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Show Hew air service rates explained ages get surface transportation to the port of embarkation and are airlifted from there to the overseas posts on a space available avail-able basis. There is no charge for this partial airlift and overseas parcels par-cels weighing up to five pounds will continue to receive this service. Also as a reminder all third class mail requires .06 for the first two ounces which include wedding invitations, Christmas cards, thank you cards, birthday birth-day cards etc. Colin C. MacPherson, Arlington Arling-ton Count, Baltimore, treasurer has received many letters from unhappy taxpayers, but recently recent-ly he received an envelope with a check for $101.75, the bill for the personal property tax and one man's te-shirt. He got the message ! Packages up to 30 pounds for American military personnel person-nel served by Army and fleet P.O. overseas now can be sent by air transportation at special spec-ial low rates, Postmaster Bliss Packard pointed out today. Area residents using this new airlift service will get much faster delivery on parcels to military personnel overseas. The airlift is available on a space available basis upon payment pay-ment of the domestic parcel post surface rate plus a flat $1 fee. Packages weighing up to 30 pounds and not more than 60 inches in combined length and girth qualify for the new special spec-ial airlift rate. Postal patrons can get the airlift service on packages mailed to all military personnel person-nel at APO and FPO addresses overseas, and. in Alaska, Hawaii Ha-waii and Puerto Rico. The new airlift also applies to parcel mailed back to the States by servicemen from these military post offices. Parcels on which $1 fee is paid get air transportation all the way from here to the port of embarkation, and from there to the overseas base. Postal patrons pa-trons formerly had to pay air parcel post rates to get similar service. Rates lower He said that in many instances in-stances the new airlift rates are considerably below comparable com-parable air parcel post charges. He cited these examples: a mother mo-ther sending a 15 pound package pack-age to her son in Vietnam pays $2.60 for the new airlift service. ser-vice. The air parcel post rate for the same package is $7.73. An eight pound package going from here to Frankfort, Germany, Ger-many, cost $3 by the airlift service. The air parcel rate is $6.48. It is not always to the mailer's mail-er's advantage to use the airlift air-lift service. On some light packages, air parcel post rates may be lower than the airlift charges. Postal patrons should check with the post office for information infor-mation on the best way to mail parcels to servicemen overseas. The new airlift service went into effect Jan. 7, 1968. It was authorized under the postal rate bill signed into law Dec. 16 by President Johnson. The regular postage on parcels par-cels mailed to servicemen overseas over-seas is based on the distance the package is hauled within the United States. No charge is made for carrying the package pack-age between the U.S. port and the overseas base. Until Jan. 7, airlift for parcels par-cels to servicesmen overseas was restricted to packages weighing up to five pounds. Upon payment of the regular parcel post rates, these pack- |