Every Stamp Tells a Story by Cheryl Ganz

Author:Cheryl Ganz [Ganz, Cheryl R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-935623-54-0
Publisher: Smithsonian
Published: 2014-12-02T05:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 63

Commercial aviation owes its existence to the Post Office. After 1926, postal-funded aircraft, trained pilots, and a transcontinental flyway became the nucleus of privately owned airlines. Mail cargo fees kept companies in business until passenger traffic was supportable in the late 1930s.

FIGURE 64

Sorting unit owned by Postmaster John T. Jackson of Alanthus, Virginia. The pigeon hole sorting system seen here was at the core of mail processing until the mid-twentieth century.

FIGURE 65

The 5¢ 1963 City Mail Delivery issue was the first commemorative stamp produced as a tagged stamp for mail processing, as shown here under ultraviolet light before and after tagging.

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