Cargo Jets Chartered to Get Mail to Troops
From Times Wire Reports
The Postal Service has chartered two cargo jets to help deliver 750,000 pounds of mail a week to soldiers stationed in the war zone. By the start of the war last month, mail volume to Kuwait had increased 35-fold, up from about 21,000 pounds a week in October, the Postal Service said.
One of the chartered 747 cargo jets flies six days a week from the East Coast.
The other flies three days a week from the West Coast. Each delivers the mail to the military’s postal system in Kuwait for distribution.
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