Aimail - What planes in use in Canada/USA?

[conundrum 49]

What planes do the USPS and Canada Post use to deliver airmail? If they use outside contracters, who are they and what planes do they use?

[greggerm 312]

Airmail is typically delivered in the spacious bellies of your typical airliner. Surprisingly enough, airlines make a good deal of money from cargo - postal cargo included. Unless you're in the backwoods of Alaska or the Northwest Territories (and like terrain), mail is tagging along on a passenger flight as it works its way to its destination!There are bush pilots who fly mail around in the hinterlands, usually flying STOL-capable single engine planes and good rough-and-tumble airplanes built for such conditions. -Greg

[scott967 62]

USPS has contracted with Fedex for quite a while. Don't know what proportion of mail goes with them though.scott s..

[Captain Kevin 586]

I think American does some of it, too. At least, they said it in the documentary about American Airlines: A Week in the Life, anyway.