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My husband hasnt been receiving his letters?!
My husband has been in basic training for two weeks today and I got a letter from him this afternoon with a different address then before and he said that he hasnt been getting any letters yet and to pleease write. Ive been writing everyday and been sending to the first address that he gave me! Will he end up getting these?! They had a lot of important questions in them and I dont want him to think I havent been writing him :(
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Permalink Reply by Jenn_NicksWifey on
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He will get them. First, they don't really get mail until the Recruit Mail Petty Officer is trained, which takes about 2 weeks. All of the mail you sent will get forwarded to him. My husband's first letter @ the second week said he hadn't gotten any letters yet and I had written every day and had been mailing them. I hope that eases your mind!
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Permalink Reply by chelseycooper(PIR 9-7)Ship-12 on
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It for sure does! Thank you! I felt so bad for him.
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Oh thank God :) Haha thank you
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Thank you!!! :)
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Permalink Reply by amor on
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how did he give you an address before two weeks? the first address you send to should come from the box with his clothes in it that gets sent back to you, or the "form letter" they send about graduation. Keep in mind that the letter you got from him is also most likely from a week ago because mail is so slow in boot camp. He could have gotten them by now, but also they could be on their way back to you if the address was seriously off. they hld their letters from home for a while because they have to train one of the division's recruits to collect and give out the mail which can take some time. just write him a letter explaining that you've been writing every day but that you had the wrong address. don't worry he will understand, they are just desperate for letters in the beginning. How off was the address? did you have the wrong division number? or was it just the wrong zip code?
my boyfriend wrote to me worrying about getting letters too in the beginning, even though i was writing him every day and i'd gotten his address early from his recruiter! he could even have them by now, don't worry. as soon as the first one gets there, all his worries will be eased and your letters will be his fuel to get through boot camp :)
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Yeah I realize that the mail is behind for them. But when he sent back his box of clothes, there was no return address on it. But when he sent the info about grad. thats when I started sending my letters to the address on that, that he wrote out. It was the same ship and division nymber and everything it just didnt have the name of the ship. The first one said "recruit training command" and the new one had his ship name with the last part of the zip different. Thank you so much for your reply! :)
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Oh awesome, Yeah I was in sort of a panic after I read that he hadnt gotten any mail and was hoping to hear his name at mail call! I felt so bad, but everyone is saying that he will get it, so im still waiting. Thank you so much for your reply <3
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Permalink Reply by newnavywife2012 Ship 09 Div 283 on
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Chelsea I think you told me this in an e-mail but what ship/div# is he again? If you have that I can verify the address for you, but most likely he is getting mail now anyhow. When hubby wrote me he hadn't gotten anything yet either only b/c the mail carrier had not been trained yet! Then they have to sort the mail, these things unfortunately take time :)
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Ship 12 Div:285 :)
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http://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/contact_recruit.asp
well here is the link for the addresses!
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ok so i just looked at that website and everything he gave me for the NEW address was correct except for the last four digits of the area code! he gave me the last four for ship 4, not 12?! Why would he do that?!
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Okay!
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