mail service wasn’t THAT bad… but it WAS a tad disjointed in that you’d get stuff out of sequence from when it was mailed, especially if your unit was moving around.
When I was stationed in Iceland in the 70’s that’s how it went. Everything took forever to arrive, it traveled by ship. Candy bars in vending machines had all melted and re-solidified.
chocolate was bad to send. potato chips were popular. I sent a friend a care package for St David’s day, march 1st, he said he’d been feeling blue about the day and then in the mail call he got the package right on the day.
We had to move our partisan primary elections back from September to August because the feds claimed they couldn’t guarantee that we could get the results of the primaries printed up onto absentee ballots for the general election, mailed to the troops, and returned before the 1st Tuesday in November. This is the same federal government that knows exactly where each and every one of those troops is (right where they ordered them to be) and is in charge of getting mail to and from them. But, due to this shaky claim of incompetence in mail service, millions of college students get disenfranchised because they’re at summer jobs, or on vacation, or packing for school, or otherwise away from their polling locations. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d think that somebody who wants military people to be able to vote just hates it if college students get to do it, too.
BE THIS GUY over 6 years ago
Maybe BD can share the cookies with that nice captain.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 6 years ago
Close enough.
Argythree over 6 years ago
@David Huie Green: You know what they used to say about ‘close enough’. That only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades…
Army_Nurse over 6 years ago
mail service wasn’t THAT bad… but it WAS a tad disjointed in that you’d get stuff out of sequence from when it was mailed, especially if your unit was moving around.
ACK! Premium Member over 6 years ago
What with maintaining food, water and all other war essentials in a combat zone personal mail doesn’t take the highest priority.
ChristineMurphy over 6 years ago
When I was stationed in Iceland in the 70’s that’s how it went. Everything took forever to arrive, it traveled by ship. Candy bars in vending machines had all melted and re-solidified.
Wizard of Ahz-no relation over 6 years ago
chocolate was bad to send. potato chips were popular. I sent a friend a care package for St David’s day, march 1st, he said he’d been feeling blue about the day and then in the mail call he got the package right on the day.
gantech over 6 years ago
Trudeau might be on to something here…it has been said that if you want to get the true meaning of Christmas, look to Easter.
LIBERTY1 over 6 years ago
The government delivering the mail. Not one of Franklin’s better ideas.
summerdog86 over 6 years ago
I was sure it would be a box full of unrecognizable melted chocolate. Who can find chocolate bunnies for Easter, at Valentine’s Day?
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 6 years ago
We had to move our partisan primary elections back from September to August because the feds claimed they couldn’t guarantee that we could get the results of the primaries printed up onto absentee ballots for the general election, mailed to the troops, and returned before the 1st Tuesday in November. This is the same federal government that knows exactly where each and every one of those troops is (right where they ordered them to be) and is in charge of getting mail to and from them. But, due to this shaky claim of incompetence in mail service, millions of college students get disenfranchised because they’re at summer jobs, or on vacation, or packing for school, or otherwise away from their polling locations. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d think that somebody who wants military people to be able to vote just hates it if college students get to do it, too.
bakana over 6 years ago
The Chocolate will catch up with him about a Month after he finally gets Home.