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I'm trying to find an AFI or DoDI that covers postal benefits, but am not having any luck. I'm an exchange officer stationed in Europe 3 hours from the nearest APO and 7 hours from the nearest US base. Back in the day the USAF had a contract with DHL to deliver mail from the closest US base to my location once per week. Due to budget issues that went away but was replaced with a monthly TDY mail run. That soon changed to a quarterly TDY. That then changed to a quarterly mileage only TDY. That turned into nothing and I have no support at all. I now pay about $120 out of pocket and miss a day of work each time I want to check the mail. I wouldn't care about missing work, but I'm an exchange officer doing a job for a foreign government, so I can't really miss a day of work each week to check the mail. Since I'm so far from the BX/Commissary, I really rely on the APO to help me keep costs down as prices on the economy are much higher than the US. I have other solutions for letter mail, but auto parts, clothes, pharmacy items, etc are pretty pricey. So, here's my questions: 1) Any idea which AFI or DoDI even covers postal benefits? 2) Does anyone know if EOs in Asia or the Americas currently get postal TDYs? 3) Am I missing an obvious solution? Thanks, Pajaro