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Originally Posted by stormlion1
A goverment, Milgov or Civgov would best be served by setting up post offices in a given area that require the locals to register to make use of the postal services. This registration would have the dual purpose of creating a database of people using the service and actually be used to find persons in a displaced population but also recording people living in a area for CivGov or MilGov own use. At that point its as simple as setting up delivery between these offices and getting people to show up there to get there mail. Essentially everyone gets a post office box and the post office becomes a central point in the area.
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Agreed.
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Originally Posted by Rainbow Six
That makes a lot of sense. After all, there's little point in carrying mail for several hundred miles over potentially hostile terrain unless you know the recipient is a) alive and b) still living in said City. So presumably there would need to be some sort of registration process.
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Agreed. Perhaps this registration for mail service would be a roundabout way to conduct a semi-formal census as well.
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Originally Posted by Tegyrius
Given that, the team might be better served with more engineering and maintenance support than a HMMWV pulling a tank trailer. Perhaps a HEMTT with 5-ton crane operating in the "water buffalo" role, with a bunch of 55-gallon fuel drums or a non-trailered fuel tank strapped down in the load bed?
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That is an option. A HEMTT is a big, heavy, gas-guzzling beast, though.
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Originally Posted by Tegyrius
Also, depending on the local political environment, this might make for a mixed team, with a couple of civilian representatives (CivGov or local enclave) riding along to reassure any anti-MilGov communities along the route. Part of MilGov's long-term strategy should be to re-establish civilian governance as per the Constitution, so visible steps toward that goal would, ironically, establish MilGov's short-term legitimacy as much as actual mail service would.
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Absolutely.