airmail were issued, though some countries restricted the use of airmail stamps only to letters sent by airmail, while others allowed them to be used for other mail services.^[3]

The first stamp depicting an aeroplane was a US 20-cent parcel post stamp issued on 1 January 1913 but not intended for airmail duty: the set of 12 showed transportation and delivery methods.^[4] Four years later an airmail stamp was issued in Italy. Several of the early ones were produced by surcharging other stamps with overprints; at first in 1917, Italy used express stamps; regular stamps were used by Austria in 1918, Sweden used official stamps in 1920.^[3] Some other examples are the use of fiscal stamps, telegraph stamps, postage due stamps, and parcel stamps by other countries.^[3] Airmail stamps have been issued for extra services, such as registered airmail, express airmail, airmail fieldpost, and even with welfare surcharges.^[3]

A new branch of collecting[edit]

In the 1920s and 1930s, when many countries issued airmail stamps to publicise their new airmail routes, a new branch of stamp collecting started. This led to an expansion that includes the collection of covers, and other postal items carried by aircraft.^[5] Airmail items from the early days are expensive due to the popularity of this collecting area.^[6] Specialised catalogues and albums are produced for collectors of airmail stamps and other aerophilatelic items.^[7] Many airmail stamps feature aviation themes^[1] that are an area of topical stamp collecting.^[8]

Airmail stamp[edit]

First airmail stamps[edit]

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The first postage stamp to be issued for an airmail flight was in May 1917 when Poste italianeoverprinted their existing special delivery stamps.^[9] The following year, the United States Post Office Department issued the first airmail stamp specifically issued for the purpose;^[10] while it does not have 'airmail' or 'air post' printed on it, it illustrates a Curtiss JN-4airplane.^[9] One pane of 100 stamps were found to have an invert error, known as the Inverted Jenny, because the airplane image in the centre is inverted relative to the outer frame.^[11] The error is one of the most well known airmail stamps.^[10] Several countries, such as Germany, Finland, Russia and the United States, issued special airmail stamps, or overprinted stamps, for the Zeppelin flights that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s.^[12]

Local airmail stamp issues[edit]

Semi-official airmail stamps are not issued by the postal authority but have official sanction^[13] and are sometimes used for local posts, they are more accurately referred to a labels rather than stamps.^[14] For example, as noted above the privately produced 5¢ Buffalo balloon stamps were used on June 18, 1877, for a balloon flight from Nashville to Gallatin, Tennessee.^[2] The Vin Fiz Flyer, an early airplane, also carried semi-official stamps on its 1911 flight across the United States.^[15]

See also[edit]

References and sources[edit]

Notes

1. ^ ^abMiller, Rick. 'Have airmail stamps fallen victim to success?'. Linn's Stamp News. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
2. ^ ^abLynch, Maureen & Chris (2006-05-18). 'Arago: Air Post Semi-Official Issues'. National Postal Museum. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
3. ^ ^abcdHornung (1970), pps. 94–95
4. ^Berkun, Alan (14 April 2006). '20-cent Airplane'. Arago. National Postal Museum. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
5. ^Williams, Leon Norman (1990). Fundamentals of philately, Rev ed. State College, PA: American Philatelic Society. p. 15. ISBN0-933580-13-4.
6. ^Hornung (1970), pp. 258
7. ^Hornung (1970), pp. 262
8. ^Solarz, Sanford (2008-09-18). 'Scanning the Horizons:Collecting Aircraft on Stamps'. American Air Mail Society. Archived from the original on 2009-09-07. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
9. ^ ^abBaadke, Michael. 'Airmail collecting can take you anywhere'. Linn's Stamp News. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
10. ^ ^ab'Fad to Fundamental: Airmail in America: U.S. Airmail Stamps'. National Postal Museum. Archived from the original on 26 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
11. ^'Fad to Fundamental: Airmail in America: Inverted Jenny'. National Postal Museum. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
12. ^Mackay, James (1971). Airmails: 1870–1970. London: B.T. Btaford. pp. 147–148. ISBN0713403802.
13. ^'Arago Glossary'. National Postal Museum. Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-02.
14. ^Miller, Rick. 'Another world: semiofficial airmail stamps'. Linn's Stamp News. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
15. ^The Vin Fiz Flyer Semi-official Air Post Stamp

Ceres orbital elements. Sources

• Hornung, Otto (1970). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Stamp Collecting. Feltham, English: The Hamlyn Publishing Group. ISBN0-600-01797-4.
• Schoendorf, Robert (1979). The Buffalo Balloon Mail 1873-1877. New York: Cosmos Press.

Further reading

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• Gomez, James; Ariel Books Staff (1996). U.S. Airmail Stamps. Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN0-8362-0989-3.
• Newall, Alexander S. (1990). Airmail Stamps: Fakes & Forgeries. Newall Consultants. ISBN0-904804-96-8.
• Vachon, Georgette (1974). Goggles, helmets, and airmail stamps. Irwin: Clark. ISBN0-7720-0619-9.

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