Post Office

We had a friend send us a package on Aug 28th and it apparently arrived on October 12. The only reason i know this is because I went back to the post office today to see if we had received any packages and the lady told me that one was returned on November 12. You can imagine how I might have reacted. The way the system works is that a notice is brought to our house and then we have to go to the post office to collect the package. Since we were not home on the day they came to deliver the notice (I dont really think they tried to deliver a notice) we never knew the package was at the post office. This has happened before, so I make a habit of checking on expected packages once every two weeks. Somehow this package was never found when I ask them to search for it (I am not surprised!) All that to say, the package that was probably miss-sent to Singapore is on its way back to the good ole’ US of A. I asked if I could get a PO Box to eliminate this problem as I have had some local mail returned because I was not in the office at the time of delivery. So as of today, we have a post office box where our notices will be delivered and hopefully fix the problem…. we will see.

Now on with the good stuff…. Angie has compiled a list of items received in recent care packages. Most of these things were delivered when our recent friends visited us, but some of the items came in a care package that was sitting in the “return to sender” pile at the post office when I went by today. Yeah, I guess it wasn’t all bad. I caught the second package just in time, good thing I went today.

128 kool aid single packets 53 bags of popcorn 46 kool aid mixes 30 boxes of mac and cheese 20 various sauce mixes 12 muffin mixes 12 biscuit mixes 10 bags of candy 8 soup mixes 6 gravy mixes 6 corn bread mixes 6 cookie mixes 6 packs of gum 3 containers of picante sauce 2 jars of peanut butter 2 containers of grape jelly

Included with all the food items were the following goods:

movies games toys spices medicine hand made quilts christmas gifts (from both family and friends) clothes books money snacks (trail mix, beef jerky, etc)

If you sent something and it wasn’t on the list, it was probably because we ate it before we could put it on the list.

When we moved here, we brought 4 trunks and 4 suitcases with us. Our friends brought 2 trunks and 2 suitcases of goodies for us. We are so pleased and are very thankful that you remembered us. We are simply blessed to have you as friends.