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airmail

[air-meyl] / ˈɛərˌmeɪl /




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We'd get airmail and yesterday's Telegraph newspaper sent to the dressing room.

From BBC Nov. 11, 2025

William Boeing’s namesake company was building seaplanes on South Lake Union in Seattle and found a partner to launch airmail and passenger travel, which eventually broke off as United Airlines.

From Seattle Times Dec. 30, 2022

He had covered the tissue-thin airmail stationary corner to corner with his typing, leaving only a little room for the address.

From Salon Nov. 23, 2022

Like the Magenta, the airmail plate-number block is unique, an error created when the 24-cent stamps were printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing with the illustration of a Curtiss Jenny aircraft upside down.

From Washington Times Jun. 5, 2021

When I dream that I am wire without flesh, there is a letter on blue airmail paper that floats above the night ocean between here and China.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston




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