Sending care packages tip

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Permalink Reply by ShaBar on March 26, 2013 at 10:26pm

FPO is the city and AE is the state, you have to have all the zip code +4 and the stuff goes to like a designated spot and when they get to say the shipment zone they wait until they have enough and then they fly it out to the ship. The place the packages actually go to from us or wherever we order from doesn't take look because it's still in the US. It's just depends on which plane it gets that takes it to the boat from there, so that's what holds things up

Permalink Reply by Gary Brophy on March 27, 2013 at 11:07am

One thing about amazon, not every item will ship oversees. I have had a lot of clothes that I ended up sending home and having my wife ship them to my APO address. Another thing many people don’t realize about Amazon is that you can buy groceries items on Amazon that soldiers and sailors may not be able to get in the BX/PX.  Many of the big box stores such as Wal-Mart, Target and Kohl’s also ship for free to APO/FPO.  You can also set up shipping addresses on their sites as well.  Here is a warning, its starting to get hot over here in the middle east.  Be very careful about sending items that may melt or spoil from now until November.  Many of the boxes creates could sitting in the full sun for hours or days.  By May, the average temperature here in Kuwait will be 110-125 f.