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Jamaica: Air Mail

First Services
First Inbound Mail from the North, By Pan American

Mail was carried from Miami on 2 Dec 1930, staying overnight in Cuba, via Jamaica to Cristobal, Canal Zone arriving 3 Dec.
Mail was dropped off at Jamaica but none was picked up (due to no outgoing mail contract having commenced with Pan Am.)
4,767 items of mail were destined for Kingston.

Miami (2 Dec 1930) to Kingston (3 Dec 1930)

FAM 5 from Miami on 2 Dec. via Cuba, to Kingston, arriving 3 Dec.
The black cachet was usually applied to mail originating at Miami.
A violet cachet was usually applied to mail via Miami.
Consolidated Commodore (NC668M) being loaded with mails at Miami, 2 Dec 1930

Pilots and airmen were treated as ‘A’ list celebrities at this time.

Scan of violet cachet on the reverse applied at Kingston.

plus machine cancel, ‘11 am 3 Dec 1930’
‘Spend Your Vacation in Summerland’.

Left to right
Radio Operator Wenstern, Co-Pilot Fatt, Pilot Schulz,
Miami Postmaster Pittman plus friends.