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NEW Shipping Tip - 3/1/2007 6:49:31 PM

free2be

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I have been informed by one of our Heroes serving in Iraq that separating soaps, and other items of "smell" in ziplock bags does not help keep the taste from getting into food and/or tobacco items. If possible, it is best to ship all food (+tobacco) items separate from non-food items of smell. He has asked me to pass this along to all that are sending things to loved ones, his soapy tasting jerky wasn't very good

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RE: NEW Shipping Tip - 3/1/2007 6:58:28 PM

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we (OpFTH) NO LONGER ship soap together with any items. It either only goes with the magazine , socks and such. Otherwise, we double zip lock it and keep other items for eatting in their jip locks and then into another box inside of the main box, the small usps priority boxes work good and they are free. I have been known to donate large SAMS CLUB size soap to local homeless places instead of sending it to the troops. they would rather enjoy the food and just use the military issue bars for the time being.

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RE: NEW Shipping Tip - 3/1/2007 7:36:57 PM

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LOL...that's exactly what he said too, we love the snacks!!

What happened was one persons family member was sending everything in 1 box, soap, cigarettes, laundry supplies. The cigarettes tasted like dryer sheets

, but nobody bummed 'em from him

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RE: NEW Shipping Tip - 3/1/2007 8:36:02 PM

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Amy, good info thank you, I pinned this to thte Top so it would remain here with the rest of our inforamtion!
Thnaks again for all you do Darlin! hahahahha

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RE: NEW Shipping Tip - 10/11/2007 9:28:12 AM

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check out local heroes

http://mass-localheroes.org/

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RE: NEW Shipping Tip - 11/8/2007 4:21:03 AM

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my classes volunteer to help our local SOS (Support Our Soldiers) take care of the soap to put in the boxes being sent to the troops each Christmas and our part is filling about 500 soda bottles with soap. By doing this and then washing the outside of the bottle we have pretty well cured the soapy taste on the food. Just be sure to wash the bottles and let them throughly dry before filling them.

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RE: NEW Shipping Tip - 11/8/2007 4:23:13 AM

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oh yes, I am talking about laundry soap in the bottles.

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