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Military mail is a special military postal system used to integrate the civil postal system in a given country with that country's military posted overseas. Many nations have special systems to transport mail to and from their soldiers stationed abroad. Mail bound for military destinations overseas is normally transported to a designated main office in the home country for consolidation, after which it is transported to the foreign destination, where it is sorted and delivered by military postal clerks to individual recipients. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 428 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,500 × 2,100 pixels, file size: 842 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)060828-N-2716P-014 Yokohama, Japan (Aug. ...
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A primary feature of military mail systems is that normally they are subsidized to ensure that military mail posted between duty stations abroad and the home country (or vice versa) does not cost the sender any more than normal domestic mail traffic. In some cases, military personnel in a combat zone may post letters and/or packages to the home country for free, while in others, senders located in a specific overseas area may send military mail to another military recipient, also located in the same overseas area, without charge. Additionally, military postal systems in a host nation may have special agreements with that host nation's postal service allowing military postal customers to send mail to addresses in that host nation at the military's domestic postage rate using their own postage and currency.
The first known use of military mail was by the Egyptian army in 2000 B.C.[citation needed] Modern military mail is used by various armies, and in some nations may even vary depending on the branch of service. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...
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British military postal services
The origins of the British military postal services can be traced back to Saxon times. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle make mention of messengers being sent by king Edward the Elder (899-924) to recall members of the Kent fyrd, but it is generally regarded that the origins of the postal services stem from the Kings Messengers (or Nuncii et Cursores) of medieval times. The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle. ...
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In Saxon times, defenses were based upon the housecarls, who were the professional soldiers of the king, and the fyrd, a militia of all able-bodied men that was called up from the districts threatened with attack. ...
The provision of a mail service to soldiers was a very ad hoc affair until 1882 when the Army Post Office Corps (APOC) was raised from 24th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers to accompany the British Expeditionary Force sent to Egypt in the same year. Its task was to perform "Postal Duties in the Field". The 24th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers was recruited entirely from the staff of the British General Post Office, and was commanded by Lt Col JL du Plat Taylor, whose idea it was to have a Postal Corps. The term General Post Office is or has been used by a number of postal and telecommunications governmental administrations worldwide, including: United Kingdom until 1969, see Post Office UK. After 1981 see Royal Mail for a continuing history of the British Post Office. ...
In 1913 the Army Post Office Corps was re-organised to form the Royal Engineers (Postal Section), under a Director of the Army Postal Service (DAPS), Lt Col W Price RE. The service remained part of the Royal Engineers until it was transferred to the Royal Logistics Corps on its formation in 1993. The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army. ...
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army. ...
The Royal Logistic Corps is a British military unit that provides the logistics for other units in the British military. ...
At the end of the First World War (1914-18) the Royal Engineers (Postal Section) along with the Royal Air Force (RAF) helped to pioneer international airmail services, by setting up airmail routes between Folkstone, England and Cologne (Köln), Germany to service the British Army of the Rhine. During the Second World War (1939-45) they popularised the aérogramme, when they adopted it as the Air Mail Letter Card in 1941 to reduce the bulk and weight of mail so that it could be transported by air. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...
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GB Christmas Aerogram (date?) An aerogram is a thin piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter for transit via airmail, in which the letter and envelope are one and the same. ...
In 1962 the Royal Engineers (Postal & Courier Communications), took over the responsibility for handling the Royal Navy’s mail and thereby became a provider of a tri-service facility based in the old Middlesex Regiment's Depot at Mill Hill. Most of the 'Posties' in the hanger like sorting office were female. This article is about the navy of the United Kingdom. ...
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Please improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. (May 2007) | German Army uses a system called Feldpost, where all mail to missions or from missions is sent to Darmstadt (near Frankfurt am Main). From here the outgoing mail is sent via land or air to the different locations abroad. These are actually Kosovo, Bosnia, Afghanistan and until December 2006 the Democratic Republic of the Congo. All mail gets a special cancellation with text "Feldpost" and a number of four digits (64nn - nn = location of mission). The postage for mail via German APO is as if you send a letter within Germany. The German APO has the same service as civil offices. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
A German Feldpost Postage stamp from World War II. Feldpost is the German military mail service. ...
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Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ...
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Please improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. (May 2007) | Largely based on the system followed in the British Indian Army the Indian Military has a Postal Service Corps which handles the mails for the three defence forces (Army, Navy, Air Force). The Corps how ever is part of the Indian Army, and is staffed by volunteers from the civil Department of Posts. Mails written to soldiers on field posting do not contain their regular postal address, but their number, rank, name, and Unit number ending with a suffix - "c/o xxx A.P.O". Soldiers are also not allowed to send mails from regular civil Post Offices even if their area of duty have such facilities. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
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United States Military Postal Services Until 1980, each U.S. military service managed its own military mail program. In 1980, the Department of Defense (DoD) designated the Secretary of the Army as the single military mail manager. The Military Postal Service Agency (MPSA) was created to perform this task, with a jointly-staffed headquarters located in the National Capital Region. MPSA is required to adhere to United States Postal Service (USPS) rules, federal laws, and various international laws and agreements for movement of military mail into over 85 countries. MPSA is the single DoD point of contact with the USPS. It conducts DoD contingency planning and provides postal support to theater Combatant Commanders through Services' theater postal commands. It serves as a proponent of DoD's cost control policy for DoD official mail and as the functional director for military mail. MPSA also monitors transportation funds dedicated to overseas mail movement. The United States Department of Defense, abbreviated DoD or DOD and sometimes called the Defense Department, is a civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government. ...
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In addition to supporting U.S. military installations overseas, the MPSA also supports mail delivery to and from U.S. diplomatic facilities abroad and, of course, to deployed personnel in combat zones worldwide. In most (but not all) locations, special services such as Express Mail, registered mail, certified mail, money orders, etc. are offered. Mail sent from one Military Postal Office to another Military Postal Office in the same theater (For example, mail from a military post office in Japan to another military post office in Singapore.) can be sent for free with a handling priority equal to Space Available Mail (SAM, Parcel Post, Standard Mail, or Third Class) for packages and a handling priority equal to First Class for letters and flats. Through the furnishing of overseas transport and delivery services for U.S. military mail between the U.S. and overseas duty stations, postage rates are equivalent to U.S. domestic postage rates. All military mail between the U.S. and overseas locations is subject to customs inspection in the country of destination, and customs declarations must normally be attached to packages and larger mail pieces. Some host nations may restrict or prohibit the mailing or receipt of certain items, such as pornography, meat products (especially pork), firearms, tobacco, etc.), via the U.S. military postal system. In most postal systems Express mail refers to an accelerated delivery service for which the customer pays a surcharge and receives faster delivery. ...
Registered mail sent from Baghdad to San Francisco in August 1945 Registered items of mail are letters which have their details recorded in a register to enable their location to be tracked. ...
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In accordance with treaties and other international agreements, use of U.S. military postal services overseas is normally restricted to authorized customers, i.e., U.S. personnel (military, civilian and diplomatic) stationed overseas (either permanently or temporarily) and their dependents. Retired U.S. military personnel living overseas may also have limited access to the military postal service, depending on their country of residence.
Overseas military post offices operated or supported by the Army or Air Force use the city abbreviation APO [Army Post Office / Air (Force) Post Office], while overseas military post offices operated or supported by the Navy, Marine Corps or U.S. Coast Guard use the city abbreviation FPO (Fleet Post Office). Three quasi-State codes have been assigned depending on the (approximate) geographic location of the military mail recipient and also the carrier route to be taken. They are:
- AE (Armed Forces Europe / Canada / Middle East / Africa)
- AP (Armed Forces Pacific)
- AA (Armed Forces Americas)
Examples A German Feldpost Postage stamp from World War II. Feldpost is the German military mail service. ...
The British Forces Post Office (BFPO) is an agency that provides a postal service to HM Forces, separate from that provided by Royal Mail in the United Kingdom. ...
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The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. ...
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