CHETRY: Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. For more than 180,000 troops stationed in both Iraq and Afghanistan, a package from home is really the next best thing to being there.</s>ROBERTS: Especially, this time of year. A CNN exclusive, Barbara Starr takes us inside a massive post office in Afghanistan where soldiers are working around the clock to deliver cards, letters and presents to America's homesick troops.</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Here on Bagram Airbase, we found the largest military postal facility in Afghanistan. This location is now processing about 160,000 pounds of mail each day from the United States or from places around the world coming to the troops here in Afghanistan. And that's about double the normal amount of mail coming into this facility every day because, of course, it is the holiday season. The troops here at this postal facility are working 24/7 to try and get the mail out to the troops in those remote operating bases all over Afghanistan. Actually there's 21 military postal facilities across this country trying to move the mail to the troops by the holiday season. You know in this modern world there's e-mail, there's Facebook and there's Twitter, but nothing really beats a package from home whether it's a box of cookies from mom or a box of photographs from the family of maybe new children that have been born while the troops are over here in the war zone. And this place is only going to get busier in the next 12 months with 30,000 additional troops headed to Afghanistan by the next holiday season. They expect to be even busier than they are right now. Barbara Starr, CNN, Bagram, Afghanistan.</s>ROBERTS: Coming up on 23 minutes after the hour. T.J. Holmes continues his special series, "Walk in my Shoes". He does exactly that, he walk to and from school with a couple of students in Chicago. You won't believe what they have to say about just getting to and from classes. Stay with us.
U.S. Soldiers Receive 160,000 Pounds of Mail