LONDON – The E-Bluey service allows friends and relatives to log onto a special website and write letters to service personnel stationed around the world.
Once you hit the send button this electronic letter is sent to a computer server and then downloaded by a Forces Post Office later in the day. The letter is then printed and placed into an envelope without anyone seeing the content, using an integrated printer enveloper manufactured by PFE UK.
Until today BFPO has been using a web site supplied by Royal Mail, but this has been closed to the public for some time and is now being phased out of military use. We have agreed upon a contract to have a new and improved E-Bluey service supplied by leading hybrid mail company SuperLetter.com Inc http://www.superletter.com of New Smyrna Beach Florida USA.
E-bluey has enhanced the way people communicate with British servicemen/women on operations, the involvement of SuperLetter will mean that it can only get better.
Superletter.Com has provided major enhancements to the service. First, it can be accessed through the all new BFPO Web site http://www.bfpo.org.uk. The number of pages in each E-Bluey will increase from one to four, a personalized address book is maintained on the web site eliminating the need to enter the recipient address each time an E-bluey is sent.
Two-way service is now available from locations with an Internet terminal allowing friends and relatives to be able to receive e-blueys from servicemen/women stationed around the world.
E-Blueys from overseas to the UK will be downloaded in Mill Hill and delivered first class by Royal Mail. In the New Year other enhancements such as the ability to send attachments, (like scanned photos, drawings or text) to make them more personal will be implemented.
The SuperLetter Server http://www.superletter.com provides new levels of security ensuring the absolute privacy of each E-bluey sent. Sender, recipient information and e-bluey letter body text are transmitted to the SuperLetter.Com International Web Server using VeriSign Global Site 128-bit SSL encryption technology and transferred as a Database and then stored in an Archive file, which is protected by a dynamically generated password. The Archive is then transmitted to the BFPO where the BFPO print program using the same algorithm to calculate the password to open and print the mail.
For non-military personnel around the world SuperLetter offers a multi language commercial service at http://www.superletter.com. Whether you are sending a letter to Los Angeles, Toronto, Canada or London, England, the SuperLetter International Web Server directs your mail to the appropriate to our SuperLetter Terminal in the city and country to which your mail is addressed in a fully secure format where it is printed out on a PFE Integrated MailPrinter.
These fully enclosed machines guarantee the privacy of the correspondence and it is never displayed on any monitor or seen by any operator.
