Mailed March 14, 2008, to Balad in Iraq
1 regular flat rate box, insured 55.92, postage $11.00
5 DVD movies:
Cisco Kid (the best of the Duncan Renaldo TV series from the 50’s)
Shanghai Knights (Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson)
Unbreakable (Bruce Willis)
Total Recall (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone)
Goldfinger (Sean Connery)
Candy:
3 packs 8 Snicker’s fun size bars
2 packs 8 Reese’s Peanut Butter crunch bars
2 bags Whoppers malted milk robins eggs
1 bag Butterfingers chocolate foil wrapped eggs
1 bag Hershey’s dark chocolate with almond miniatures
1 bag Hershey’s creamy milk chocolate foil wrapped eggs.
Mailed February 1, 2008, to Balad, Iraq, 2 boxes.
Box 1, value $36.08, postage $8.95
24 small 1.75 oz Russell Stover heart-shaped candy boxes (with 3 pieces of candy -choc truffle, choc caramel, choc nut chew)
2 DVD movies:
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Sports Illustrated Feb 4
Decision Feb 08
Box 2, insured $111.57, postage $11.40
1 TV series: Planet Earth (BBC version narrated by David Attenborough)
4 DVD movies:
Flight 93 (A&E made for TV movie)
The Fifth Element (Bruce Willis)
Alamo (Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton)
The Last Boy Scout (Bruce Willis)
2 cans 1 2 lbs. cashews halves and pieces
4 small boxes Russell Stover Valentine candy
5 pkgs cocoa mix (2 double choc, 1 each of candy cane, hazel nut, Bristol cream)
Sports Illustrated Jan 21 (Bret Favre, Totally Cool)
Detail on contents of the 21 packages I mailed out this year to Iraq (Stryker at Baqubah, HHC of NPTT at Baghdad, and Balad) and Afghanistan (Battle Company) can be found at posts 4, 5, 6, and 29.
Information on sending care packages is posted at posts 25-28.
ACCOUNTING for JANUARY 2008 through MARCH 2008: (This is only an accounting of the care packages that I sent)
RECEIPTS: (checks, money order, and Paypal): $740-$1.75 fee for Paypal = $738.25
(from Enterprise, jtill, Kitty Mittens, airborne, manna, jtill, manna, jtill, Enterprise, manna, PigRigger, SwatTeam)
Receipts (goods): 60 shaving gel from Enterprise (58 were mailed to Stryker at Baqubah on March 7, 2008)
Received March 31, 2008: 11 knitted watch caps sent by SwatTeam (not yet sent out)
EXPENDITURES
21 PACKAGES MAILED: Jan-Mar 2008
Postage $224.80, My cost of goods: $1050.57
Stryker at Baqubah: 15 care packages sent, postage $162.50, value $637.98 (value of shaving gel donated by Enterprise not included)
NPTT HHC at Baghdad: 2 care packages sent, Postage $19.95, Value $110.98
BATTLE COMPANY: 1 care package sent, Postage $11.00, value $98.04
BALAD: 3 care packages sent, Postage $31.35, Value $203.57
(Value of packing tape, strapping tape and gas not included.)
TOTAL EXPENDITURES: $1275.37
Have some further posts to do to catch up, including credits for care packages sent out by others.