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Agreed. I don't think they get enough acknowledgement.

When I was in the service overseas, the USPS was a lifeline. Thanks to special arrangements between the military and the USPS, I could have anything shipped from the states to wherever I was in the world for the same rate it'd have cost to have it sent to NYC--usually with only a week or so extra shipping time added.

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One particular of my book sales was to a military address [one of many but this one stood out]. I go to USPS to ship and the clerk asks me if I'd like to do an "air drop". Uhm, what? "Oh it costs about the same but it's dropped from a helicopter and takes less time" was very roughly what was explained to me. "Please, let's do that" and we did. My first and last and the option was quite cool.

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