Post Office and New Idea

Looking back on a blog post from a few weeks ago, I expressed to you all that I had a horrible post office experience. I can now say that I have had a wonderful experience! On Saturday I was there as they opened the doors for business and was able to ship out 17 large flat rate boxes full of items. I was in the mind set that I would not let any comments bother me and would keep patient and thankful. The odds were unfortunately stacked against me. I was hoping for at least 2 clerks and no line. I was third in line, with about 5 people behind me. The first customer they took, they realized there credit card machine was down. That now leaves 1 clerk with many customers behind me, approaching 10 to 15 or so. I am now at the counter and although I had two boxes in my hand, my handy dandy father started bringing in the remainder. You could tell the people behind me were not very thrilled and during the whole visit, we only had one comment. At the very beginning, a police officer mentioned that we should be paying those behind us in line to wait (couldn't believe this!). My dad mentioned we were shipping every box to our boys and girls in Afghanistan and they remained cordial. The entire time I was at the desk, the other counters remained closed. All of those people waited patiently behind me for 45 minutes when I shipped all these boxes. The clerk was very friendly and thought it was so awesome that we were sending all these. Although it was tempting to tell the person behind me to, "go ahead," those of you who visit the post office often know that this can turn into everyone wanted to skip ahead since they just have one or two packages. I would end up waiting there all day if I was that giving. I kept optimistic and it was a SUCCESS! Hope you receive these packages soon Task Force Eagle Lift!

New small project I am working on. I am putting together a box to send over to our contact in Kandahar. Just a quick re-cap: this is a group of soldiers that built their own coffee shop to help boost morale and serve as a central location where the soldiers can "get away." I am using a little of my spare time to doodle something up. I am taking a regular cardboard box and pasting little sayings and drawings all over. I am then going to use either laminating sheets or a liquid sealer to cover it so that nothing will fall off. What will this serve as? A simple *hug* from home! I am going to send it and ask that they leave it on there in their shop. Every week I will be sending a batch of letters, cards, drawings, etc. collected here in Houston. They can then compile them in the box and if a soldiers is pouring a cup of coffee, he/she can take a letter or card to help brighten their day. Cheesy? Maybe. But I think it will go over real well :)

Here is the start of it!

Will update when I am finished here in a couple of days! I think it is going to turn out really neat.

I would like to end with a simple request. Do you have a DVD or two in your collection that you know you will most likely never watch again? Would you like to help support our troops? We are looking for DVDs that we can send over to the shop. Someone has donated a TV and DVD player, but they are in need of some movies that they can have available for viewing. I have already gone through my collection and pulled 10 or so out. Comment below or feel free to email me at projectfrontlines@gmail.com if you would like to donate some goods.

Goal for today: making it to Treemont Retirement Community in Houston Texas. All of the residents have filled out cards to send to our troops! They also mentioned that they wanted to cover some of the costs of shipping - huge hooray!