{"id":23286,"date":"2018-04-27T08:16:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T13:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=23286"},"modified":"2018-04-27T08:16:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T13:16:54","slug":"united-states-postal-service-to-celebrate-100th-anniversary-of-u-s-air-mail-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/04\/27\/united-states-postal-service-to-celebrate-100th-anniversary-of-u-s-air-mail-service\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Postal Service to Celebrate 100th Anniversary of U.S. Air Mail Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What:<\/strong><\/td>\nFirst-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the United States Air Mail Forever stamp. The event is free and open to the public. Please share the news using the hashtags\u00a0#AirMailStamps\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and\u00a0#USAirMail<\/em><\/strong>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Who:<\/strong><\/td>\nDr. Bill Harris, Deputy Director, Air Force History and Museums Policies and Programs
\nSusan Brownell, Vice President,\u00a0 Supply Management, United States Postal Service
\nElliot Gruber, Director, Smithsonian National Postal Museum
\nNancy Pope, Head Curator, Smithsonian National Postal Museum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
When:<\/strong><\/td>\nTuesday, May 1, 2018 at 11 a.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Where:<\/strong><\/td>\nNational Postal Museum<\/a>
\n2 Massachusetts Ave. N.E.
\nWashington, DC 20002<\/p>\n

Followers of the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s Facebook page can view the ceremony live at\u00a0facebook.com\/USPS<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Background:<\/strong><\/td>\nOn May 15, 1918, in the midst of World War I, a small group of Army pilots delivered mail along a route that linked Washington, DC; Philadelphia; and New York City \u2014 initiating the world’s first regularly scheduled airmail service. The U.S. Post Office Department took charge of U.S. Air Mail service later that summer, operating it from Aug. 12, 1918, through Sept. 1, 1927.<\/p>\n

On the 100th anniversary of the beginning of airmail service, this stamp celebrates the courage of the pioneering airmail carriers and the foresight of those who fostered the new service and made it a success.<\/p>\n

Airmail delivery, daily except Sundays, became part of the fabric of the American economy and spurred the growth of the nation\u2019s aviation industry.<\/p>\n

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A second stamp, featured in red, will be released later this summer in commemoration of the Post Office Department\u2019s U.S. Air Mail service. More details will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n

Both stamps, printed in intaglio \u2014 a design engraved into the stamp paper \u2014 feature a drawing of the type of plane typically used in the early days of airmail, a Curtiss JN-4H biplane. The biplane was also featured on the stamps originally issued in 1918 to commemorate the beginning of regularly scheduled airmail service. The stamp design evokes that earlier period.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products, and services to fund its operations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What: First-day-of-issue dedication ceremony for the United States Air Mail Forever stamp. The event is free and open to the public. Please share the news using the hashtags\u00a0#AirMailStamps\u00a0and\u00a0#USAirMail. Who: Dr. Bill Harris, Deputy Director, Air Force History and Museums Policies and Programs Susan Brownell, Vice President,\u00a0 Supply Management, United States Postal Service Elliot Gruber, Director, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23287,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23286\/revisions\/23287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}