It was during the Age of the Iron Horse that delivery really started to pick up, in fact, the United States transported most bulk mail by train for nearly 100 years.
还是在铁马的时代间,邮递真正发展,事实上,美国通过火车运输大部分的大宗邮件将近100年。The first airmail service didn't start until 1918。第次航空邮件服务(没有)直到1918年。
It turned out to be routine, I sent a wire to an agency in Honolulu and followed it with an airmail containing the photos and whatever information I had left out of the wire.
That was the first and last I saw of him; after that, I heard from him only through the occasional letter, written on thin blue airmail paper that was preprinted to fold and address without an envelope.