APO 887 PARIS, FRANCE 1945 WWII Army Cover 11th BPO V-MAIL letter to APO 32

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APO 887 PARIS, FRANCE 1945 WWII Army Cover 11th BPO V-MAIL letter to APO 32 :
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It was sent 13 Jul 1945. It was franked \"Air Mail\". It was sent from Tommy Reams to Jake Theobald at Anabat, Luzon.

This cover is in good, but NOT perfect condition. Please look at the scan and make your own judgement.

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Military mail, as opposed to civilian mail, refers to thepostal servicesprovided byarmed forces, that allow serving members to send and receive mail.

Military mail systems are often subsidized to ensure that military mail 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.

Modern military mail services are provided by mostarmed forcesaround the world. In some nations, individual service branches may run their own military mail program.

Contents[hide]

1History
- 1.1Beginnings
- 1.2Modern military mail provision
2Selected modern services
- 2.1British Forces Post Office (BFPO)
- 2.2German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr)
- 2.3Indian Army Postal Service Corps
- 2.4U.S. Military Postal Service (MPS)
3Classified information
4Examples
5See also
6Notes and references
7Further reading
8External links

History[edit]Clerks organising mail at a post office in London, circa 1808.

In 1795 Parliament granted the penny postage concession to soldiers and sailors of theBritish ArmyandRoyal Navy.[3]Four years later, in 1799, theDuke of Yorkappointed Henry Darlot, an ‘intelligent clerk’ from theGeneral Post Office(GPO) as the Army Postmaster to accompany his expedition to Helder.[4]

Thomas Reynolds, as the British Post Office Agent inLisbon, Portugal was made responsible for coordinating the exchange of the British Army’s mails at the port during thePeninsular War(1809–14). Two Sergeant Postmasters were appointed to work with Reynolds. The sergeants reported to theDuke of Wellington’s the Superintendent of Military Communications, Major Scovell and later Lieutenant Colonel Sturgeon.[5]

After complaints about the mail services to the British troops fighting in the Crimean War (1854–56) the Postmaster General authorised the secondment of GPO staff to organise and distribute mail in the theatre of war. A Base Army Post Office was established inConstantinopleand a field post Office with the Army Headquarters atBalaklava.[6]

A regular seaborne mail service was established between Varna and Constantinople. In response to demands made byFlorence Nightingale, a method of transmitting money was devised to allow troops to transfer monies back to their families at home in the United Kingdom. This was designed to prevent drunkenness. In its first month of operation £7,000 was remitted by the British troops.

Modern military mail provision[edit]British Forces Post Office (BFPO)[edit]This sectiondoes notciteanysources.Please help improve this section byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged andremoved.(May 2007)Main article:Feldpost

TheBundeswehr\'smilitary mail system is known in German asFeldpost; all mail to or from missions abroad is sent toDarmstadt(nearFrankfurt am Main), where outbound mail is sent via land or air to theBundeswehr\'soverseas stations, and inbound mail is dispatched to German domestic addresses, or to foreign destinations.

These includeKosovo,Bosnia, andAfghanistan.Feldpostaddresses consist of the word\"Feldpost\"and a four-digit number beginning with \"64\" followed by two additional digits denoting the specific mission (e.g., 6401, etc.). Postal rates for theFeldpostare the same as domestic German postal rates. TheFeldpostoffers the same service to its customers as theDeutsche Postdoes within Germany.

Indian Army Postal Service Corps[edit]This sectiondoes notciteanysources.Please help improve this section byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged andremoved.(June 2013)Marines from4th Marine Divisionset up a post office to distributeairdroppedmail during theBattle of Iwo Jima

The MPS is required to adhere toUnited States Postal Service(USPS) rules, federal laws, and various international laws and agreements for movement of military mail into more than 85 countries. The individual military services (Army,Marine Corps,Navy,Coast Guard,Air Force) are each, themselves, responsible for the costs, manpower, and facilities of mail that travels through their own department. This is why the military services maintains command and control over all military postal assets, both in the United States and abroad.

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Military mail was subjected to censorship when it was the primary means for deployed servicemen to communicate with their families. The following text was printed on the message (non-address) side of standardized postcard \"Subron 4 Standard Form No. F14 471-A-S/M Base. PH-7-15-41-20M.\" distributed to naval personnel at Pearl Harbor to communicate with their families following theAttack on Pearl Harbor:[11]