A friend's letter made me wonder just how it got here. Poking around on the dumptruck internet I ran into this vintage postcard showing the first airmail route between England and India, operated by Imperial Airways (today's British Airways) from 1931 with HP.42 biplanes. What a wonderfully romantic way to get mail when compared to Gmail and FedEx:
The precise route: London-Paris-Marseilles-Brindisi-Athens-Crete-Alexandria-Cairo-Gaza-Ar Rutba-Baghdad-Basra-Kuwait-Bahrain-Sharjah-Muscat-Gwadar-Karachi-Jodhpur.
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