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Recent Examples of airmail
Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
The earliest airmail pilots flew biplanes like the Curtiss JN-4H, and manufacturers soon made special models for airmail.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2020
Then send it by airmail to your brother in Medford.
—Dan Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
Receipts at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University show that Handler purchased 11 Lilli dolls in 1956 and later ordered another dozen via airmail.
—Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
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Staff found and destroyed eight of the erroneous sheets and shipped the other stamps to offices in Washington, New York and Philadelphia—the cities selected for the first airmail flights.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
The earliest airmail pilots flew biplanes like the Curtiss JN-4H, and manufacturers soon made special models for airmail.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2020
Then send it by airmail to your brother in Medford.
—Dan Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
Receipts at the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University show that Handler purchased 11 Lilli dolls in 1956 and later ordered another dozen via airmail.
—Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
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Garvey and his shipping company were now being investigated by the FBI under the presiding eye of J. Edgar Hoover, which would lead to his conviction of mail fraud and a sentence of five years in prison.—
Meagan Jordan,
Rolling Stone,
23 Jan. 2025
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Turow took a job at the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago and plunged into high-profile trial work, successfully prosecuting a Cook County judge charged with mail fraud and extortion, among other cases.—
Sarah Lyall,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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That document was sent by registered mail to the U.S. Senate and the National Archives.—
Richard Ruelas,
The Arizona Republic,
30 Jan. 2022
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In ways that vary state by state, each state's electors then prepare six Certificates of Vote, which are sent by registered mail to the President of the U.S. Senate and the Archivist of the United States.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Sep. 2020
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The old law had required that the executor send you notice by registered or certified mail, and then provide proof of service to the court.—
Virginia Hammerle,
Dallas News,
30 July 2023
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Resumes sent by registered or certified mail to the Metro Council Clerk, 601 W. Jefferson St., 40202, must be postmarked no later than March 3 and must be received in the clerk’s office within four business days after mailing.—
Billy Kobin,
The Courier-Journal,
24 Feb. 2023
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Inside her was the growing awareness that Sebastien had only been writing her, Dani, out of a sense of duty, all the while hotly suffering a much more grownup correspondence with the incredible Yvonne.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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Chambers mentions a lamp by Pasadena artist Ashoke Chhabra and his great-uncle Charles Dockum’s mobile color projector, as well as Dockum’s correspondence with architect Frank Lloyd Wright.—
Lisa Boone,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Airmail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airmail. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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