US Marine Corp trials Free Next Day delivery for Mail to Marines at Camp Fox.

The USMC, the British Forces Post Office and SuperLetter.Com Inc. have teamed up to provide next day mail service to Marines deployed to Camp Fox in Kuwait.

(PRWEB) August 14, 2003

A trial hybrid mail service was launched August 1st by the United States Marine Corp to provide a mail service for Marines serving at (PRWEB) August, 2003 -- Camp Fox in Kuwait. The service is free to all family and friends for sending (and receiving) mail to and from Camp Fox and provided by US coalition allies, the British Forces Post Office and a privately owned US based company, SuperLetter.Com Inc., that has provided this service to British troops for almost 3 years. The President of SuperLetter.Com Inc., Bill Ramsay spent 3 days at Camp Lajeune at the invitation of Major Stephens and Captain Givens working with "Family Support " groups to assist them in teaching others how to use the service. Ramsay expects to visit other bases to provide similar training.

On the first day of the trial approximately a dozen letters were received and delivered to Camp Fox along with a test letter from USMC Major Stephens at Camp Lajeune mailed to Colonel Roberts at Camp Fox. Next Day Delivery half way around the world!

This trial of the highly successful service initiated by the British Forces is being watched carefully by all 5 branches of the US service in the hopes that it can be made available to all Operational US Service Personnel and their family and friends located anywhere in the World.

An excerpt from an article in the Times of London describes the Hybrid Mail service to the British Forces that enabled delivery of mail to British Troops in Iraq within 24 hours. Over a quarter of a million letters per month were delivered to 40,000 British troops during the height of the conflict and were often being received within hours.

To use the service please go to http://www.bfpo.org.uk and click on the "New Member Link" and follow the directions remembering to register as the USMC Trial.

The purpose of the trial is to gauge the popularity and usefullness of the service for permanemt application for the USMC and family and friends.

Further information can be obtained by contacting bramsay@superletter.com

The Times (of London)

April 09, 2003

A true bluey morale boost

By Jonathan Gornall

DEEP in the heart of Texas, two identical, powerful computer servers sit side by side in a nondescript industrial building, humming away quietly 24 hours a day and making the biggest single contribution of the war to the morale of the troops in the Gulf.

It would probably come as something of a shock to the flag-flying, yellow-ribbon-pinning patriotic folks of Dallas to learn that the only morale being boosted is that of the Brits.

Twice a day, working under canvas, each team in the Gulf logs on to Dallas and downloads the post for its BFPO number. The letters are printed out at the rate of 25 a minute, sorted into sacks and sent hurtling out across the desert to forward post offices., often on the back of off-road motorbikes. There, the eagerly awaited letters are collected by mail orderlies from individual units. Result: happy troops, and not a licked stamp in sight.

Typically, letters are being read within hours of being written. The record for an e-bluey delivery is ten minutes from send to delivery — admittedly to a soldier who happened to be walking past one of the field printer units in Afghanistan. The Gulf conflict is already spawning its own, possibly apocryphal, tales. Colonel Davis’s favourite is the wife who sent her husband the halftime score in last week’s England-Turkey football match. Allegedly, he received the e-bluey before the fulltime whistle had gone. "