IN OTHER WORDS ITS LIKE REACHING OVER YOUR SHOULDER TO SCRATCH YOUR BUTT.

Mail from European bases to Baghdad goes to Frankfurt, where it’s processed and trucked to Brussels, Belgium, Lynch said.

From there, DHL Worldwide Express — a unit of Berlin-based Deutsche Post World Net —flies it to Bahrain, where it’s transferred to a second DHL flight from Bahrain into Baghdad, he said.

Seems a miracle it ever gets there at all. I'm glad these folks make it happen.

Read about the postal system to Iraq here.