Royal Dansk: Danish Butter Cookies, 48 oz
The can looks indestructible.
Posted on 11/29/2012 5:44:42 PM PST by goodwithagun
goodwithgun
I am on my fifth deployment since 9-11. During the winter you can send chocolate. It is too cold for chocolate to melt. My wife sends chocolate covered peanut butter drops every Christmas. They arrive fine. Pack the cookies well in a sturdy box. She puts them in a disposable tupperware container inside a cardboard box. The biggest danger to the cookies is getting crushed. You will need to hurry as the Military Postal System is slow in good times and overloaded at Christmas. I think last week was the cutoff for “guaranteed” delivery to Afghanistan by Christmas. No one will care if the cookies arrive before or after Christmas. It is the kind thoughts that count. Thanks for supporting the troops and your cookies will make many great Americans happy.
Great idea. It would be better though if they were addressed to Any Soldier on one of the FOBs. Otherwise the care packages stack up at the HQs and rarely make it further. Case in point the conexes of Starbucks coffee sent to Iraq. They were dropped off at Camps Victory and Slayer (co-joined bases in Baghdad). Not complaining because I used their silver bag Espresso roast in my ADC coffee maker for over a year but I knew some FOBs would’ve appreciated the goods. Some FOBs didn’t even have coffee in the local BX -if there was one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forward_operating_bases#FOBs_in_Afghanistan
Those work great and a small bottle of Crown Royal fits nicely in one. Yea I know your not suppose to send alcohol.
Little Debbies are a big hit over there.
Ok, read your post. Here’s my $.02:
-Cookies and most moist foods get go in shipping.
-Beef jerky, venison jerky, etc. are good.
They eat quite well over there so gap fillers usually amount to little odds-and-ends the folks at the BX and Hadji-Mart didn’t figure on.
-220 volt, multi-socket surge protector. The Hadji-mart models burn-out, catch fire, etc.
Then depending on their assignments
-Toe warmers
-Red dot for M16
-T-shirt from home town/state
-Thick, quality bath towel (not maroon or white -BX colors)
-Bathrobe for late night trips to the latrine.
-Extra Cushioned wool socks
-Leatherman if they don’t already have one.
-Hand held GPS (don’t worry about maps it can still take waypoints and provide distance and bearing info).
-Solar powered recharger for whatever gadget(s) they have.
-90% Isoproply rubbing alcohol or alcohol wipes for disinfectant since the BX won’t stock anything ‘alcohol’ so as to not offend the ppl trying to kill them.
Most other essentials are at a BX.
If it’s addressed to Any Soldier, FOB _________ it’ll get there, rather than being dumpted at some logistics HQ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forward_operating_bases#FOBs_in_Afghanistan
being former Navy and received many care packages while deployed, I have one recommendation, date your package! received a valentine’s package almost a year later. there were so many postal strikes that it was hard to figure out the shipped date
That would be wonderful. Another deployment is on the horizon for us.
My Postal service worker gave me this the first time I shipped a package last time and goes in the detailed description box:
CERTIFIED TO BE A
BONAFIDE GIFT OR ITEMS
FOR PERSONAL USE OF
MILITARY PERSONNEL
no need to list the items.
Also, M & M.s were created to ship to the GI’s serving in WW1. They would be soft but still edible up to extreme summer.
Thank you for your service and God bless!
It is no longer permitted to ship to “any soldier.”
Yeah.
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