Deadlines Set For Holiday Mailings [+ handy tips]

DoD - American Forces Press Service ^ | Oct. 7, 2003 | Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample

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NOW HEAR THIS ALL LURKERS/POSTERS:

THIS WEEKEND (November 8 and 9) is the LAST SHOPPING WEEKEND for Parcel Post mailing
of care packages to our BEST AND BRIGHTEST who will be stationed far from home for the holidays
(deadline for this inexpensive mailing route is November 13th).

TIME to:
SHOP
BOX
and
MAIL

for shipping advice, see threads at this URLs:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003802/posts

THAT IS ALL!
till next time...

[VOA]

I know I'm like a broken record, but here goes...

NOW HEAR THIS ALL LURKERS/POSTERS:

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH IS THE DEADLINE for inexpensive Parcel Post mailing of miltary
care-packages to our BEST AND BRIGHTEST who will be stationed far from home for the holidays.
...some of these folks will be spending their first Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Years away from home and family, in one of the about 160 countries...

TIME to:
SHOP
BOX
and
MAIL

for shipping advice, see threads at these URLs:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003802/posts

THAT IS ALL!
At Ease!

[VOA]

y'all can still mail packages for the holidays!
it will just be a bit more expensive if you want to get them there in time for the holidays!

[VOA]

bump...and with a look at the weather forcasts for Baghdad and Mosul, looks like highs in
the 60s/70s and lows in the 40s...I'm gonna risk sending some (sealed in baggies) chocolates.

Bet most of it gets "re-gifted" to Iraqi kids!

[VOA]

Ragtime Cowgirl, I apologize in advance to you and Jim Robinson for stealing this thread momentarily...

Dear Fellow Freepers...I'm hi-jacking this thread for a short side-bar in hopes to inform you to motivate y'all just a bit.....
the deadline (November 13th) for mailing military care-packages via the APO/FPO route to
our best and brightest has passed.

BUT...you can still mail military care packages!
I know, I DID IT YESTERDAY! (Saturday 11-15-03)

It's still TIME to:
SHOP
BOX
and
MAIL

for shipping advice, see threads at this URL:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003802/posts
(please not that the USPS website URL are missing a ".com"),
and remember to mark the "Redirect" box and write in "Commander/Chaplain"
on the Customs form...that way your box will definitely be used


Further info. on VOA's mailing of two packages on 11-15-03, Saturday

I'll admit that it's costly. I loaded up one of the free "Priority Mail" cardboard boxes from the
local United States Post Office.
I loaded up each of two boxes with all sorts of "comfort food" and "personal hygiene" items that
should be useful, no matter if the recipient gets them or they are redirected by a "commander/chaplain".

I loaded each boxes with food items like...
flavored coffeed (e.g, hazelnut flavored that had sugar in the blend),
artificially-sweetened Tropical-Punch-flavored Kool-Aid (so sugar isn't required),
Spam-brand "Oven-roasted Turkey" (no pork products; metal-sealed for long-term preservation)...something
that a hungry Iraqi might really appreciate as a gift),
Lipton soup-packets in the flavors of "chicken noodle", "ranch", and "beef onion" (humble, but a change of pace!)
Oreo Cookies ("America's Favorite Cookie"...so I bet US soliders like 'em),
M&Ms -- holiday-colors...bet those will be well received around the tent!,
disposable razors (and a bar of "Burma-Shave" brand shaving soap!),
new toothbrushes (heck, might just be useful in cleaning an M-16!) and toothpaste,
solid-form under-arm deoderant....

I'm sure that folks who've actually served in a long-term deployment far from home, especially when separated
from beloved family and friends DURING THE HOLIDAYS can come up with even much more meaningful
and significant items to send to those who are abroad...protecting us, their fellow band of brothers and sisters,
and, at a long reach.....you and me.

[VOA]

bump...and advice to care-package mailers...
don't pack soap products with food product...just too much of a chance that the food-stuffs will
taste/smell of soap when they are delivered.

[VOA]

Some kind soul put this thread in News/Activism...but it's really been superceded
by a more current thread at this URL:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1023324/posts

[VOA]

There is also an older, but detail-laden thread about the shipping of care-packages
at this URL:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003802/posts

[tzachry]

hi, my kids and i have a few shoe boxes filled with necessities and treats for our service people, nut, know of no names of service people to send it to, can you put me in get me 2 names of servicemen of whom we may send to????
thanks

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I think we can get you a few names to send your gifts to our troops. Thanks, tzachry!

m-a, armymarinemom, can you help tzachry?

Contact me if you run out of names and addresses of Soldiers who could use kindness and gratitude from fellow freedom-lovers. (^;

[mystery-ak]

Freepmail me, and I'll give you Mike's address.

[homegroan]

Make sure you put the cookies in ziplock bags AND in a gladware container AND wrap the box with brown paper. I sent cookies and individually wrapped donuts in ziploc bags and the ants in Kuwait ate everything. The stuff going to Iraq sits in Kuwait for about 4 days. I send Dunkin Donuts coffee there regularly and also DVD's are great for R&R.Magazines are good too.