heartcross

If we have the APO address for the summer cruise ship (listed on the website for the ship) can we send a Mid a letter? Or is this one of those things we DON'T want to do, to call attention to the Mid? Thanks.

jadler03

I can't help you on how mail operations work with respect to MIDS on summer cruise. However, for 3-4 weeks I would say that mail could wait. If the ship is in port, then your son/daughter should be able to call....out at sea is another thing.

usna09mom

Most mids will have access to email/internet on their cruises every few days or so to touch base with their families/friends. Don't know how long mail takes to arrive at APO addresses. Last summer I spent a great deal of time tracking down a FedEx package containing about $1,000 worth of clothes that I sent to my mid, but was delivered to the wrong address in Larchmont, NY...fortunately, the package eventually made it back to California. Phew!

jadler03

Exactly! I can imagine letters sometimes getting misplaced. The chances of your packets (how information is sent over the internet) getting lost or not arriving on the internet are a lot less than a piece of snail mail being misplaced.

MODADKC

Our mid was able to email on the summer cruise. He was on a destroyer from Germany to Virgina. Went well.

Now he is on Yard Patrol. No easy email from YP ships at least on his YP tour, but he has had access while in port to public computers.

Victor '10 - Political Science

usna09mom

modadkc,
Space Shuttle crews communicate more frequently with Earthlings than VOST crewmembers on blue water races! Let's hear it for American Promise and Swift for AMAZING performances in the Marion to Bermuda race!