how do I get air mail?

Question

how high doe's the mail box have to be to get my air mail?

Answer 1

Silly, you need to use a net when they fly over and drop it.

Answer 2

I think you may be a little mixed up as to what air mail actually is.
I will try to clear things up for you. First of all, the placement of your mailbox has nothing to do with air mail.

Your mail box does not have to be placed high as an airplane is not really going to fly close enough to drop mail into your box, nor will the plane land so the pilot can walk your mail over to the mailbox.

Air mail means that mail - yours and many other people's - is
flown to the nearest town or city and then still taken to the post office in that town or city so that your mail can be delivered a little faster than normal. Sometimes, you have to go to the post office to pick up certain mail - such as registered mail or special delivery mail.

Most of the time, mail is sent by ground transportation as long as the distance isn't too far. For example, where I live, if I send a letter to someone 20 miles away from me, this is not going to end up on any airplane. A mail truck will pick it up and drive it to the nearest mail depot where my letter and others will be sorted and then hand delivered by someone driving another postal vehicle.

However, if I send a letter to someone 2,000 miles away, then a mail truck will still pick up my mail but it will first be sorted and then taken to the nearest airport where it is loaded into a special plane (Fedex for example, has their own fleet of planes). Then that plane will fly the 2,000 miles and drop off mail at the airport at that location where it will be sorted once again and still hand delivered by a postal carrier, either to the nearest post office to where you live or right to your mailbox depending on what kind of mail it is. If it is a parcel that is too big to fit in your mailbox, you may have to go to your post office to pick it up as the regular mail service will not leave the parcel at your door.

Other mail carriers such as UPS will leave a parcel at your door if you are not home even if it does not fit in the mailbox.

If you pay at the post office to have a letter sent air mail, the place you are mailing the letter to must be far enough away for it to actually be sent by air. This is simply because most mail is taken by planes anyway to its destination.

The post office is actually fooling a lot of people into paying to send something by air mail when as I have said, unless the distance is very short, it will be flown to its destination anyway.
If you receive a letter or bill of importance, look at the postmark at the top and see what date the letter was sent. If the letter came from Washington, D.C. and you live in Las Vegas, and the letter only took 3 days to reach you, please be assured that it was flown to the nearest postal outlet to where you live, not driven there.

Can you imagine how long it would take to get a letter from a friend or relative who lives 1,000 miles away if your letter was driven all the way there by a big truck considering it still has to be sorted and delivered? No one would get any mail for days and days, maybe weeks.

Anyway, the point is that your mailbox and where it is located has nothing to do with air mail. As long as your mailbox is placed at the easiest location on your lot for the mail carrier to put it in the box, this is fine.

I hope I have cleared things up a little bit.

Answer 3

It should be air tight - not too high!

Answer 4

It depends on how close your mailbox is to the airport.

Answer 5

to high

Answer 6

Not any higher than you are.

Answer 7

THROW YOUR LETTER.