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Airmail: A Brief History - USPS

20 states. These flights convinced Department officials that airplanes could carry mail. Beginning in 1912, postal officials urged Congress to appropriate money to launch airmail service.8 In 1916, Congress finally authorized the use of $50,000 from steamboat and powerboat service appropriations for airmail experiments. The

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