Sentences with phrase «airmail letters»

I'm all about the instant gratification; I started out as a writer using golfball typewriters, and communicated with my publishers and literary agent via airmail letters, and telegrams.

The postal service proudly reported $ 7.5 million in earnings last year, partly because it charges the equivalent of 40 cents for airmail letters to America.

Once, postage was determined by the number of sheets within an envelope and not by weight — actually, I remember pre-stamped, blue, airmail letter «envelopes» that allowed for no enclosures and offered you only a single sheet to write on — and so the frugal took to cross-writing, i.e. turning the written - on page 90 degrees and simply writing across the earlier text.