Care Packages

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Permalink Reply by Lisa A. on October 24, 2008 at 10:41am

You can also use those flat rate boxes to ship to any military base. I use them to send my son in GL snacks and food ~ not enough in Pre-BUD/s. Just make sure that they understand you are shipping to a domestic base so you get the flat rate!
Also, you can order the boxes online from USPS for free!

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Permalink Reply by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on October 24, 2008 at 3:00pm

good point Lisa- the boxes are free at the Post Office as well...you don't pay until you actually use the box

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Permalink Reply by HTsWife on October 27, 2008 at 4:26pm

You may want to double check how heavy the boxes will weigh- i was our command's FRG President before switching to Ombudsman & part of our pre-deployment project was to compile the mailing info- much to our surprise, unless the large FPO flat-rate box gets to at least 14 or 15#, you're spending more than you would by using the regular Priority Mail boxes (their largest PM box is also a little larger than the large FPO flat-rate box).

but yes, get the boxes, address labels, & the large white customs forms from their website, so you can always make sure you have them on hand- much to my surprise, our PO doesn't have any of these (except the labels) on hand!

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Permalink Reply by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on October 30, 2008 at 2:10pm

Thanks to Cora (Howie's wife) for bring to our attention a military package program the Post Office started; Click This for a link to her discussion.

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Permalink Reply by John Briney on December 9, 2008 at 5:01am

Thanks! The lady I've been dating is a Postmaster, so I had an edge on the shipping, boxes and dates to be sent by. December 11 is the deadline for the FPO AE 095 zip codes. Nick will have a couple of good, full boxes of goodies!!!

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