Keystone B-6 twin-engine airmail plane in snow storm, 1920.jpg.
In fact, some airlines are even now using entire aircraft to fly mail as route networks across the country are slashed. The Air Mail scandal, also known as the Air Mail fiasco, is the name that the American press. During the fiscal year 1916 funds were made available for the payment of. Rather than trying to fill up a large cargo jet like a Boeing 777F or 747-8F or Airbus A300 with low-revenue mail, it is cheaper and more efficient to fly that mail on a passenger jet, where an airline that already has the ground game and the route set up and will probably have some room for box or bag of mail. PILOT EARL OVINGTON receiving the first pouch of air mail letters ever flown in. So, with small pieces of mail going to a variety of different destinations, it is much easier for the USPS to reach agreements with airlines to fly packages where they need to go. So, flying a cargo aircraft across the country carrying only mail would be a massive waste of money, and the USPS would need to then optimize as a shipping company to make things work, which is rife with competition as is. These packages are all going to different destinations and do not yield as much revenue as larger pieces of cargo. Most mail that the USPS transports is small.
Photo: Ken Fielding via Wikimedia Commons There were only a few 727s that flew in a USPS livery.
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