On August 30, 1934,
the US Post Office issued its first Airmail Special Delivery stamp.
Mail with this stamp would travel by plane to its designated post
office, where a messenger would then deliver it immediately to the
recipient.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was an avid
collector, designed the stamp himself! Its first day of sale, 88 years
ago, was at the convention of the American Air Mail Society in Chicago.
Two years later, the stamp was reprinted using two colors – carmine and
blue. Airmail special delivery stamps were only in use for a
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