The Twenty-five-cent Prexie

Airmail to Asia

Airmail letters were twenty-five cents per half ounce to Asia, other than Turkey, from November 1, 1946 until July 1, 1971.

A cover sent airmail from Amsterdam, NY to Colombo, Ceylon in 1951.

Airmail from Puerto Rico to British North Borneo in 1949. U.S. possessions used the same rates as the mainland for airmail at that time.

A cover sent from Japan to Thailand through the APO system in 1951.

Postcards did not get their own foreign airmail rates until June 1, 1954, so this one was sent to Japan in 1952 for the full twenty-five-cent rate.

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