It took a little while but I've got a pretty good pile of paperbacks to send - I've culled out things like Robin Cook - always some evil capitalist is the villain, Kurt Vonnegut, some junk - for the most part these are all good reads.
Is there a book rate for packages to Iraq? ;-)
TH54
Books Robert Ludlum 8.5 Dick Francis 2.5 Lawrence Sanders 2.75 Dean Koontz 10.75 James Michner 4.5 John Sandford 2 Stephen King 5.75 John Grisham 3 Carl Hiaasen 2 Sue Grafton 1.5 Sara Paretsky 1.25 Raymond Chandler 1.25 Joseph Waumbaugh 1 Tony Hillerman 1 Michael Crichton 1 SciFi 10.75 Mysteries 6.5 Japan based novels 5 Various Novels 10 Military Novels 5.25 86.25 pounds total
If you send your books by media mail, they will take months to arrive and the APO won't be good anymore.
The best bets are the 5x8x11 flat rate priority boxes.
Call 1-800-527-1950 and order 25 of the boxes delivered to your home for free (lying flat in a compact box). M-F till 5 pm Eastern Time.
You'll need wide clear packing tape to assemble the boxes (Duck is a strong, fairly inexpensive brand) and then they will cost $7.70 per box to mail regardless of weight. But with a bit of juggling you can fit quite a few in one box.
Those look like terrific books. You can send them all to Tal Afar or divide them between Tal Afar, Mosul, Bagram, etc, whatever you want to do.
Try to write down the titles for us so we can keep track of what's gone where.
Keep in touch!
Patty