Ladies and Gentlemen, I got the "green light" to provide cookies/goodies/sweets for the group of reserve Marines currently stationed in Iraq!!! (this is the group of men/women who help with our Lockheed Martin "Bikes for Tykes" effort each Christmas.)
The liaison office would like these Marines to receive the packages by Christmas.
The boxes need to be submitted through Lockheed by our employee liaison (due to out-of-country declaration forms) and we still can't know the names of the marines, but hey, who cares.
The coordinator suggested the following idea and I think it will work:
**Cookies for EACH Marine will be submitted in a US Post Office Priority Mail Flat Rate box: size 11" x 8.5" x 5.5".
**Sealed boxes of cookies packed by you will be mailed TO ME by the end of November (a tad tricky because it runs into Thanksgiving holiday)
**I will transfer the 41 boxes to work.
** Unopened boxes will be relabeled for each individual Marine.
** Lockheed employees will pay for the second set of Flat Rate Postage for the 41 boxes.
** Cookies will be shipped by the coordinator from Orlando on Dec 4-6. (She'll do all the paperwork).
**The coordinator would like a name for "the group" sending the cookies for her cover letter (that's us!).
**Selected cookies need to be travel-safe for ~3 weeks at a minimum and possibly 4 weeks (by the time you bake it, send it to me, we re-address/restamp it and send it out to Iraq, not to mention early Christmas post office crowds that may slow things down). The last set of boxes shipped from Orlando arrived in Iraq within 6 days.
Avast...what say ye, maties? Do I have an "Aye"?
(Sorry, it was "Be a Pirate" Day yesterday and I missed it. Arrrgggg.)
The liaison office would like these Marines to receive the packages by Christmas.
The boxes need to be submitted through Lockheed by our employee liaison (due to out-of-country declaration forms) and we still can't know the names of the marines, but hey, who cares.
The coordinator suggested the following idea and I think it will work:
**Cookies for EACH Marine will be submitted in a US Post Office Priority Mail Flat Rate box: size 11" x 8.5" x 5.5".
**Sealed boxes of cookies packed by you will be mailed TO ME by the end of November (a tad tricky because it runs into Thanksgiving holiday)
**I will transfer the 41 boxes to work.
** Unopened boxes will be relabeled for each individual Marine.
** Lockheed employees will pay for the second set of Flat Rate Postage for the 41 boxes.
** Cookies will be shipped by the coordinator from Orlando on Dec 4-6. (She'll do all the paperwork).
**The coordinator would like a name for "the group" sending the cookies for her cover letter (that's us!).
**Selected cookies need to be travel-safe for ~3 weeks at a minimum and possibly 4 weeks (by the time you bake it, send it to me, we re-address/restamp it and send it out to Iraq, not to mention early Christmas post office crowds that may slow things down). The last set of boxes shipped from Orlando arrived in Iraq within 6 days.
Avast...what say ye, maties? Do I have an "Aye"?
(Sorry, it was "Be a Pirate" Day yesterday and I missed it. Arrrgggg.)
