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A minor victory.

clipped from www.mod.uk Defence A large dose of morale in the form of parcels and letters has just landed at the British Forces' main base in Afghanistan courtesy of the Royal Mail's new free postal service. Royal Mail recently waived the charges for families to deliver post to the British Forces Post Office depot in North London until Christmas. In addition to the traditional postal service, British forces personnel and their families are increasingly using the free 'e-bluey' system, an internet-based system for sending letters home. Messages are typed into a dedicated e-bluey terminal, or via the internet, enabling 'letters' to be created for emailing between theatre and the UK before being printed off as standard blueys, and dropped in the post.