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Comment by Chipmunk on November 1, 2023 at 9:52pm

NickSydmom - Thank you for sharing!! I have had a few conversations with USPS customer service. I am glad that you were able to help these people, even if there were difficulties with their packages, you could still steer them to N4M. It was a blessing to them to have reached you when they called. It sounds like you were blessed as well! 

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on November 1, 2023 at 9:41am

Comment by MomofJoseph on November 1, 2023 at 7:58am

NickSydmom - Thank you so much for sharing that!  I love, love, love that!!!

Comment by NickSydmom on October 31, 2023 at 10:03pm

I haven’t been on in a while but had to share a couple calls I got. I am a customer service agent for USPS and spend most of my time apologizing and not actually being able to help. So when I can really help my customers it makes my day worth it. I had 3calls the same day from Navy moms who were feeling lost. By the way I have sent them to this site for support. One mom had sent her son who is on the Eisenhower a package and needed help tracking. She was crying and I admit I cried with her and by the end of the call she was laughing and told me how grateful she was she got me to help her. The next call was a boot camp mom also lost sent her to this site another smile on my face. Final call a dad also with a kid deployed and he couldn’t figure out how to format the address. I was able to help it did take awhile but we got it. I feel like sometimes god just wants to make you feel helpful and I did. What a day!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on October 31, 2023 at 10:16am

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on October 30, 2023 at 10:52am

Welcome to our newest member - Submersiblemom!  I see your son is an Officer.  Feel free to ask any questions you may have....we have a few officer mom's on here...

Comment by WearsLargeHats on October 30, 2023 at 3:58am

Chipmunk, I thought about this when our son was stationed out at Pearl. He would call us about every week. One time he even called from the deck of the submarine when they stopped for a swim call a couple miles west of Oahu and the connection was like he was next door. He even called us from places such as Guam, Singapore, and Tokyo because cellphones work about anywhere now.
When we visited, we of course went to the Pearl Harbor Memorial and the USS Bowfin. The sub base is across the harbor from the USS Arizona and, when they did a ceremony for the 75th anniversary, I could see the BEQ apartments in the background. For the families with sailors there in the '1940s, phone calls would have been difficult to impossible, and very expensive. All they would have would be mail, and that would take weeks. It is hard to even imagine.
BTW, the Bowfin is the best-preserved WWII submarine I have ever seen. It looks ready to set sail. It is part of a monument to US submariners on Eternal Patrol, so modern submarine sailors periodically go there and give it a "field day" cleaning.

Comment by Chipmunk on October 28, 2023 at 9:44pm

4kidsforfun - There is definitely a different tone on the FB ombudsman pages for the ships. As much as I understand the separation issues with married sailor families and their children, I struggled at times reading the posts by some of the sailor wives. I think part of it, I am older now, I did my days of dealing with little ones when my husband was away for months at a time, not all military related, and living halfway across the country from my family, when internet was not really accessible to the masses. When you had to pay for long distance phone calls - although, those were still cheaper than our cell phone bills or phones are now. When sending pictures of the grandchildren to your parents might have meant loading all of the kids up in the car and driving to the next town where there was a K-mart that offered 2 prints for the price of one, so you could keep a copy and send the other. But then you had to date and put notes on the back of all of them and then load up the kids and drive them to the closest post office, because you did not have any idea how heavy the envelope was and how much postage you needed. 

It is hard to believe that in just a little over 30 years, so much has changed with our communication and our young ones do not understand what it means to wait for any news, even the nightly TV news. 

I agree 4kidsforfun, I truly appreciate this site and being among other moms who have different experiences with their single sailors, than most of the families who are represented on the ombudsman page - I will say though, I did appreciate when they would share their pictures of my son's ship coming into port. They could take their families to the beach and watch for the ship, and I got to participate as well. 

Comment by 4kidsforfun on October 27, 2023 at 10:40am

Thinking of all of you with deployed sailors - mine is still doing sea trials but the time is coming faster than I'd like that they'll be heading out for good. It's good to have this mom's group as most of the facebook stuff seems geared towards families rather than parents of single sailors. It makes perfect sense since they are all adults but it's still nice to have people in the same "boat"! 

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on October 27, 2023 at 10:11am

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