Send airmail to the US?

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If you want to send mail to the USA, you should be smart. Airmail is a variant, but is no longer the best or fastest order.

Unfortunately, the flag is not raised any faster by airmail.
Unfortunately, the flag is not raised any faster by airmail.

Airmail - what you should know about it

At the time before the fall of the Wall in Germany, it was still quite common to send private letters by airmail to the USA or to the countries of Africa and Asia as well as to Australia.

  • The airmail letters were written on special airmail letterhead.
  • It was like tissue paper, but firm enough to write on. There were also sheets of paper that you could write on 1 1/2 pages long and then fold up and glue to the edges. This made the postage particularly cheap.
  • At the same time you can still send normal letters with the addition "Airmail" to the USA and other countries. In the past, this usually cost a little more postage, as delivery should be faster. Still, it could take 2-3 weeks for a letter to arrive.
  • The airmail stamps were desirable for collectors of postage stamps and other things, as were the special airmail stickers on the letters. Today they are an even greater rarity.
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Mail routes to the USA - tips

The surcharge for airmail letters to the USA and all over the world has dropped in the course of postal development history. The fees just don't make sense anymore.

  1. Most normal mail is sent to the USA by air, and thus the fastest possible route - regardless of whether you have marked "Airmail" on it or not.
  2. There is therefore no longer a surcharge and no preferred, faster mail delivery by airmail to the USA or to other countries in general.
  3. So you can confidently hand your mail over to Deutsche Post and send it with the addition of "Airmail". The letters are sent by normal post, and parcels and parcels are then sent by the subcontractor DHL.
  4. Depending on the size of the package, it may happen that the ship's route is taken.
  5. You can better determine the postal route for your parcels if you use a parcel service such as B. Select UPS.
  6. The advantage of direct parcel delivery with UPS is that it is an American company that already transports many shipments to the USA and from the USA to Germany. Your package will probably arrive faster here.

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