Post Office Stories

Re: Leaking packages...

mojalajab — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:47:48 GMT

I place the creamers inside one of those empty plastic containers that coffee now comes in. Our office goes through lots of coffee and I take home everyone of those containers. Place some Saran wrap over the top of the container before placing on the lid and you now have an almost indestructible container that won't leak. In addition, the soldiers now have a handy container for the creamers, sugar, etc....

Re: Leaking packages...

ga_junkie:) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:00:47 GMT

reminds me of one of the first care boxes i sent to my son...i sent him his favorite candy Jr. Mints....it was summer.....it was a mess...

Re: Leaking packages...

IamKeiserSoze — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:05:19 GMT

oo! good idea, thanks!!

Re: Leaking packages...

graywolf — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:12:40 GMT

Another safe measure is putting a new kitchen garbage bag in box first then put in all my stuff. Seal the bag and then seal the box.

This sure has saved me a lot of worry.

Leaking packages...

IamKeiserSoze — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:49:57 GMT

I sent off my first soldier boxes today, 3 in all, and had no problems with the USPS employee at all. She skimmed over the label which had ATTN: ANYSOLDIER(TM) in the attention line and said nothing. So woohoo! Small victory. I was worried about that.

The problem I ran into was completely MY FAULT! After reading so many of the lists, I decided to send my gals and guys some little CoffeeMate creamers (liquid) and I put them in a ziploc bag in case they leaked. Well... I, the genius, also put plastic forks, knives and spoons in the ziploc too. Imagine my surprise when the postal employee shows me her wet, sticky hands and says, "What do you have in here?" After turning 10 shades of red in front of a full post office at lunchtime, I cut the box open and found that the forks had punctured the ziploc, which was holding at least one crushed, leaking creamer cup. *embarrassed!!* I took the whole bag of leaky stuff out and resealed the box. The boxes are now on their way!

*Lesson Learned = no sharp things with potentially leaky things!*

Good luck and have fun everyone! Keep up the good work :)

Jenny/IamKeiserSoze