I simply don't list DVDs or CDs on the customs form, and that seems to work OK.

I sent SGT Adan Puente two packages today, one hygiene and one food.

I've had this experience only twice.  Once with a clerk I hadn't gone to before at my neighborhood PO, the other time at a PO I normally don't go to. The first time I had forgotten to put "Any Soldier" in the body of the address, so I'd added it underneath which undoubtedly made it more ...

I've tried to encourage contacts by explaining that we want to send them the right stuff the first time.  We don't want to burden them with things they don't need, can't use, or aren't allowed to have.  Like the person whose group needed T-shirts but they had to be olive green, and someone still goofed and ...

Today I sent a LFR box of Triscuits, granola bars, jerky, tuna, and chicken in a pouch.

I'm one of the 13 for WO1 Kevin Pfanstiel.  I sent him another package yesterday, after being sidelined for six weeks late last year for surgery.

I stick a small address label on my letters underneath my signature, followed by my e-mail address.  I have a zillion of those things, the kind that charitable organizations send all the time.  I'm totally guessing, but maybe the recipients peel off the label and black out my e-mail address. Gran, I sent ...

you realize that to a servicemember in a war zone, maybe some stories should be told in a slightly different order. (Last Sunday I was at the opera in downtown Los Angeles, attending an educational lecture before the performance.  The presenter was enthusiastically lecturing away, when suddenly there was a dull boom outside ...

you steel yourself in a not-so-lovely public restroom, because you know it's probably a lot more than what some of the troops have in the war zone.

Can anyone else send something to WO1 Kevin A. Pfanstiel?  12 M / 2 F, only 10 requests since he was added 22 July 08.  I'm # 10, and I sent him a second package today.  However, I'm about to have surgery and will be limited to sending letters for the rest of the year.  :-( Thanks, everyone.