I can't imagine someone not understanding the need for Norton's Anti-Virus Software! How can that be? LOL!
Posted on 07/28/2004 7:59:46 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Step one, after you have an address, is find a box. You can get Priority boxes from the Post Office and they are free. My box of choice 90% of the time is about 3" x 12" x 13", a "shirt box". Another good size is 12" x 12" x 8". Bigger boxes are always available for more stuff and a unit, rather than just one. Priority boxes are also available online at www.usps.com. You order online, they deliver to your doorstep and THEY ARE FREE!! While you are at the Post Office, get Priority mailing labels and Customs forms. If you get boxes from WalMart, etc. just ask the Post Office for a roll of Priority Mail tape (free). And you will need lots of clear packaging tape. By the time your box makes it to its destinaton, it will have had quite the ride.
THINK BAGGIES BAGGIES BAGGIES!! If you have something too big for the biggest baggie, use the different size garbage bags. Experience has taught that the big containers of lemonade/Tang/pre-sweetended Kood aid/Gatorade can split their seams and spread all over everything in the whole box. Baggies will be used again in the land of sand.
Stuffing the box will help its contents make the trip. When the box is all packed, shake it to make things settle. Full in with something. Personal size toiletries work really well. Think stuff that fits in pockets. Just walk down the aisles at the store.
I can't imagine someone not understanding the need for Norton's Anti-Virus Software! How can that be? LOL!
What has more voices than tomkow6?
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You know they have it close to their throat
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Hey mojy wojy ...pardon my entrance...the dims have me.....
well fired up!
Customs forms -- depends on which PO you go to. Some are picky, others aren't. If you're taking your package to the PO and filling out the customs form there, take a list of what's in there and the approx. cost of each item. No kidding. I have to do this everytime at one PO and the other one I go to is satified with generalizations such as "Toiletries" and "Snacks."
Stuffing -- good point Kathy!! I use packets of pre-sweetened KoolAid, candy, gum... Also, I use the funnies from the newspaper. I AM careful to screen any newspaper I use as stuffing to make sure there's no non troop crap in there.
And KAthy - the tape thing -- tape over every opening. EVERY ONE! Even the ones that look sealed, tape them too. The sand gets in EVERYTHING!!
Used books are appreciated - I get current novels at a local Used Bookstore for pretty cheap. Sometimes if you mention what you're doing with the books they'll throw some extras in for free. It never hurts to ask!
Don't forget to add a personaly note of thanks and ask your kids to draw a picture....
I have been too busy to watch the crap that is coming out of Beantown. I feel sad for all the residents of Beantown. Tomorrow is the last night and then the Olympics will come. Then President Bush will start fighting back. Then school will start. WoOhoo!!
Ain't life grand? LOL!
Breaking news off Sky news alert report that Russians troops has lay smackdown on Town out of Grozy Checynea they killing 20 miltants so far
Also Sky news also reporting that Russia is saying that Southern Osttian troops are rip off guns of Russian troops station in the city they want them back how you do you see AK 47 from Russia soldier
BTW I saw MY LITTLE PRETTY PONY ERR I mean John Edwards where he went full Kennedy mode OMG
When did Demos become hip
Call New Jersey Sopranos state
or New York best known as Law and order
SHUT UP
pretty much dear girl..
Gloves are going to come off
I watched last night. Tonight we chose 101 Dalmatians instead. Much more uplifting! :o)
Glenn close was so inspiring
;^)
If you are a java drinking, Prozac popping hippy stuck in the 1960s, this convention has done wonders for your self esteem.
If you live in the real world with the rest of us, this is the biggest informercial we've seen for the year.
Okay! Off to bed again!
*HUGS*
Thanks for all your help Diva!
No - we chose the REAL original version. Shorty has much of it memorized and it's so fun watching her say the lines with the characters!! :o) I figured watching Cruella tonight couldn't be as bad as watching Tuh-RAY-zuh last night! LOL!!
See ya in the morning!
Glenn Close is so inspiring to me. After listening to her speak, it makes you wish her mother had an abortion. Honestly, she's so touching. NOT!
Hehe!
g'night doll face
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