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<p>LOL!!! Got 'ya beat…think I might have got that covered between I-Day and thanksgiving break! </p>
<p>Looking back on this year thus far, just wish I had some prosac… had to settle for JM’s diet of merlot and chocolate… heavy on the merlot! ;)</p>
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<p>when the time comes, you will want to send mail/packages to your plebe using the regular postal service (the flat rate boxes work best for this) …especially during plebe summer…the reason for this is that they will be delivered right to bancroft…</p>
<p>if you send stuff through parcel post, fed-ex, etc, the stuff will be delivered elsewhere (not sure of where “elsewhere” is, but to another spot on the yard), that requires your plebe to be “accompanied” by an upperclass to retrieve it…something the upperclass just love to do…escorting unworthy plebes around so that they can get cookies from home :eek: </p>
<p>needless to say, this is something that you want to avoid… and they (your plebe) will not appreciate it, no matter how home-baked and delicious those cookies might be… they are trying to fly below the radar…</p>
<p>so sending care packages is great- and even important…but send regular mail, and space them out!!!</p>
<p>Even during the academic year he complains that it is a hassle to get to the express office and if you don’t go promptly, they send a message to your Company Officer telling them you haven’t picked up your box…not the attention you want.</p>
<p>“send regular mail, and space them out!!!”
As much as you want to send often, don’t! They do not have room for all of your good intentions. He sent us a picture of a mound of “goodies” that he and the roommates were trying to find another home for when they had to move rooms at the end of Plebe summer.</p>
<p>Profmom is dead on with the express office. The day your item arrives, you get a late notice (why a late notice…I have no clue…it is kind of hard to predict the day your package will arrive…plus no one goes down to check every day if you know a package is coming ahead of time). Then the next morning you get a 2nd late notice and I have never experienced a 3rd warning yet, but I am sure they email the company officer. In other words, you have 2 days to pick up an item before your company officer knows about it.</p>
<p>Jadler03 is right plus my Mid said that the Express Office is only open until 2 or 3 in the afternoon which makes it tough if you have all six or seven classes on any given day. He also said that the people working in there are very cranky.</p>
<p>^^^^^Ditto.</p>
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<p>Bah. I’m jus zis guy, you know? :o</p>
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<p>I wonder if the mess attendants and the barbers have gotten any better over the last 16 years… :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Okay, since I haven’t sent one, does one procure these “flat rate” boxes at the post office?</p>
<p>Yes. Priority Mail (only flat-rate service I know of) boxes can be had (for free, I think) at the USPO.</p>
<p>Nothing’s for free at the USPO!!</p>
<p>Yep, they’re free. They come in two different sizes and it’s a flat 8 bucks to pack them as full as you can get them and send them off.</p>
<p>you can go online at USPS.com and order a box of 10 or 25 and yes indeed, USPS delivers them to you FOR FREE</p>
<p>I am clutching my chest, while tears run down. Something for free from the USPO?</p>
<p>The emotion I am feeling! 
:D</p>
<p>Thanks so much! I will make sure I order them, so I have them on standby ready to go.</p>
<p>LOL…nurseypoo, you crack me up!</p>
<p>Well, I was channeling more of Fred Sanford. :D</p>
<p>Your sense of humor will serve you well as the mom of a Midshipman! Semper Gumpy is the unofficial motto of USNA Parents…Always Flexible but it should probably included Keep a smile on too!</p>
<p>and a bag of tissues
and some chocolate
and phone numbers of moms to call from USNA
and lots of praying</p>
<p>that’s the complete formula in my book to chime into atrmom’s recipe for success!:-)</p>
<p>I’ll buy your book, Peskemom, since your advice is always sage.</p>
<p>Atrmom, I will try and be Gumby and bend!</p>
<p>Right now, I’m still at the smile one minute, sniffle (you know, the whiney tears stuff) the other.</p>
<p>Does the sniffling eventually let up? Sometimes, I think I’m losing my mind.</p>
<p>not yet
and judging from that fact that I’m a mom of a soon to be 30 year old, 28 year old, 26 year old and 23 year old for whom I choke up for still as well</p>
<p>probably
not ever</p>
<p>comes with the ‘mother gene’ we all got upon delivery
:-)</p>