If you are sending your parcel to an address with an AFPO number you may wish to fill up your box to the 2kg weight with a few treats but please know that this is not necessary and you should not feel obligated. Sending a quilt or a laundry bag plus a letter is really enough and the guys and girls can get other edible treats in the care packages that are sent regularly by other generous Aussies.
Please stick the list but if you have any other ideas don't be afraid the check
with me.
The following list is for those on the ground - for sending to HMA Ships see
bottom of the page.
Food
Dried fruit,
Individual sachets
of drinking chocolate, coffee,
Tea bags
Lollies, chocolates
– look for things that are typically Australian – I have found the following
ones to be very popular – The Natural Confectionary Company, Smarties, Jaffas,
Caramello Koalas, Violet Crumbles, Crunchies, Strawberries and Cream, Minties,
Mint Leaves
Biscuits – Timtams
ANZACS – although I believe that they receive a tin of ANZACS from the RSL at
ANZAC time anyway.
Individual Packets
of Twisties, Cheezles, Shapes, savoury biscuits – these are great packing and
light
Beef jerky
Extra chewing gum
Space sticks
Small tins tuna and
tuna and crackers packs
Yogurt muesli bars
Extras
Note pad, writing
paper, envelopes- Officeworks has bulk packs of small lined pads or small
spiral notepads
Blank cards to
write home
Pens- place in a
ziplock bag just in case they leak
Pencil
Pack of cards
Magazines (health
and fitness, sports, fishing, outback living, even gardening and New Idea!
Books (no romance
novels)
Recent Sport
sections/Travel sections/ Crosswords and sudoku pages/property sections from
the papers
Small travel games
- chess, ludo, checkers
Mini books of
sudoku, crosswords, word search
Black or white
socks
Dark beanies
What not to send:
You have to remember these boxes will be inspected by customs, sometimes in
Middle Eastern countries.
alcohol
clothing
aerosols
cigarettes
pork
magazines with
naked women
any religious
materials
What
to send to those at sea
The following information was provided by one of the Ships' Chaplains
Basically send
anything (food wise) that won't melt. People seem to like biscuits (like
pizza shapes), bags of lollies (like snakes, mixed lollies, mentoes, fruit
tingles, life savers, chewy gum), cup-a-soup, - assorted nuts with or without
fruit are very popular, potato chips in tins - (like pringles). Non-food
= magazines, puzzle books, mini-puzzles,
