Some, Including Vets, Could Lose Access to Military Mail Service Overseas

This might impact some people who retire overseas...Military retirees have taken the review and the revision to mean that they are losing a benefit that allows them to send and receive mail up to one pound at domestic rates through Fleet Post Office (FPO) and Army Post Office (APO) mailboxes.

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Two retiree groups in the Pacific have alerted members that they will lose their privileges as of Aug. 24. And last week, a postal superintendent at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, told Stars and Stripes that retirees, widows and non-governmental organizations like the Red Cross would lose overseas mail privileges as of that date.