Slow mail hurting U.S. troop morale in Iraq-report

[seemslikeadream]

14 Apr 2004 22:21:53 GMT
Slow mail hurting U.S. troop morale in Iraq-report

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WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) - U.S. troop morale in Iraq is suffering because of slow mail deliveries caused by poor training, equipment shortages and bureaucratic inefficiencies, a congressional report said on Wednesday.

The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said the Military Postal Service was not doing a good enough job in Iraq, where U.S. troops faced the highest level of violence since Saddam Hussein was toppled from power a year ago.

The problems cited in the report were the same that hampered mail delivery by the Military Postal Service, operated by the U.S. Postal Service and the Department of Defense, during the Gulf War more than a decade ago.

In its 38-page report, the GAO said it surveyed 127 soldiers and found more than half were dissatisfied with their mail delivery, with many waiting up to four weeks to receive a package. In those cases, the Military Postal Service was unable to keep up with changing deployment information among the troops.


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[Amerpie]

1. Outsourced war

My dad got his mail in Vietnam (35 years ago) faster than my friends get their mail in Iraq.

[Earth_First]

2. Absolutely...

I just recieved a 'return to sender' postmarked june 12, 2003 this past week to a friend of our family who was deployed in Iraq, he returned three weeks ago...

[DemoTex]

7. Not everybody did.

During the Fall monsoon, my mail was often three weeks late. I did not find out about my grandmother's death until three weeks later, by mail. I raised Cain with my parents for not contacting me through the Red Cross. That would have/could have gotten me back to the states for the funeral. I cannot tell you how depressing it was to get that letter three weeks after Grandmother died. I drank the better part of a fifth of Beefeaters that night.

[osaMABUSh]

3. For letters and photos - I thought they had email

bit quicker one would think.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

4. Typo? s/b 'Slow...Male...Hurting US Troop Morale...' n/t

[Cocoa]

5. lol

is this about the troops watching the press conf. last night? :-)

[seemslikeadream]

6. Hurting US Troop Morale...