Topic: The Places
The only official U.S. post office I found inside the Green Zone is located at the Palace. It isn't very big. It is about the size of mobile homes found in countless trailer parks across America. Once you get inside, a soldier checks your package to make sure you are not trying to mail bootleg DVDs, shisha (which is considered to be drug paraphernalia), or some other illegal item. After the soldier checks the package, you seal it up and see another friendly soldier who tells you how much it will cost to mail the package. If you are simply mailing a letter, it is free!

Most of the soldiers use the post office to ship their belongings back to the States at the end of their tour. Soldiers can only carry a bag or two with them on the plane, so they have no other way to get everything back to America.