Make sure your mail reaches our troops

Blackanthem Military News ^ | Nov 21, 2007 | USPS

[mdittmar]

Our troops look forward to receiving your letters and packages. That’s why it’s important to make sure your mail gets there, to the right person, in the right place.

The Department of Defense has issued the following guidelines for addressing your mail to military and civilian personnel deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Use the service member’s full name. The Department of Defense cancelled the Any Service Member program so mail must be addressed to someone specific.
   
Include the unit and APO/FPO (Air/Army Post Office or Fleet Post Office) address with the nine-digit ZIP Code™ (if one is assigned). Click-N-Ship® customers should be advised that the Postal Service and the Military will continue to add and update valid APO/FPO addresses for your online labels.
   
Include a return address.
   
For packages, print on one side only with the recipient’s address in the lower right portion or print a postage-paid label online with Click-N-Ship®. (Please note that ZIP Codes 093XX and 964XX are currently unavailable for electronic labels. We apologize for the inconvenience.)

Examples:

SSGT Kevin Taylor
Unit 2050 Box 4190
APO AP 96278-2050

SGT Robert Smith
PSC 802 Box 74
APO AE 09499-0074

Seaman Joseph Doe

USCGC Hamilton
FPO AP 96667-3931

SGT Jane Doe
CMR 1250
APO AA 09045-1000


Holiday Mailing Guidelines for Military Mail

1/ Express Mail Military Service (EMMS) is available to selected military post offices. Check with your local Post Office to determine if this service is available to your APO/FPO of address.

2/ Parcel Airlift Mail (PAL) is a service that provides air transportation for parcels on a space-available basis. It is available for Parcel Post items not exceeding 30 pounds in weight or 60 inches in length and girth combined. The applicable PAL fee must be paid in addition to the regular surface rate of postage for each addressed piece sent by PAL service.

3/ Space Available Mail (SAM) parcels paid at Parcel Post rate with maximum weight and size limits of 15 pounds and 60 inches in length and girth combined. SAM parcels are first transported domestically by surface and then to overseas destinations by air as space is available.

  

[mdittmar]

Yea,yea,yea,after all the funny comments,snide remarks,etc. about the United States Postal Service,maybe I'll tell ya' about my Dad;)

[HiJinx]

Military Christmas Mail BUMP!!!

We’re sending all our stuff out NLT end of next week.

[frankenMonkey]

More Good Stuff Here:

The U.S. Postal Service introduced a Military Care Kit, or "Mili-kit" to make it easier for military families and friends to send care packages to their loved ones stationed overseas. Since the inception of the Military Care Kit, the U.S. Postal Service has shipped more than 150,000 kits. Each kit contains two Priority Mail boxes, six Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes, eight Priority Mail labels, one roll of Priority Mail tape and eight customs forms with envelopes.

This kit may be ordered by calling the USPS Expedited Package Supply Center at 1-800-610-8734. There is no charge for the kit. The Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes included in the kit can be shipped to any APO/FPO in the world

Use the free flat rate boxes to send stuff for only $8.95 for up to 20 lbs. Currently boxes getting to Iraq in only a week! You can also pick up the boxes at an Post Office.