Please contact Mail Services for any questions or requests. The USPS blue mail box located behind Lankford on Redford street and across from the Library, is picked up Monday through Saturday at 2 p.m. Outgoing US Mail deposited in the receptacle in the Longwood University Mail Services lobby is dispatched Monday - Friday at 4:00 PM. Stamps for personal use will not be delivered by Mail Services staff. All packages MUST be ready to ship as no packaging supplies are available for sale.ĭepartmental stamp purchases can be made by using your departmental purchase card in person at the US Post Office located at 301 East Third Street in Farmville. Packages and letters are accepted for all domestic and international locations. Stamps are available for sale during regular window hours Monday - Friday 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM.
Longwood University Mail Services offers all USPS services except Postal money orders, Registered mail, and Delivery Confirmation. Record tracking number and address for your files. Form InstructionsĬomplete both the green and white portions. Order your supply of Custom Form PS2976 from Mail Services at 395-2116. This is a two part form and must be intact when mailed. Mail Services will return Airmail Packages that do not have the PS 2976 Form attached. This form, to be completed by the sender in each department, must be applied before Mail Services processes the package. Postal Service is requiring Custom Form PS 2976 to be prepared by the sender for each international package. If not using official "Air Mail" envelopes, the next best option would be to purchase a hand stamp with the words "Air Mail" or "Par Avon". These envelopes tend to stand out and are easily recognized by postal employees. Mail Services strongly encourages the use of official "Air Mail" envelopes. Place the endorsement on both the front and back of the mail piece. Without the endorsement, the mail pieces end up in the domestic mail stream, causing delays. If you are sending mail overseas, it is important that it is marked "Air Mail" or "Par Avon". Photo: Loading mail sacks onto an airplane near Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1920s.When preparing Air Mail for processing through Mail Services, please remember to separate and band from other outgoing mail.
#Usps airmail archive#
Postal Service celebrates the centennial with a new Forever stamp, we dug into our archive to showcase stories on the dramatic early days of airmail service, which transformed aviation almost as much as it did communications. With aircraft like the Boeing 40C and Stearman Speedmail, and with pilots like Charles Lindbergh, contract mail carriers laid the foundation for the most expansive national air transportation system in the world.Īs the U.S. Related Contentīy 1927, the Post Office had nursed the airmail service through its infancy and was ready to hand it off to private companies, like Boeing Air Transport and National Air Transport, which eventually developed into United Airlines. It took two more years of dogged effort and experimentation, marred by dozens of crashes and 16 fatalities, for the service to fly the mail all the way across the country. and New York City, with a stop in Philadelphia. Post Office inaugurated regular airmail service, using Curtiss JN-4H biplanes to fly between Washington, D.C.
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