The Air Mail Act of 1925, also known as the Kelly Act, was a key piece of legislation that intended to free the airmail from total control by the Post...

provisions of the Air Mail Act of 1925, better known as the Kelly Act. which required the USPOD to transition to contracting with commercial air carriers...

transcontinental air mail delivery began in 1924. In 1925, to encourage commercial aviation, the Kelly Act (also known as the Air Mail Act of 1925) authorized...

by the Postal Regulatory Commission, with some oversight by Congress. Air mail became standard in 1975. In the 21st century, prices were segmented to...

helped spur the Air Mail Act of 1925, which was signed into law on February 2. The bill allowed private aviation companies to bid on mail delivery contracts...

Administration of China in the People's Republic of China and Interflug in East Germany. In the United States, the Air Mail Act of 1925 and the Civil Aeronautics...

the Flag at Ground Zero is a photograph by Thomas E. Franklin of The Record newspaper of Bergen County, New Jersey, taken on September 11, 2001. The picture...

ready use in the hands of small commercial firms and with the newly founded regional airlines. When the Air Mail Act of 1925 came into force, Walter...

officially incorporated as a city in 1917. In 1925, the Kelly Act (also known as the Air Mail Act of 1925) authorized the United States Postal Service...

trials of carrying mail by air. These were shown by the first stamp in the world to picture an airplane (captioned as "aeroplane carrying mail"), one of the...

the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and...

group of Los Angeles entrepreneurs founded Western Air Express and the airport to cash in on the Air Mail Act of 1925 that opened up bidding on air mail contracts...

Classics series of commemorative postage stamps was issued by the United States Postal Service on October 1, 1995, to honor the centennial of the newspaper...

the 1897 Congress of the Universal Postal Union (the international convention responsible for securing efficiency in the flow of mail from country to country...

to the Douglas M-2. The Contract Air Mail Act of 1925 set out the gradual privatization of the Post Office's Air Mail routes. In late 1926, bids were requested...

web}}: CS1 maint: others (link) "First Man on the Moon" 10₵ United States Air Mail stamp Archived 2012-08-23 at the Wayback Machine does not identify Armstrong...

a secure engraver and printer, and assisting the newly formed First Bank of the United States to design and produce more counterfeit resistant currency...

The postage stamps and postal system of the Confederate States of America carried the mail of the Confederacy for a brief period in U.S. history. Early...

While stamps of this design were the common 1-cent stamps of the 1860s, the Z-Grill is distinguished by having the so-called "Z" variety of a grill pressed...

of the Union Address. January 5 – Coolidge nominates Harlan F. Stone to the U.S. Supreme Court. February 2 – Coolidge signs the Air Mail Act of 1925 into...

5-cent value was for regular mail to the US, and the 13-cent value was for mail to the US East Coast, combining the 5 cents of Hawaiian postage, a 2-cent...

Bicentennial stamps of 1932 are postage stamps issued by the United States government in 1932 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of U.S. President George...

series, females had appeared on only two denominations, while the 1902, 1922–1925, 1938 and 1954–1965 definitives had each presented only one woman. This was...

hobby of philately. Ridiculing the $5 stamp, the Chicago Tribune stated that it could be used for only one purpose: mailing a 62½-pound package of books...

evils of slavery, and for that purpose, mailed thousands upon thousands of anti-slavery tracts. The response in the south led the nation to the edge of disaster...

who habitually used them on his mail bombs. Stamps of the series: 1¢ green - Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States 1¼¢ light green...

Post Office issued the Statue of Liberty Forever stamp on December 1, 2010. The stamp shows the replica of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening...

305,000 copies were produced of the reissue (1917), which is unwatermarked. Most commonly used for heavy overseas mail (as aforesaid), as well as internal...

First Class Mail Volume, 1926–2010 Archived 2012-01-14 at the Wayback Machine Baldwin, N. C. (1960), p. 5, Fifty Years of British Air Mails, Francis J...

permit private contracting of airmail service. This resolution, the Air Mail Act of 1925 was signed into law on February 2, 1925, prompting many companies...