How Do You Make A Military Care Package?
If your son, daughter, friend, spouse, girlfriend or boyfriend is going on an overseas deployment and you want to make a care package for her or him, read on. This article will explain how to make one and what you can & can not put in it. • Buy a plain brown mailing box. Make sure that the box is the correct size – you don’t want the box too small or too large. (When mailing from the U.S. go to www.usps.com and go to SUPPLIES and click on FLAT RATE. You will find flat rate boxes for APO/FPO addresses. These are for troops overseas and the USPS will mail you these boxes for free. The shipping costs for the flat rate is usually cheaper than shipping by weight, depending on what you are sending.) • Make sure anything you are planning to send (toothpaste, sanitizer, etc) is in travel-size accessories. It will be a lot easier for marines to carry around with them. • Tape the box up really well after you are done. If you are taking the box to a local or non-military post office, you may eith
