How many stamps will i need to get a letter to a marine in Iraq?

Question

I know i asked this question already, but i got lots of conflicting answers. I went to the post office and asked the guy behind the counter about it, who said you need only one 37 cent stamp...but i've read in other places that i need closer to 80 cents....so now i'm wondering if he missed the "iraq" part of my question. Please help me out. (The letter, by the way, is just the standard sized deal...nothing huge)

Answer 1

OK hubby in the military and son serving abroad so do this pretty much at LEAST 3 times a week.

IF you have the APO address then ALL post, mailed in the USA will go via what the rate would be for sending anything to anyone in the USA regardless of where the military member is stationed so if its just a regular envelope with about 4 sheets of paper then 37 cents will be fine......ANYTHING else it is worth going to the post office and having it weighed......some cards cost more, if you put a few pics in it pushes up the weight, so you pay more etc.

Once you have done this via the post office a few times you will be able to gauge it better for your self.....you will also learn the rough length of posting time.......all mail posted to APO address leave the post office and are sent to a central sorting area in New York and sent from there.

Hope this helps you a little bit

Answer 2

Mail to our troops stays within the US Postal service until it is delivered, here in the United States, to the APO or FPO that is part of the address. That's the only postage required. The rest of the delivery happens within the military postal service. So, a standard stamp (they now cost 39 cents) will be fine for a standard letter.

Answer 3

Okay, I am a master at this, as I have sent 137 letters to Iraq, one for everyday my hubby has been gone.

All you need is a 39 cent stamp to mail a normal sized letter to APO, FPO addresses.

Now the packages, use a flat rate box. It will cost you $8.10 no matter the weight.

Answer 4

one stamp will work. the guy at the post office told you 37 cent and he even works there and dont even know that you cant send mail for 37 cent unless it's a post card and sometimes even then you cant. your normal 39 cent stamp will be fine and it will get to him in about a week maybe a little longer.

Answer 5

You're not mailing a letter to Iraq, you're mailing it to NY or San Francisco, so it's only 39 cents. The military collects all overseas mail at those two ports and ships it around the world. It's the same price to any service member anywhere in the world.

Answer 6

The Marine should have an APO address, so regular shipping rates will apply. It depends on the size of the letter, but a regular size letter takes just one stamp.

Answer 7

i answered this question last time you posted it and was appalled that the guy who claims to work at the post office said 80 cents.

my husband is in iraq and i send him letters all the time (he loves to carry them around on missions) and it is one stamp. 39 cents.

Answer 8

You need one stamp. Whatever the current postage rate is. I'm in Iraq currently, so I don't pay for postage. You only have to pay to get the letter to New York. I assume it's an APO address.

Answer 9

Just a regular postage stamp. If you ever want to send a package, the best way to go is a regulation US Priority Mail package (the pre-fab ones you get free at the post office)- stuff it as full as you can for (I think) about $7.50.

Answer 10

Whatever you would use to send it within the United States is the same price you pay to send it to the APO address of a unit deployed to Iraq. I used domestic flat rate shipping boxes and a customs declaration to ship things once a month to my friend currently deployed to iraq.