From: amheater@BYE.SAILORcogeco.ca   
      
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   > If there is a Military Family Resource Center in your area, they mail   
   > packages directly from the Center, through the Military post office, to   
   > members deployed. They are subject to inspection, and in accordance with   
   > all international packages, Perishable and Open Foods may not be sent. Can   
   > goods might be the exception, but you can ask any post office for that   
   > information, since it is international rules, not related to Military   
   > locations.   
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   Good idea about the MFRC.  When our son was in Rwanda, Bosnia & Kosovar, we   
   sent   
   food stuffs, including home baked cookies (in Pringles containers) and   
   always via the Canada   
   Post Office on base. He was overseas only one Christmas, at which time they   
   didn't charge for   
   the mail going to him.  I did check each time to make sure we could send   
   whatever we intended   
   to.  Regs may have changed since he was last deployed, 1999-2000.   
      
   One thought too, for anyone sending store bought cookies (if still allowed   
   to be posted) to troops.   
   The first time David was overseas, in Rwanda, in our first parcel we send   
   several bags of   
   'Maple Leaf' cookies.  He passed them out to orphaned children his unit was   
   involved with.  The   
   kids loved them and would flock to David each time he went near.  When we   
   asked him   
   if there was anything else he wanted us to send, he answered more Maple   
   Leafs.  He was   
   able to give some children in Bosnia the cookies too .. again they were a   
   big hit, but David   
   told us the guys in his unit also kept asking him if he had any more and/or   
   let them know when he   
   received more from home.  [They are shaped like maple leaves and have a   
   maple taste, as most of   
   you probably know.]  Got the idea from my Mum, as she use to send them to me   
   when I was living   
   in the UK .. cried the first time I opened a parcel from home and saw them.   
      
   wrcn   
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