"Airmail etiquette An airmail etiquette, often shortened to just etiquette, is a label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail. The term is from French ""étiquette"" ""label, sticker"" (cognate to ""stick""), from which also comes the English word etiquette ""rules of behavior"". Because the etiquettes are just instructions to postal clerks, and have no monetary value, their printing and distribution need not be as carefully controlled as for postage stamps, and most are privately produced. The usual design is a plain blue oblong, with the phrases ""AIR MAIL"" and/or ""PAR AVION"" in white letters. Airlines"
"refer to a specific kind of airmail letter which is its own envelope; see aerogram. Some forms of airletter, such as aerogram, may forbid enclosure of other material so as to keep the weight down. The choice to send a letter by air is indicated either by a handwritten note on the envelope, by the use of special labels called airmail etiquettes (blue stickers with the words ""air mail"" in French and in the home language), or by the use of specially-marked envelopes. Special airmail stamps may also be available, or required; the rules vary in different countries. The study"
"by ship, it also announced that the words ""Air Mail"" would no longer appear on any U.S. postage stamps However a stamp denominated for foreign mailing, and showing a small airplane silhouette, is considered to be the final ""air mail"" issue. It was issued in 2012. While the USPS no longer offers traditional letter Air Mail, it does provide various classes of ""premium"" domestic and international business, priority, and express Air Mail services with guaranteed delivery times at much higher rates. In June 2006 the USPS formally trademarked ""Air Mail"" (two words with capital first letters) along with Pony Express."
"priority of service. Specific instances of a letter being delivered by air long predate the introduction of Airmail as a regularly scheduled service available to the general public. Although homing pigeons had long been used to send messages (an activity known as pigeon mail), the first mail to be carried by an air vehicle was on January 7, 1785, on a hot air balloon flight from Dover to France near Calais. It was flown by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries. The letter was written by an American Loyalist William Franklin to his son William Temple Franklin who was serving in"
"Aerogram An aerogram, aérogramme, air letter or airletter is a thin lightweight piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter for transit via airmail, in which the letter and envelope are one and the same. Most postal administrations forbid enclosures in these light letters, which are usually sent abroad at a preferential rate. Printed warnings existed to say that an enclosure would cause the mail to go at the higher letter rate. The use of the term ""aerogramme"" was officially endorsed at the 1952 Universal Postal Union Postal Union Congress in Brussels. Thereafter, the term ""air letter"" quickly"
"The aerogram, also written aérogramme, aerogramme, or airletter, also made from a lightweight paper, is the modern equivalent of the WWII lettersheet and most postal operators issue them prepaid, though Ireland, New Zealand and Rhodesia have issued them without an indicium requiring the addition of a postage stamp before mailing. The Universal Postal Union adopted the term ""aérogramme"", the French word for air letter, during the 1951–52 13th Postal Union Congress held in Brussels and all countries inscribe this on their air mail lettersheets except for the United Kingdom which still uses the term ""Air Letter"". Not all lettersheets are"
"""The Three Musketeers"", ""Queen Margot"" and ""The Count of"" ""Monte-Cristo"". The Maquet company was created to commercialize the patent for the first machine-made envelopes, the use of which was still little known. This patent, the application for which was filed in 1841 and granted by the French Patent Office on 17 January 1842, described how to manufacture and use the ""envelope-card-letter"" (""enveloppe-carte-lettre"", in French), also called ""a word in the Mail"" (""un mot à la Poste""). The invention of the envelope was the culminating point of a variety of measures taken since the 17th century to preserve correspondence confidentiality. In"
"airmail, issued by the United States in May 1918. A postal service may sometimes opt to transport some regular mail by air, perhaps because other transportation is unavailable. It is usually impossible to know this by examining an envelope, and such items are not considered ""airmail."" Generally, airmail would take a guaranteed and scheduled flight and arrive first, while air-speeded mail would wait for a non-guaranteed and merely available flight and would arrive later than normal airmail. A letter sent via airmail may be called an aerogramme, aerogram, air letter or simply airmail letter. However, aerogramme and aerogram may also"
"French, airmail items worldwide are often marked Par avion, literally: ""by airplane"". For about the first half century of its existence, transportation of mail via aircraft was usually categorized and sold as a separate service (airmail) from surface mail. Today it is often the case that mail service is categorized and sold according to transit time alone, with mode of transport (land, sea, air) being decided on the back end in dynamic intermodal combinations. Thus even ""regular"" mail may make part of its journey on an aircraft. Such ""air-speeded"" mail is different from nominal airmail in its branding, price, and"
"Airmail Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air. Airmail items typically arrive more quickly than surface mail, and usually cost more to send. Airmail may be the only option for sending mail to some destinations, such as overseas, if the mail cannot wait the time it would take to arrive by ship, sometimes weeks. The Universal Postal Union adopted comprehensive rules for airmail at its 1929 Postal Union Congress in London. Since the official language of the Universal Postal Union is"
"of airmail is known as aerophilately. Airmail Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air. Airmail items typically arrive more quickly than surface mail, and usually cost more to send. Airmail may be the only option for sending mail to some destinations, such as overseas, if the mail cannot wait the time it would take to arrive by ship, sometimes weeks. The Universal Postal Union adopted comprehensive rules for airmail at its 1929 Postal Union Congress in London. Since the official language"
"Portmanteau (mail) A portmanteau (, ; plural ""portmanteaux"" or ""portmanteaus"") was a traveling bag (suitcase style) used as a mailbag. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, both newspapers and letters were transported in these leather mailbags that opened into two sections. The etymology of the word is the Middle French porte-manteau, from porter, ""to carry"", and manteau, ""coat, mantle"". A court official carried the robes of a king in a ""portmanteau"" (traveling bag). The ""portmanteau"" had two hinged compartments and hence this idea of ""two"" carried over into early America. English merchant Thomas Witherings established mail routes throughout Europe in"
"the Winter"". Air France uniforms denote the ranks for the flight attendants. Two silver sleeve stripes denote a Chief Purser. One silver sleeve stripe denote a Purser. Flight attendants do not have any sleeve stripes. The female cabin crew uniforms feature the stripes on the breast pocket rather than the sleeve for their male counterparts. Air France's current uniforms were created by French fashion designer Christian Lacroix. Upon its formation, Air France adopted the seahorse logo of its predecessor Air Orient, known as the ""hippocampe ailé"" (sometimes derisively called ""la crevette"" – or shrimp – by its employees), as its"
"Airmail stamp 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. 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. 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,"
"ASL Airlines France ASL Airlines France, formerly ""Europe Airpost"", is an airline based in the Bâtiment Le Séquoia in Tremblay-en-France. It operates mail and cargo flights for the postal service and newspapers dispatch during the night and scheduled and charter services for other airlines and tour operators by day thanks to its fleet of Boeing 737-300QC (""Quick Change"") aircraft that can be switched between cargo and passenger configuration in less than an hour. Its main base is Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport. The airline's roots can be traced to the ""Companie générale aéropostale"" in 1927 that pioneered mail delivery between Europe,"
"in various scenes and etchings representing ""the signs of the zodiac"". The lovers were depicted in stamps in 1985 in France, Cancellation at the post of Valentine's Day in the Indre every February 14 and in postcards. The French stamp of 1985, ""The Valentine's Day of Peynet"", is pastel colors. The rural scene depicts a couple of lovers near a heart-shaped mailbox in which two angels post envelopes. In 2000, La Poste Francais took over these two characters for a tribute stamp to the deceased illustrator, this time representing the two characters near a music kiosk. In 2002, a bottle"
"twin floats. It was re-designated again as the 195/4 in early 1930, when it was fitted with Gnome-Rhone Titan engines. It was put forward to meet a requirement for a seaplane to operate a mail service between Marseilles and Algiers, but in the end none of the designs submitted were accepted and the 195 was placed into storage. In April 1931 it was brought out of storage and modified to be a landplane and designated the 195/6; it was then tested by Air Union as a cargo aircraft. It did not gain a certificate of airworthiness as a cargo carrier"
"as Zeppelin mail, or dirigible mail. The German Zeppelins were especially visible in this role, and many countries issued special stamps for use on Zeppelin mail. The 1928 book ""So Disdained"" by Nevil Shute — a novel based on this author's deep interest in and thorough knowledge of aviation — includes a monologue by a veteran pilot, preserving the atmosphere of these pioneering times: ""We used to fly on the Paris route, from Hounslow to Le Bourget and get through as best as you could. Later we moved on to Croydon. (...) We carried the much advertised Air Mails. That"
"frank mark on the top-right corner of the envelope to acknowledge payment of postage. A return address, although it is not required, can be put on the top-left corner or the back of the envelope in smaller type than the destination address. Official addressing protocol is for the address to be in block letters, using a fixed-pitch typeface (such as Courier). The first line(s) of the address contain(s) the personal name and internal address of the recipient. The second-to-last line is the post office box, general delivery indicator, or street address, using the shortened name of the street type and"
"that Europe Airpost will be rebranded as ASL Airlines France. The ASL Airlines France fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2017): ASL Airlines France ASL Airlines France, formerly ""Europe Airpost"", is an airline based in the Bâtiment Le Séquoia in Tremblay-en-France. It operates mail and cargo flights for the postal service and newspapers dispatch during the night and scheduled and charter services for other airlines and tour operators by day thanks to its fleet of Boeing 737-300QC (""Quick Change"") aircraft that can be switched between cargo and passenger configuration in less than an hour. Its main base"
"Registered envelope A registered envelope is a form of postal stationery consisting of a strong envelope with an imprinted stamp used for sending registered mail. The envelopes usually include a perpendicular blue cross and an R in a circle symbol, both internationally recognised symbols of registered mail. The imprinted stamp (often on the flap) shows the fee for the registration service, while a space is left for a postage stamp to be affixed to pay the postage fee. The envelopes are usually marked ""Registered Letter"" but that term strictly only relates to a normal letter or packet that has extra"
"forced him to land near Crawfordsville, Indiana, and the mail reached its final destination via train. In 1959, the U.S. Postal Service issued a 7 cent stamp commemorating the event. Balloons also carried mail out of Paris and Metz during the Franco-Prussian War (1870), drifting over the heads of the Germans besieging those cities. Balloon mail was also carried on an 1877 flight in Nashville, Tennessee. Starting in 1903 the introduction of the airplane generated immediate interest in using them for mail transport. An unofficial airmail flight was conducted by Fred Wiseman, who carried three letters between Petaluma and Santa"
"in partnership with SFR). Yellow is the main colour of the French post since the 1960s. Previously, postal vans used to be green and post boxes blue. Yellow was chosen because it is a colour that is easily seen and because it can symbolise speed and light. The logotype of La Poste was created by poster designer Guy Georget. It represents a bird, often called the ""postal bird"" (""l'oiseau postal""), symbolising a messenger. Its design was slightly altered by Georget in 1978. La Poste (France) La Poste is a postal service company in France, operating in Metropolitan France as well"
"rows of round riveted rings and solid rings. By the 14th century, European mail makers stopped using solid rings and mail was made from wedge riveted rings only with no solid rings. By the late 15th century, the aventail had replaced the mail coif completely. An aventail is a curtain of mail which is attached to the skull of a helmet. The mail extends to cover the throat, neck and shoulders. For the word ""mail"", there are a variety of alternative spellings. This is common of an English word introduced from the French. Generally, the English spelling has been preferred,"
"One theory is that it originally derives from the Latin word, ""macula"", meaning ""spot"" or ""opacity"" (as in macula of retina). Another theory relates the word to the old French, ""maillier"", meaning ""to hammer"" (related to the modern English word, ""malleable""). In modern French, ""maille"" refers to a loop or stitch. The Arabic words ""burnus"", برنوس, a burnoose; a hooded cloak, also a chasuble (worn by Coptic priests) and ""barnaza"", برنز, to bronze, suggest an Arabic influence for the Carolingian armour known as ""byrnie"" (see below). The first attestations of the word ""mail"" are in Old French and Anglo-Norman: ""maille"","
"in double envelopes. The inner envelope may be lined, is not gummed, and fits into the outer envelope. The outer envelope is gummed for sealing and addressing. More recently, the inner envelope is often left out in the interest of saving money, paper, and postage. In some cases, a pocketfold takes the place of an inner envelope. In countries that issue them, the envelope may be franked with love stamps. The United States postal service issues a love stamp each year specifically denominated to cover the double weight of the invitation and reply (a rate slightly less than the cost"
"Poste, near Wissous. Prior to its re-establishment as OpenSkies, the airline L'Avion (Elysair SAS) was headquartered in that location. Kyocera Fineceramics Group has its design centre in Orlytech in Paray-Vieille-Poste, near Wissous. Schools in Wissous include: The commune includes a library. The coat of arms contains three fleurs de lys, symbolizing Ile-de-France, on an azure background. On a red background, there are six ears of corn, which represent the agricultural activity in the commune. Each two ears have one gear underneath; the gears represent the importance of economic activity. The commune's logo, placed on official documents, has one fleur de"
"In some countries, a postal, telegraph and telephone (PTT) service oversees the postal system, in addition to telephone and telegraph systems. Some countries' postal systems allow for savings accounts and handle applications for passports. The Universal Postal Union (UPU), established in 1874, includes 192 member countries and sets the rules for international mail exchanges. The word ""mail"" comes from the Medieval English word ""male"", referring to a travelling bag or pack. It was spelled that way until the 17th century, and is distinct from the word male. The French have a similar word, ""malle"" for a trunk or large box,"
"exist to help them such as the ""American Air Mail Catalogue."" The first official postal delivery flight between two towns took place on February 18, 1911, during the ""United Provinces Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition"" in India. The young French pilot Henri Pequet carried mail from the exhibition location Allahabad to Naini, which is approx. 8 km away. It took Henri Pequet and his biplane ""Sommer"" about 13 minutes for the distance. The carried covers were provided with the large circular bright magenta postmark ""First Aerial Post, U.P. Exhibition Allahabad 1911"" and a few cards were autographed by the pilot. Pequet"
"some of his friends in Montreal who wanted letters delivered to Toronto; however when the Post Office Department heard of the plans, they gathered together the letters as a test of an airmail system. A modern plaque at the site of Leaside Aerodrome reads: ""At 10:12 a.m. on 24 June 1918, Captain Brian Peck of the Royal Air Force and mechanic Corporal C.W. Mathers took off from the Bois Franc Polo Grounds in Montreal in a JN-4 Curtiss two-seater airplane. They had with them the first bag of mail to be delivered by air in Canada. Wind and rain buffetted"
"at times rambles and goes off on unrelated tangents. It translates into English as follows:Hi everyone!Huge surprise: we’ve have to leave urgently for the US, due to a very particular set of circumstances that we will explain below.You’re receiving this letter through classic snail mail because for the next few years, we can’t communicate any other way (no emails, no texts, no phone calls) for safety reasons.When you read this letter, we will no longer be in France and won’t be able to return for an as-yet undetermined period of time (a few years).You must be wondering what’s going on…Here’s"
"(as appears on the identification to be presented ID document or a passport, if abroad). In Cambodia, mail is addressed to POSTE RESTANTE, which is written after the full name of the recipient. Parcels and letters should contain a phone number, but recipients are more likely to get notified by phone for a parcel. Canada Post uses the term ""general delivery"" in English, and ""poste restante"" in French. Travellers may use the service for up to four months, and it is also used in circumstances where other methods of delivery (such as post office boxes) are not available. Canada Post"
"seemed then like an astonishingly short four days. Previously, the mail steamships had taken weeks or months. It had a very limited military career. Venezuela bought three for use as bombers, and the government of France gave several to the republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Latécoère 28 The Latécoère 28 was a successful French long-haul mail plane and passenger airliner of the 1930s. It was the main-stay of Air France's predecessor, Aéropostale in its efforts to establish intercontinental air mail services and support French colonialism and French cultural influence between the wars. Its pilots included famous poets and"