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Anair mail facility is an installation forairmails of the United States.
With the establishment of the first air-mail route in1918, and the later additional routes, plus the accepted use of premium-priced air mail by the public, it was only natural that theRailway Mail Service (RMS), being in charge of transit mail, was assigned the task of establishingair mail field (AMF) postal facilities at the major airports. Only outgoing air mail was distributed at these workrooms, channeled there by both the post offices andrailway post office (RPO) routes. This mail was distributed and dispatched to other AMFs via the different flight connections. Incoming mail from other AMFs was distributed by general scheme and pouched to outgoing RPOs and necessary post offices. The Motor Vehicle Service provided frequent trips between the city post office and the AMF for air mail ground transportation. In 1951, there were 1200 clerks manning forty AMFs.
AMF continue to exist within theU.S. Postal Service (USPS) and are now called air mail centers (AMC).[1]
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