Airmail: The allure regarding the long-distance air letter
The woman that is young the desk inside my local post office looked bewildered. “I think we’ve got some somewhere”, she mumbled before returning with a pile of dusty envelopes. “Nobody really asks of these any more,” she admitted.
A century ago this month the world’s very air that is first service began
Passed beneath the counter and into my hand was a typical example of a mode of communication which have all but vanished. Because of Skype, texts and e-mails, there’s little need anymore for the small pale blue envelopes using the diagonal red and blue stripes round the border, extra thin blue writing paper and multitude of stamps and post marks that constitutes an air mail letter. Dr. Richard Saundry, editor associated with the British Air Mail Society Journal, believes that we’re in danger of losing something both romantic and powerful.
“I think it is very regrettable that nobody generally seems to use air mail any more”, he informs me. “We are now living in a rather lazy age now the other has been lost. There’s a thrill that is huge excitement, and a kind of romance in receiving an air mail letter through the opposite side around the globe in your door mat. The internet just can’t replace that.”
A century ago this month the world’s very air that is first service began. Flying from Allahabad, near Delhi, only seven years after the Wright brothers made their first forays to the air, the plane, flown by a pilot that is french Henri Pequet, travelled 15 miles to Naini. On board were six and a half thousand letters including one published by Motilal Nehru, father associated with first president of independent India.