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PUBLIC LAW 91-375-AUG. 12, 1970

[84 STAT.

an overseas area designated by the President under clause (A) of this paragraph; or "(2) a member of an armed force of a friendly foreign nation at an Armed Forces post office and addressed to a place within the delivery limits of a United States post office, or a post office of the nation in whose armed forces the sender is a member, if— " (A) the member is accorded free mailing privileges by his own government; " (B) the foreign nation extends similar free mailing privileges to a member of the Armed Forces of the United States serving with, or in, a unit under the control of a command of that foreign nation; " (C) the member is serving with, or in, a unit under the operational control of a command of the Armed Forces of the United States; " (D) such letter mail or sound-recorded communication is mailed by the member— " (i) at an Armed Forces post office established in an overseas area, as designated by the President, where the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged in action against an enemy of the United States, engaged in military operations involving armed conflict with a hostile foreign force, or serving with a friendly foreign force in an armed conflict in which the United States is not a belligerent; or "(ii) while hospitalized in a facility under the jurisdiction of the Armed Forces of the United States as a result of disease or injury incurred as a result of services in an overseas area designated by the President under clause (D)(i) of this paragraph; and " (E) the nation in whose armed forces the sender is a member has agreed to assume all international postal transportation charges incurred. " (b) There shall be transported by air, between Armed Forces post offices which are located outside the 48 contiguous States of the United States or between any such Armed Forces post office and the point of embarkation or debarkation within the United States, the territories and possessions of the United States in the Pacific area, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or the Canal Zone, on a space available basis, on scheduled United States air carriers at rates fixed and determined by the Civil Aeronautics Board in accordance with section 1376 of title 49, the following categories of mail matter: "(1)(A) letter mail or sound-recorded communications having the character of personal correspondence; and " (B) parcels not exceeding 5 pounds in weight and 60 inches in length and girth combined; which are mailed at or addressed to any such Armed Forces post office; "(2) publications (entitled to a periodical publication rate, published once each week or more frequently, and featuring principally current news of interest to members of the Armed Forces and the general public) which are mailed at or addressed to any such Armed Forces post office (A) in an overseas area designated by the President under subsection (a) of this section, or (B) in an isolated, hardship, or combat support area overseas, or where adequate surface transportation is not available; and "(3) parcels exceeding 5 pounds but not exceeding 70 pounds in weight and not exceeding 100 inches in length and girth com-

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