Mail Call

Nov 29 & Dec 1 2010~ Joe and I helped Iowa Troop Pantry mail some of the boxes we have recently packed. The first day, we loaded 88 boxes into the back of our minivan and headed to the post office. Let me tell you.....you sure get a lot of attention....and sighs...from people when you drop this many boxes off!! See you don't just dump and run with these....each box has custom sheets that have to be filled out, processed and signed off on, as well as scanned through the p.o. system and weighed! We spent 3 hours doing this! But it was fun to know we are brightening a soldier's day!! Each box weighs approx. 15 lbs....we did have a lot of fun with one BIG box Mike packed for a group of Marines in a remote location.....the p.o. scale only registers 70 lbs, and this box was off the register!! We took it back, Mike repacked it...and we tried again when we went to the p.o. on Dec 1 with 22 more boxes. Still off the scale!!! Hmmmm..... take it back to Mike- we finally did get it right, and we ended up with 3 boxes for the Marines!! The post office just smiles when we come in now.....they know this is for our troops and they are super and very nice!! We appreciate their help and sense of humor!! In all, we spent 4 and 1/2 hours just getting the boxes mailed to the soldiers......time well spent!!! Can't wait until we get to do this again!!