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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
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In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
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Shipping to Yokosuka
My son just got stationed at Yokosuka and I want to send him a little care package. Can anyone suggest the best way to get this to him, fast and inexpensive. US Mail, UPS or Fed Ex? Are there special rates for military packages? He is going out to sea on the 14th so I wanted to get the package to him before he is at sea.
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Permalink Reply by sailorwifenmom on
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We just moved from Japan a few months ago, and did a lot of packages back and forth. We preferred to use the flat rate priority mail boxes at the post office. It will go priority until it hits the military mail system, where it will ship like other packages, but they tend to be a good, standard box size that moves pretty easily (relatively fast) through the mps system.
You can get a discount mailing to an apo / fpo address (or they did for awhile,my in-laws would use it mailing to us, but it wasn't a big one and they didn't really mention it much after our initial conversation. I used it to send stuff to my husband when he was shipboard...). Ironically, he won't get one mailing from the military address to you...
Also, even when they're at sea, unless they're just doing a quick work up, they still get mail and care package deliveries :-)
I don't know about Yokosuka, but I know it was very difficult (basically impossible) to get things UPS or Fed Ex delivered to Misawa. USPS is your best bet.
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I forgot to add, while it's a US mailing address as far as postage goes, you will need to fill out a customs form. I would be careful about shipping small, expensive electronics like iPods, because there have been several instances of those things going missing, and then there's a bug dispute if it happened in the mps or the USPS side of the mail process, so getting a claim is very hard.
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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Since you are sending to an FPO box, use the flat rate boxes as sailorwifenmom said. If you use FedEx or UPS, then your package will get transferreed to USPS anyway until it gets picked up by the military mail system, so why pay extra. Yes, you do get a dollar off of postage when mailed to an FPO or APO address.
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