I was watching Band of Brother and wondering how those paratroopers got letters from home. Did their family need to know their nearest base? Or could they simply write their name and battallion? If I want to mail a package to a sailor do I just the ship’s name? Or a port? I’m not actually mailing anything I’m just curious how that works. How much postage do you need to mail to a ship overseas?
https://www.pa.ng.mil/Community/Mailing-Deployed-Service-Members/
Basically their unit (or ship) gets assigned a special military PO box and the military takes care of it from there. USPS says you just pay like a domestic letter or package. It’s almost certainly subsidized by the military. I assume the other package carriers are similar.
The USS Benjamin Franklin? That’s a sub, not a carrier