Here are the recommended holiday mailing dates for military mail this year:
For military mail addressed
TO APO and FPO addresses, the mailing dates are:
- Parcel Post - November 13
- Space Available - November 27
- Parcel Airlift - December 4
- Priority Mail, First Class cards and letters - Mailing date is December 11 to all locations
- EXCEPT for locations starting with ZIP 093. For all locations starting with ZIP 093 the mailing date is December 6.
- Express Mail - December 20 to locations where Express Mail service is available. Check with your local post office to determine which APO/FPO addresses can receive Express Mail. Note: This service is not available to ships.
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For military mail
FROM APO and FPO addresses, the mailing dates are:
- Space Available - November 20
- Parcel Airlift - December 4
- Priority Mail, First Class cards and letters - December 11
- Express Mail - December 18 from APO/FPO addresses where Express Mail can be accepted. Check with your local military post office to determine if they can accept Express Mail. Note: This service is not available from ships.
Thanks for the information StayAt HomeMother
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November 13, 2004
Ain't It Awful!
Read: Lamentations 3:25-42
Let us search out and examine our ways, and turn back to the Lord. —Lamentations 3:40
Bible In One Year: Lamentations 1-2; Hebrews 10:1-18
A friend told me about a man who shouted the same three words each day from his street-corner newsstand. "Ain't it awful!" he would say to passersby while extending a newspaper. People bought a paper because they just had to know what terrible thing had occurred.
Tragedy and dire predictions always make the front page, but if we become preoccupied with bad news, we will succumb to what my friend calls "awfulizing"—a pervasive pessimism that clouds every situation with gloom.
If anyone had a good reason for being despondent, it was the prophet Jeremiah. For 40 years, he declared God's judgment on the rebellious and unrepentant nation of Judah. Jeremiah suffered because of their disobedience, but he clung to his faith in God's goodness. Even after witnessing the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of his people, Jeremiah wrote: "The Lord will not cast off forever. Though He causes grief, yet He will show compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. Let us search out and examine our ways, and turn back to the Lord" (Lamentations 3:31-32,40).
Disobedience to God can cause great pain, but the doorway out of discouragement leads to the Lord, who "is good to those who wait for Him" (v.25). —David McCasland
Turn not aside, discouraged one,
Stir up your gift, pursue your goal;
In God's own time you'll see Him work,
He'll give you hope and lift your soul. —D. De Haan
Awful circumstances cannot alter the goodness of God.
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11/13/2004 8:38:55 AM PST by
The Mayor
("The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." --Patri)
