Airmail

variety of domestic pigeon selectively bred to find its way home over extremely long distances

right|thumb|Airmail instructional mark on a parcel from Kyrgyzstan right|thumb|1912 German airmail between Bork, Germany|Bork and [[Brück]] right|thumb|A cover carried on a 1932 first flight in the north woods of Canada, with a cachet and franked with both a regular and an airmail stamp

thumb|GB Christmas Aerogram (one of two issued in 1967) An aerogram, aerogramme, 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 including items inside these light letters, which are usually sent abroad at a preferential rate, and enclosing items may cause the mail to go at the higher letter rate.

right|300px|thumb|This 1932 Canadian "first official flight" cover, Great Bear Lake to Rae (now [[Behchoko), includes both a special cachet and a surcharged airmail stamp.]] Aerophilately is the branch of philately that specializes in the study of airmail. Philatelists have observed the development of mail transport by air from its beginning, and all aspects of airmail service have been extensively studied and documented by specialists.

use of homing pigeons to carry messages

French airline (1918–1933)

aircraft designed to carry mail

post transported with gas ballons

mail delivery by rockets or missiles

method for transporting mail by Zeppelin

postage stamp for airmail fees

thumb|Soviet 1978 stamp commemorating Vladimir Kovalyonok and [[Aleksandr Ivanchenkov's new space-endurance record of 140 days onboard Salyut 6]] thumb|One of the so-called "Apollo 15 postal covers incident|Sieger covers" that were taken to the Moon and back by the US astronauts flying the [[Apollo 15 mission ]] Astrophilately is a branch of philately which deals with the collection of stamps and postmarked envelopes related to spaceflight. It is the intersection of space and postal history. Envelopes postmarked on significant dates and at a post office near the controlling agency are used in

label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail

Achitect/Filatelist (1919–1995)

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