The Air Mail Act of 1925, also known as the Kelly Act, was a key piece of legislation that intended to free the airmail from total control by the Post...

provisions of the Air Mail Act of 1925, better known as the Kelly Act. which required the USPOD to transition to contracting with commercial air carriers...

transcontinental air mail delivery began in 1924. In 1925, to encourage commercial aviation, the Kelly Act (also known as the Air Mail Act of 1925) authorized...

by the Postal Regulatory Commission, with some oversight by Congress. Air mail became standard in 1975. In the 21st century, prices were segmented to...

helped spur the Air Mail Act of 1925, which was signed into law on February 2. The bill allowed private aviation companies to bid on mail delivery contracts...

Administration of China in the People's Republic of China and Interflug in East Germany. In the United States, the Air Mail Act of 1925 and the Civil Aeronautics...

officially incorporated as a city in 1917. In 1925, the Kelly Act (also known as the Air Mail Act of 1925) authorized the United States Postal Service...

trials of carrying mail by air. These were shown by the first stamp in the world to picture an airplane (captioned as "aeroplane carrying mail"), one of the...

web}}: CS1 maint: others (link) "First Man on the Moon" 10₵ United States Air Mail stamp Archived 2012-08-23 at the Wayback Machine does not identify Armstrong...

Post Office issued the Statue of Liberty Forever stamp on December 1, 2010. The stamp shows the replica of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening...

the 1897 Congress of the Universal Postal Union (the international convention responsible for securing efficiency in the flow of mail from country to country...

the Flag at Ground Zero is a photograph by Thomas E. Franklin of The Record newspaper of Bergen County, New Jersey, taken on September 11, 2001. The picture...

who habitually used them on his mail bombs. Stamps of the series: 1¢ green - Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States 1¼¢ light green...

98% of the proceeds of each sale going to the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund. President Herbert Hoover signed the Migratory Bird Conservation Act in...

the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and...

of the Union Address. January 5 – Coolidge nominates Harlan F. Stone to the U.S. Supreme Court. February 2 – Coolidge signs the Air Mail Act of 1925 into...

ready use in the hands of small commercial firms and with the newly founded regional airlines. When the Air Mail Act of 1925 came into force, Walter...

group of Los Angeles entrepreneurs founded Western Air Express and the airport to cash in on the Air Mail Act of 1925 that opened up bidding on air mail contracts...

to the Douglas M-2. The Contract Air Mail Act of 1925 set out the gradual privatization of the Post Office's Air Mail routes. In late 1926, bids were requested...

Classics series of commemorative postage stamps was issued by the United States Postal Service on October 1, 1995, to honor the centennial of the newspaper...

a secure engraver and printer, and assisting the newly formed First Bank of the United States to design and produce more counterfeit resistant currency...

Bicentennial stamps of 1932 are postage stamps issued by the United States government in 1932 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of U.S. President George...

The postage stamps and postal system of the Confederate States of America carried the mail of the Confederacy for a brief period in U.S. history. Early...

1932 'United States of America' stamp for 18 centavos in the Philippines, 1930 stamps for use in Guam only designated 'Guam Guard Mail, or 1952 'Ryukyus'...

5-cent value was for regular mail to the US, and the 13-cent value was for mail to the US East Coast, combining the 5 cents of Hawaiian postage, a 2-cent...

implemented the Kelly Air Mail Act in 1925 which induced competition amongst airlines and eventually led to the expansion from carrying mail to carrying people...

Territory. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed the Kelly Act (officially the Air Mail Act of 1925) into law twp months after the legislation had been introduced...

Space Shuttle Program Issue of 2000 In November 1997, to commemorate achievements of Mars Pathfinder program, $3 Priority Mail stamp was issued, and 15 million...

the Post Office Department) one year after the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in an airplane crash. The stamp, showing...

achievements of the Air Mail Service included the establishment of a transcontinental route and the development of airway lighting. In 1925, the Airmail Act of 1925...