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For all the significant others, family members, and friends of sailors serving aboard the USS Mobile Bay
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Comment by vansmom on November 8, 2011 at 12:34pm
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YIKES! :) That's a lot of love!
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Someone also said they sit on a pallet somewhere in California....maybe that's where the city name come in to play? Who knows?
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Yay!!!!! Glad to hear he got them! I know the first ones I sent my son took forever and I thought for sure they'd end up coming back.....I kept emailing him asking him if he gave me the right address because he had no boxes and others were getting them......it took sooooo long....I think it's just the mail, now I know it takes 4 weeks. So just know the time frame.....it's just the mail. The post office had told me 2 weeks!!!!!!!!!! Yeah right!!!!!!! Ha!
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Comment by chris'smom ship 14 div 200 on November 8, 2011 at 12:03pm
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hahaha! i think you're right, sandy!!! and thanks for the update. so glad yours got through. i'm going to resend this very day!!!
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Thank you, vansmom. Yes, I did fill out the customs form, pretty much the exact way you did! Maybe I made some kind of mistake somewhere along the line. I'll get this figured out today. Let you know what happens. ;-)
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YOu can ask for extra customs forms at the desk and they'll give you a handful so next time you don;t have to fill them out while you are standing there......and just make sure you fill in every line with whatever they ask for so they don;t open the box somewhere along the route. I always put "none" in some of the boxes that ask for restrictions and put "air" not 'surface". Hope this helps! :)
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Did you fill out the customs form? That is the biggest pain! They always want every line filled in too, even if you don't know, just fill in whatever....I always just list booksm, videos, treats from parents on the description line and make up a price! :)
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I wonder why the post office sent my box back, then, because that's the address i used. I'll have to give them what-for! I am soooo disappointed!
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Sandy's address! :)
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That is the correct address that I send my son's stuff to and he always gets it in about 4 weeks. The one you have put up.
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