Mitford told us that any sign of haste is non-U. Whenever possible, she said, she avoided airmail.

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The Pony Express began in 1860, six-day delivery started in 1863, and airmail became the mode in 1918.

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Ensure the organization and implementation of various means of communication used by the Organization: regular mail, airmail, diplomatic pouch, courier services, etc.

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"We've got the airmail - the blueys as they're known - and we can email him and he calls quite a bit, " she said.

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Here the clothes are made, ingeniously, of plastic shopping bags, trash bags, airmail envelopes, paper posters, bottle caps, and fabric printed to look like newspaper.

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Health officials Monday stepped up their advisories to postal workers, particularly those who worked in the backroom area of the Brentwood facility and another airmail site near Baltimore Washington International Airport.

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It was rather the unknown airmail pilot who'd dared to do what had never been done by any aviator before him, the adored Lone Eagle, boyish and unspoiled still, despite the years of phenomenal fame.

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His parents each gave him a full dollar a week to spend on stamps, and when the Casa Loma Orchestra wasn't playing in New York and was out touring, Mr. Axman sent Earl envelopes with airmail stamps postmarked from cities everywhere.

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