Send a card to the troops for free!

[Fritzo]

www.letssaythanks.com is a site ran by Xerox that will let you send a real card to our troops. Pretty neat way to say thank you, and I think they would really appriciate it.

 

[jimbob200521]

Thanks for the heads up, OP.

 

[jlbenedict]

Pretty cool..

Here is something I plan to participate in: Any Soldier

"Sergeant Brian Horn from LaPlata, Maryland, an Army Infantry Soldier with the 173rd Airborne Brigade was in the Kirkuk area of Iraq when he started the idea of Any Soldier to help care for his soldiers. He agreed to distribute packages, that came to him with "Attn: Any Soldier" in the address, to the soldiers who were not getting mail.
Brian recently completed a tour in Afghanistan and is now home, but AnySoldier.com continues.
Any Soldier Inc. started in August 2003 as a simple family effort to help the soldiers in one Army unit, thus our name. However, due to overwhelming requests, on 1 January 2004 the Any Soldiertm effort was expanded to include any member, of any of the Armed Services, in harms way."

 

[Vegitto]

I sent this:
"To whom it may concern:

I'm not from the US of A. I'm from Europe, the Netherlands to be exact. I want to let it be known that I wholly support your troops, and that I think that it's a good thing your fighting for our freedom and theirs. Watch yourself in combat, be nice to the locals (whenever possible) and make it back safely.

Respectfully yours,
My Name"

 

[Fern]

Cool, I sent one and pasted along the link to a bunch of peeps..

Thanks,

Fern

 

[TallBill]

Those AnySoldier boxes rock. I got hooked up with a few on the last deployment. Steer clear from mailing a crap load of small packaged items though. They tend to not be as usefull. Like instead of sending 20 travel shaving creams, send just 2-3 big ones, etc etc. The cards get spread out too and read. I havn't seen any of the Xerox ones yet, but I just got back over here.

 

[Tobolo]

awesome find

 

[imported_LoKe]

Thanks!

 

[ViviTheMage]

sent one

 

[Koharski]

I sent one

but when I first read this I thought it said "send a sound card to the troops". Its such a heartwarming feeling when you recieve a wonderful audidgy in the heat of battle

 

[Fritzo]

Woohoo! I scored a sticky

 

[imported_Cameron]

Cool Find...I sent one.

 

[savvy]

Pretty cool.

 

[clamum]

Cool! Sent one.

 

[Vich]

Sent one. Hoping to send other things aswell.

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: TallBill
Those AnySoldier boxes rock. I got hooked up with a few on the last deployment. Steer clear from mailing a crap load of small packaged items though. They tend to not be as usefull. Like instead of sending 20 travel shaving creams, send just 2-3 big ones, etc etc. The cards get spread out too and read. I havn't seen any of the Xerox ones yet, but I just got back over here.

What do you suggest sending? Since you were there and all...

 

[granolagirl]

Thank you for the AnySoldier and LetsSayThanks links

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: thehstrybean

Originally posted by: TallBill
Those AnySoldier boxes rock. I got hooked up with a few on the last deployment. Steer clear from mailing a crap load of small packaged items though. They tend to not be as usefull. Like instead of sending 20 travel shaving creams, send just 2-3 big ones, etc etc. The cards get spread out too and read. I havn't seen any of the Xerox ones yet, but I just got back over here.

What do you suggest sending? Since you were there and all...

Just like he said, toiletry bits. I'd also recommend reading material (More along the lines of car/cigar/gun/men's magazines rather than whole books) and small USB drives.

My soldiers get boxes from Any Soldier, Soldiers' Angels, Soldier's Wish List, etc. and are grateful for anything. Some observations:

Things they frequently get and don't use (and consequently, piles up in my office):
Camping type foods (Beef jerky, trail mix, and the like)
Toy whistles and toy flashlights
Lotion
Romance novels (in particular, cowboy romance novels)
Shoe insoles
Small stuffed animals
Sunscreen
Tampons and other femine products

Things they frequently get and like:
Candy
Drink mix (Kool-aid, Tang, Gatorade)
Socks
Toiletries