Many US airlines began their existence carrying mail across the States. While there were airborne postal services as early as 1911, commercial operations started with the first revenue airmail flight on February 15, 1926, after the Contract Air Mail Act of 1925 handed over mail service to private contractors. Correspondence from New York could now arrive on the West Coast in two days instead of the five it took for it to get there by rail.
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