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posted by [personal profile] askye at 07:04pm on 14/11/2004
I really need to cut down on my caffiene consumption because it makes me twice as nervous and freaked. Dad coming home and the place looking bad and mygod I'm not ready yet is nerve wracking enough.

Tonight I watched ABC News Tonight and they had a piece on sending mail to soldiers and how the Department of Defense is asking that only family and close friends send packages (supposedly becuase of the attacks on convoys) and that people should not send packages to Any Soldier, even Attn: Any Soldier.

See Wednesday I discovered anysoldier.com that has a list of contacts of soldiers who will get mail sent to them and distribute it to others in their group, unit, whatever it's called. You send it to their name Attn: Any Soldier.

So me being me I ran out and bought a bunch of stuff and was going to get ready to send it and now I see this and it just pushes my caffienated already stressed brain into "Omigod! How can they do that! Is it accurate????" I sent off an email to the website and I hope I'll get an answer. I'm thinking that maybe going to work Thursday was a bad idea.

What's come to me, recently, is that I'm very very undisciplined. Which I actually already knew but it was one of those things I'd rather wish away than deal with but it must be a sign of maturity and sanity that I'm tired of wishing away a great deal of things and that's one of them.

However, I'm not exactly sure how to move to be more discplined except to just do it and not just doing it is the problem. This has to be the big huge thing I talk about when I see my therapist. It's times like this when I wish there was a pill to fix everythind and who cares about trying.

I'm so over caffienated and stressed and which only makes me want caffiene more.
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posted by [identity profile] riani1.livejournal.com at 07:12am on 15/11/2004
I used to do support for the US Postal Service. Yes, Any Soldier mail has been suspended. I'm surprised that website doesn't know that, unless they're re-addressing things to real soldiers. Please wait for confirmation that this is legit before sending them anything.
 
posted by [identity profile] askye.livejournal.com at 02:52pm on 15/11/2004
They do have actual soldiers as contacts for group and you send it to that person with "attn: any soldier" so they know it's not just for them personally.

But it looked like, according to ABC news, that the DoD doesn't want anyone but friends and family to send packages.
 
posted by [identity profile] riani1.livejournal.com at 02:54pm on 15/11/2004
OK, with a specific soldier, that's OK by postal regs. And you're just a friend they haven't met, yet.
 
posted by [identity profile] riani1.livejournal.com at 07:13am on 15/11/2004
My husband just came up with the idea of contacting the Red Cross unit attached to a particular military group or with the chaplain for a unit.

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