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Help! I sent Priority Mail To Bootcamp. Did I make a mistake!
It has been over 3 weeks and I finally got the form letter from my fiancé at Great Lakes. Since he left I have been writing him every day. Needless to say I had quite a few letters so the lady at the post office put them all in a large priority mail envelope. After I sent it, I looked online and read that doing so will get the recruit in trouble. Is that true? All that is inside are regular white envelope letters. Did I possibly get my fiancé in trouble by sending these items priority? Thank u south for you help and response. I am kind of freaking out about it.
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Permalink Reply by Chelle15187 on
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I sent my husband overnight mail and it wasn't a problem. He deff didn't get it overnight but he didn't get in trouble either. It probably depends on the division as well, but I wouldn't think it would be too much of a problem. He was in bootcamp over Christmas and one of the guys in his division was sent over a hundred hand made christmas cards by kids for all of the guys and that wasn't a problem either
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Permalink Reply by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on
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He won't be in trouble. They'll probably make him open it in front of them so they can make sure there's no "contraband" like cookies, candy, etc. in it, but he won't be in trouble just because it's in another package. I sent my husband his letters in colored envelopes, which he loved because he could see how many letters he had as soon as the mail person took out the stack, but they suggest the plain white envelopes so that you draw as little attention to the recruit as possible. As long as it's just letters in there, you have nothing to worry about :)
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Permalink Reply by LovesASailor on
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Perfect! Thank you SO MUCH! I am learning as I go and definitely do not want to get him in trouble. Thank you again :)
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