Description: 1939 U.S. to England Northern Trans-Atlantic First Flight envelope.F.A.M. 18United States Air MailFirst FlightU.S. to England Interestingly, this 1939 envelope commemorating the first Trans-Atlantic air mail voyage bears a stamp commemorating the 1935 first Trans-Pacific Air Mail voyage #C20 - 1935 25c Trans-Pacific blue Background: The Post Office Department designated any contract air mail route flown by an airline into/from a foreign country into/from the US as a "Foreign Air Mail" route. The Foreign Air Mail routes became known as FAM's. FAM-18: FAM-18 was awarded to Pan American Airways. (source: https://www.aerodacious.com/FAM018.HTM) I recently found this envelope amongst my late grandmother’s stamp collection through which I am working on sorting. I would very much like to see these items find a home with someone who will appreciate them. If this information does not answer all your questions, I invite you to inquire further. I try to familiarize myself with the things I post & utilize my preferred internet search engine of choice to learn more about it but I am a country mile away from being considered anything near an expert & thus am eager to learn from those who are. You, dear reader, likely know much more than me about this item than me. If you feel I missed something or am in any inaccurate, I am keen to hear from you! Please, if the spirit moves you to do so, send me a note & share your thoughts with me. Thanks for stopping by & have a wonderful day. God bless! For those of you visiting this item who are not also eBay sellers, I want to share with you a little information about the fees eBay collects from us sellers. eBay charges a "Final Value Fee" of 13.25% on not just the price of the stamp, but also on shipping and taxes. Plus a 40¢ "per order fee" (on orders >$10, otherwise 30¢.) This means eBay charges sellers 13.25% of what buyers pay in shipping and taxes, money that sellers never see or touch. So, in reality, the actual eBay tax rate is over 16.3% of the final sale price of the item. And fees paid to eBay by sellers are nearly 23% higher than if eBay just taxed sellers for the final sale price of the item. EXAMPLE: I sell a widget for $45, and the buyer also pays $4.55 in shipping and $2.70 in sales tax. eBay charges me a 13.25% fee of $52.25, the combined total of the item itself, taxes & shipping. Meaning that net of fees I receive $37.68 from the sale of that $45 widget, meaning 16.3% of the price of the widget goes to eBay in the form of fees. $45 @ 13.25% = $5.96 in fees if fees were based only on the sale price of the widget $45 + $4.55 + $2.70 = $52.25 total of the sale price of the widget, plus shipping and taxes $52.25 @ 13.25% + $0.40 "per order fee" per order fixed amount = $7.32 total fees paid by seller to eBay $7.32/$45 = 16.3% actual eBay fee as a percentage of the widget's sale price $7.32 - $5.96 = $1.36 in additional fees paid on shipping and taxes $1.12/$6.72 = 22.8% higher fees on the combined sale price of the widget, shipping and taxes than if the fee was only paid on the sale price of the widget. $45 - $7.32 = $37.68 is the net profit received by a seller after eBay fees (83.7% of the sale price)
Price: 25 USD
Location: Saint Charles, Illinois
End Time: 2024-09-02T21:08:10.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Place of Origin: United States
Event: First Flight
