SuperLetter.com, Inc. Gets the Mail Through to U.S. Marines in Iraq and Back.
ORMOND BEACH, Fla., March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Since December 2004, over one million letters have taken a high-tech route to send free mail to U.S. Marines in Iraq, thanks to SuperLetter.com, Inc.'s (http://www.superletter.biz) highly acclaimed U.S. Marine Corps MotoMail service (http://www.motomail.us). Now deployed Marines can use the MotoMail system to send letters home as well.
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Press Release Source: SuperLetter.com, Inc.
Tuesday March 28, 7:45 am ET
Although current regulations and lack of funding prohibit U.S. military personnel from sending letters via MotoMail home to family and friends for free, SuperLetter.com is now using the MotoMail system to enable deployed Marines to send "hybrid" mail back to the U.S. for just the cost of postage, stationery and printing.
Based on the award-winning e-bluey system (http://www.ebluey.com) developed by SuperLetter.com and the British Forces Post Office in 2000, the MotoMail service allows families and friends of overseas Marines to create free online accounts with their loved ones' names, ranks and unit address details and compose letters on a secure Web site. Each letter is uploaded to the server fully encrypted, where it is stored until the Postal Unit closest to that address in theater downloads, prints, folds and seals the letter on a fully integrated, secure machine. The letter's contents are never viewable by the machines' operators and are completely private. It is then hand-delivered to the recipient's unit. For those sending letters to deployed Marines, the service is entirely free.
"We hope the service will eventually be free both ways," stated SuperLetter.com, Inc. founder and CEO Christopher Schultheiss. "But this is a start. We recognize that receiving physical letters from their Marines via the U.S. Postal Service is still very important to people whose loved ones are serving overseas, so SuperLetter.com is making it easy for time-crunched servicemen and women to send those letters. MotoMail combines PCs and the Internet with good, old-fashioned printed letters and physical 'last-mile delivery' to send real mail right to the mailboxes of U.S. Marines' families and friends."
Under SuperLetter.com's current program, U.S. Marines overseas can send the first five letters for free; subsequent letters are fifty cents each to cover the basic costs of postage, stationery and printing. In early trials, letters from Iraq are being delivered to most parts of the U.S. within 24 to 96 hours. To learn more, visit http://www.superletter.biz.