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 November 8, 2008 - Christmas 2008 Troop Care Packages
‘Tis the Season! And this is a national call for Christmas Care Packages for the troops!
Let’s show them how much we each care!
Support Our Troops® makes this call on behalf of all 60+ troop-related groups across America who are routinely sending care packages to the troops.
 You can click here and enter "care package" to find a group of your choosing to which to send care package goods.
Or you can send to us, via the instructions below.
Media: You are welcome to clip or download 4.50 Mb the Christmas Care Package Icon and use post it and use it in print and other electronic media to spread the word about this program. You may link to us at this page, or reprint the written information about this program posted on this page.
Here's how it works:
Pick the group you want to send your package to using the Find-A-Group™ link above and send it directly to them.
Or send it to us.
Always send postage! $10.00 in stamps, check, cash or money order for each priority box. It costs a fortune to ship all of this stuff, and many troop-related groups have the willpower, and manpower, but not the fortune. So send the $10 along inside each box!
We operate many programs benefiting the active duty troops, and money helps to make it all happen.
The Care Package Rules:
- Nothing less than the best for these first class people! All first class, brand new, unopened, safety-sealed goods for America's finest.
- Please include copies of the purchase receipts for the items for safety cross-checking.
- Please include your name, address and phone number in case we need to get hold of you about the shipment. Also, be sure your name, address and phone appears legibly on the outside of the box.
- Please include a picture of your group, school and class, or such and any notes about why you did this so the troops can know how much the folks here really love, respect and appreciate them. We want the troops and their families to know who, way back here at home, is thinking about them.
- Cards, letters, and the like need to be unsealed and inspectable.
- In each priority box you send include either $13.00 or three $4.80 United States Priority Mail stamps. It costs that much to the ship the goods onward to the troops and their families after inspection and repackaging.
- Simple!
The following are things the troops principally request:
The items on the list below have been specifically requested by the troops. If you want to send things to the troops, these are the things they principally want and which we can get to them. Like you, we believe in looking out for the folks who are looking out for all of us here at home. Thank you!
- phone cards (#1 most requested item; so they can phone their loved ones)
- VISA and M/C gift cards (#2 most requested item; gives them maximum flexibility
- personal hygiene items (American made for safety of course)
- wet wipes, individually wrapped in foil packs (not gel bottles)
- body wipes in plastic pull-out canisters
- disposable razors – men's and women's
- chap sticks
- floss
- toothbrushes
- foot powder
- and the like
- iTunes cards
- Magazines (clean content)
- books (clean content)
- fun posters and calendars for dressing the place up
- AA batteries
- AAA batteries
- movie DVD's (clean content)
- music CDs (clean content)
- iPODs (empty)
- small earphones
- 1 GB and 2 GB USB memory sticks (external hard drives) (blank)
- beef jerky and sticks
- peanuts and nuts in cans with lids
- tins and packets of flavored coffee and cappuccino
- candy
- gum
- breath mints
How to Mail Them.
If you are sending to any of the other troop-related groups:
- simply follow the instructions on their website, and always make sure to include postage for them to use in shipping onward.
If you are sending to SupportOurTroops.Org:
- Use U.S. Mail only. Not UPS, FedEx or DHL. They do not deliver to our P.O. Box. (It may be a P.O. Box in a Federal Post Office building for safety, but we can fit a truck load of goods through it).
- The Post Office has a $12.95 flat rate priority mail box into which you can fit as much as you physically can for one price.
- They also have good old parcel post, which is very cheap and only takes about three extra days to reach us (which means can spent on things for the troops instead of shipping).
- Mail them to Support Our Troops®, P. O. Box 70, Daytona Beach, FL 32115-0070. Be sure your name, address and phone is on the outside of the mailing box. Be sure you include $13.00 or three priority stamps.
- If you are a company or manufacturer wishing to donate a substantial block of any of the foregoing or similar, please contact us for trucking and warehouse information.
Isn't it time to show them how much we care?™
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