!!!Luftpost

Air Mail: During the first World War air units carried parcels for the 
imperial army mail ("Fliegerpost"). Military aircraft transported 
civilian air mail for the imperial Austrian postal service from March 
31, 1918 on the route Vienna- Lvív- Kiev, at first, private 
mail was only transported to or from Lvív. The first air-mail 
postal stamps were overprint makeshifts. Austria was the first country 
in the world to introduce a civilian air mail service, followed by the 
USA, which introduced a similar service 6 weeks after Austria. Owing 
to the war the air mail service was suspended on October 15, 1918.


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