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Post by kansaskyle on Oct 12, 2015 17:28:04 GMT
A friend from church is deploying to Kuwait, and he has an APO address.
Do I stick a normal stamp on it since it has a 09366 zip code?
How long does it take military snail mail to reach Kuwait I wonder? He arrives later this month, and I thought it might be neat for him to have a letter there soon after he arrives.
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Post by ladytiger7647 on Oct 12, 2015 22:38:55 GMT
An APO address has the same rates as domestic mail. When looking at the postage calculator on the USPS' website it lists it with domestic mail.
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Post by kansaskyle on Oct 13, 2015 5:08:59 GMT
An APO address has the same rates as domestic mail. When looking at the postage calculator on the USPS' website it lists it with domestic mail. Thanks for confirming. Maybe it goes to a military end point first in the states and then they distribute it abroad?
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Post by MrAndersen on Oct 13, 2015 11:27:56 GMT
Maybe it goes to a military end point first in the states and then they distribute it abroad? As I understand it, that's precisely the case. Troops are inherently mobile, and any address other than 'The Army' can't be expected to be reliable. Then there's the logistics too, of course, since any deployment will have supply lines, even though civilian traffic might not even go to that particular country or region.
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Post by skye on Oct 13, 2015 23:07:06 GMT
if i remember correctly the AE (Army Europe?) mail goes through NY before the military takes possession and it goes through their system. The same for AP (army pacific?) through california..
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Post by kansaskyle on Oct 14, 2015 13:30:40 GMT
My friend is in the Navy, so I looked up what AE means. Per this site,
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Post by orpilorp on Jan 17, 2016 16:37:30 GMT
There can be quite a time lag in APO mailings. I know of a woman who once sent cookies to her brother in the Air Force. They were so stale by the time they reached him that in his thank you letter he mentioned that the cookies would be used as bombs.
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