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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
airmail
noun
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▪ At just £1.75 plus the regular airmail rate the savings are obvious.
▪ In 1919, Britain's first civil airmail service began.
▪ Overseas orders: add £1.50 for post and packing by airmail.
▪ Swiftair provides an effective, economical express service and is available at post offices. £1.95 plus airmail postage.
▪ The price includes airmail postage to everywhere in the world.
Wiktionary
airmail
  1. Of, or relating to such a system. n. 1 The system of conveying mail using aircraft. 2 The items of mail so carried. v

  2. (context transitive English) To send mail by air.

WordNet
airmail
  1. n. letters and packages that are transported by aircraft

  2. a system of conveying mail by aircraft [syn: airpost]

  3. v. send or transport by airmail; "Letters to Europe from the U.S. are best airmailed"

Wikipedia
Airmail

Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of being airborne. Airmail items typically arrive more quickly than surface mail, and usually cost more to send. Airmail may be the only option for sending mail to some destinations, such as overseas, if the mail cannot wait the time it would take to arrive by ship, sometimes weeks. The Universal Postal Union adopted comprehensive rules for airmail at its 1929 Postal Union Congress in London. Since the official language of the Universal Postal Union is French, airmail items worldwide are often marked ''' Par avion ''', literally: "by airplane".

For about the first half century of its existence, transportation of mail via aircraft was usually categorized and sold as a separate service (airmail) from surface mail. Today it is often the case that mail service is categorized and sold according to transit time alone, with mode of transport (land, sea, air) being decided on the back end in dynamic intermodal combinations. Thus even "regular" mail may make part of its journey on an aircraft. Such "air-speeded" mail is different from nominal airmail in its branding, price, and priority of service.

Airmail (album)

Airmail is the second studio album by Australian rock band Epicure. It was released on 15 October 2001. The Album is essentially a collection of Epicure's previous three EPs repackaged into one album.

Airmail (disambiguation)

Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service.

Airmail may also refer to:

  • Airmail (album), an album by Epicure
  • Air Mail (album), an album by Air
  • Air Mail (film), a 1932 American film directed by John Ford
  • The Air Mail, a 1925 silent film directed by Irvin Willat
  • Air Mail (video game), an iOS game
  • Airmail (email client) an email client for iPhone and Mac OS X
Airmail (email client)

Airmail is an email client for iPhone and Mac OS X by Italian company Bloop SRL. It was based originally on the discontinued Sparrow client.

Macworld reviewed the application in 2013 and concluded that "Airmail is a great-looking email client, and does a few things quite well, but it has a few annoying quirks".

Usage examples of "airmail".

She said she had a message for me and it was coming by airmail tomorrow.

The spiky handwriting on the airmail envelope from London was obviously hers, and Pug tore it open with more eagerness than he wanted to feel.

Carefully, to avoid destroying any existing prints, she removed its contents with a pair of eyebrow tweezers, then unfolded the thin sheets of airmail paper.

She stared at a slim blue airmail envelope with a Zimbabwean postmark.

There were several sheets of thin airmail paper covered in the same hand.

She handed over an airmail letter and a well- wrapped packet about the size of a box of chocolates.

Hubby Freddy, overseas with a battalion of the East Surreys, had written by Forces airmail five weeks ago in response to her letter telling him she was thinking of returning to Walworth.

This long letter, written in a bold, flowing hand on a 489 Nineteen hundred and forty-four dozen sheets of bright-blue airmail paper, contained all sorts of information about European people, places and corporations known to Cyrus.

It was a medium-sized opaque envelope, unaddressed, sealed, not much bulkier than if it contained a three-page airmail letter.

Skiros, 118 Garlenda Drive, Twickenham, UK, and was stamped with one hundred shillings worth of un franked stamps and an airmail sticker As well as a letter I reckoned it also contained a tiny plastic card, the sort that supports a micro-chip the memory card from her digital camera?

On a table nearby Aloysius Royce had spread open the airmailed New York newspapers.

There was a lapse of at least ten days between the receiving and the answering of that lettertime enough for an accomplice to pick it up in Rome, airmail it to Roy in Reno, get his airmail reply in Amsterdam, and remail it to you here.

She airmailed postcards to everybody in the family including Nanny, and used her credit cards to establish her presence in Switzerland.

They're airmailing the box home later today, probably, and the pathologist called it a heart attack.

They're airmailing the box home later today, proba­bly, and the pathologist called it a heart attack.