I wanna send birthday card to US serviceman in Iraq

nuttywoman

Its my son-in-law and his birthday next month so i`d like to send him a card & small present.
Is it possible? daft question i know,lol, but i don`t know if there`s a procedure to follow & hope someone does.
It may be, that i just take the stuff to post office.
thanks

Nile

Hello nuttywoman

Maybe someone on the 'UK Armed Forces' board will be able to help you.;)

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minirolo2004

Do you have his address? No different to sending a parcel to a friend abroad. If you keep it under 2kg you can send it for free!

Andy_L

Tricky one, if he's attached to a UK unit then you can use the British Forces Post Office (BFPO) address.
http://www.bfpo.mod.uk/index.html
If not then you might get away with posting it via BFPO if they have an office wherever he's based.

Probably best to contact their enquiries team on 08457 69 79 78

EnglishRose001

minirolo2004 wrote: »

Do you have his address? No different to sending a parcel to a friend abroad. If you keep it under 2kg you can send it for free!

Not to a US soldier. Unless as the previous poster suggests, that he is attached to a UK unit and is part of a BFPO.

If not you would need to send it to his APO address. I'm not sure if there are concessions for US military via Royal Mail but it really wouldn't cost very much to send a card

Alias_Omega

Your best bet is to send it to some place like mildenhall or lakenheath, where they can pass it on free of charge.

I would ring up lakenheath, ask for the postal section / office and explain what you are trying to do. Make it clear that if you can send them that parcel, they can open it, check the contents and forward the item to you.

They may come up with an answer themselves.

Lakenheath information

http://www.lakenheath.af.mil/

Mildenhall information

http://www.mildenhall.af.mil/

Alias_Omega

Incase you struggle..

RAF Mildenhall
Bury St. Edmunds,
IP28 8NG
01638 543000

nuttywoman

Thanks for your answers folks, thats brilliant help xxx

nuttywoman

Alias_Omega wrote: »

Your best bet is to send it to some place like mildenhall or lakenheath, where they can pass it on free of charge.

I would ring up lakenheath, ask for the postal section / office and explain what you are trying to do. Make it clear that if you can send them that parcel, they can open it, check the contents and forward the item to you.

They may come up with an answer themselves.

Lakenheath information

http://www.lakenheath.af.mil/

Mildenhall information

http://www.mildenhall.af.mil/

Update for you all, hubby rang mildenhall but got put through to germany who then said they were`nt allowed to put him through to the postal section and gave him phone number for staff duty in iraq.
I`ll just have to see if i can post the card but we wanted to know as well for sending out his xmas present.
Thanks anyway.

Andy_L

If you're daughters in the States you could post it to her & then she could post it into the US military system. An expensive faff but should work.

nuttywoman

Andy_L wrote: »

If you're daughters in the States you could post it to her & then she could post it into the US military system. An expensive faff but should work.

Thanks, but she`s in germany,lol, seems like a xmas i`ll post his present to her to send on.