I am planning on sending a good ol' Wisconsin care package and would like to sent some good Wisconsin made cheese.  Has anyone tried this or have a suggsetion on this?  I am coming to the well knowledge here.

Dave

I believe some have sent similarly themed packages-cheese and crackers, etc... including velveeta or other "shelf" cheeses that don't require refrigeration, but I would get on that on fast: the heat is cranking up, and even the fake cheeses already be at risk of melting! 

 

(PS, Jenifer is usually totally on top of past threads/topics, maybe she'll chime in!)

At the request of my little medic buddy, I sent a box of cheesesticks in February to her in Iraq.  It was in the 40's in Dallas and Baghdad when I sent the cheese.  She had a fridge to put them in (they really didn't last too long to need a fridge!).  Due to the winter weather, the cheese survived the trip and no one got sick.

Considering that it has already hit 100 degrees over in parts of Iraq, I would hold off on the good old Wisconsin cheese til next winter.  Unless, like was suggested, you send the 'processed cheese food' that isn't really cheese but doesn't need cold temps to keep it healthy to eat.  But come next Christmas, I am sure many a soldier would LOVE to get a care package with cheese in it!

well, its not for WI, but I just sent 3 kinds of cheese with my taco packages.  All nachos, and they come in a can.  I guess it worked well.  Was not said it was not liked.

LoL! I, too, once had this dilemma!!! My friend was stationed in Afghanistan and he wanted to make his boys some quesadillas. We never did get around to it, but I did end up buying some canned long shelf life cheese through a link I found on this site: http://www.internet-grocer.net/ If you do a search here on anysoldier, look for the thread labeled "Recipe Box Ingredients."

 Just so you guys/gals know - I still have the cheese and the butter I purchased from them sitting on my desk... but if anyone is really interested - I will pop it open and give it a taste....
 

It's not Wisconsin cheese, but Hickory Farms (usually available at Target) makes a cheese that you can send; doesn't need to be refrigerated. You can also use cans of spray cheese from any grocery store (I'm not sure if these are prohibited due to being pressurized; I mail them in bubble wrap and a ziploc and they always arrive there just fine). I know it's not the same as fresh Wisconsin cheese, but I think they'd understand. :)

spray cheese is prohibited, or at least they said so at my PO. contents under pressure.  She even told me bug spray is prohibited if it has alcohol in it, germx, and a whole bunch of other stuff I never thought of.

 

Lisa

 

Hickory farms is the way to go. I have sent it before, and actually, they will ship directly to APO's. Just go to their website and there is a link under the Beef Stick and Cheese, there is an APO/FPO Link.

Good luck

Heidi

jetakai:

spray cheese is prohibited, or at least they said so at my PO.

 

Ummm yeah, did I say that I've sent spray cheese??  I was just joking. 

*hiding from the postal regulators*  

CaliGirl:

jetakai:

spray cheese is prohibited, or at least they said so at my PO.

 

Ummm yeah, did I say that I've sent spray cheese??  I was just joking. 

*hiding from the postal regulators*  

 

Yikes!  Ditto!!!!!

This is how I would write it on my customs declaration:

Cheese - packaged

 
It's the whole truth, and nothing but the truth!
 

I've sent cheese before too, and just listed it as "canned cheese" on the customs form. No one at the post office or with customs has ever said anything, and my packages always made it to their destinations. Hopefully no one from the PO will track us all down!

If an item is truly prohibited and not just a figment of the clerk's imagination, I believe that Marty would indeed tell us not to be using this site to break a federal law.

Gran

Amen, Gran!  I agree.  If we can recall innocent mistakes, that is one thing, but . . . well . . . Amen, Gran!  Thanks for watching out for us!

Gran:

If an item is truly prohibited and not just a figment of the clerk's imagination, I believe that Marty would indeed tell us not to be using this site to break a federal law.

Just for the record, I have never- and would never- use this site to break a law.  For one, the contact that I've sent spray cheese to has probably never even heard of AnySoldier.com (we met elsewhere years ago).  Secondly, a search on Oconus and the USPS for prohibited APO/FPO items says nothing about any category that spray cheese would fall under- raw fruits, obscene materials, pork, firearms, alcohol or materials used to make it, animals, plants- but nothing else.  So when, additionally, my P.O. clerks say it's okay to send spray cheese, I expect that's the truth... 

Other pressurized items that are prohibited, i.e. bug spray, hair spray, etc. I assume are prohibited because they're highly flammable. Side note, 2 boxes that I'd sent my ex were destroyed because while they were on the mail truck, another box containing a high-powered flashlight -with the batteries in it- switched on enroute and got so hot the box caught fire. Also in someone else's box was a bottle of hand sanitizer, which apparently reeeeally got the fire going. Whole truck full of the company's mail was destroyed.

Anyways, Dave, good luck with the cheese dilemma. :)