1974 Airmail: Globe & Jet, U.N.

 1974 United Nations Airmails

As with most airmail stamps, this set shows the link between flight and the mail.  The 13¢ pictures a globe and jet and the 26¢ has a bird in flight with the U.N. Headquarters in the background.

Airmail plays a large part in the modern postal system. Large trucks carry the mail to airports, where it is loaded onto planes. Since 1975, nearly all first class mail going more than 200 miles has traveled by plane.