More accurately, we should call the delivery lighter-than-air mail, since this imagined letter would have been one of 123 handed over to John Wise, aeronaut and pilot of the balloon Jupiter.

On June 22, 1946, the first jet-powered airmail flight took off from Schenectady, NY, marking a major milestone in aviation ...

Hundreds of letters between two modern literary giants reveal their friendship, ... “Airmail: The Letters of Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer,” edited by Thomas R. Smith.

Germany’s national postal carrier Deutsche Post AG has stopped using aeroplanes to transport letters domestically, a step that will reduce CO2 emissions as use of letter mail dwindles. The last ...

Royal Mail is to scale back its airmail operations in a cost-cutting measure that the postal service has claimed will tackle chronic delays to letter deliveries. The company has said it is halving ...

Uncle Who Cares: Back in the day, if you wanted to check in with an overseas relative, you would wait for that tissue-paper airmail letter to land in your mailbox. Or you would have a weekly call ...

Airmail service was first tested in the US in 1911, but airplanes were a new invention and too risky for the federal ...

As every Sherlock Holmes fan knows, 221 B Baker Street is the great detective's London address. When a Press story in TIME'S June 20 issue disclosed that anybody could now get in touch with ...

In today's Ask Amy advice column, Amy Dickinson responds to a long-distance mother-daughter relationship with strained communication. (Photo courtesy of Getty Images) Getty Images ...