Mailroom Monday: December 24, 2012
Posted by Operation Write Home on Dec 24, 2012 in Homefront Blog, Mailroom Monday | 2 commentsHo ho ho! Christmas is tomorrow – and the end of 2012 is chasing not far behind! This week we overcame a few milestones: we surpassed 2,000 contacts … and went over 6,500 boxes! Merry Christmas to our heroes – and to all of YOU!
This past week we shipped 11,550 cards at a cost of $566.55...we did try to tackle the 2-million-card milestone, but it looks like we’ll be a little short of that for 2012….but 2013, look out, here we come! Here’s where this week’s cards went:
To heroes serving in Afghanistan
375 cards to an Air Force unit
375 cards to an Army unit
170 cards to an Air Force unit
170 cards to an Army unit
370 cards to an Army unit
370 cards to an Army unit
380 cards to an Air Force unit
170 cards to an Air Force unit
175 cards to an Army unit
165 cards to an Army unit
170 cards to an Army unit
170 cards to an Air Force unit
170 cards to an Army unit
155 cards to an Army unit
155 cards to an Army unit
155 cards to a National Guard unit
340 cards to an Army unit
340 cards to an Army unit
340 cards to an Army unit
340 cards to an Air Force unit
155 cards to an Army unit
340 cards to an Air Force unit
155 cards to an Air Force unit
340 cards to an Air Force unit
155 cards to an Air Force unit
155 cards to an Army unit
155 cards to a Marine unit
155 cards to an Army unit
340 cards to a National Guard unit
340 cards to an Army unit
155 cards to an Air Force unit
155 cards to an Army unit
340 cards to an Army unit
340 cards to an Air Force unit
To heroes on a ship at sea
175 cards to a Navy unit
340 cards to a Navy unit
To heroes serving in Iraq
370 cards to a mixed unit
To heroes serving in Korea
155 cards to an Army unit
To heroes serving in Kuwait
360 cards to an Army unit
155 cards to an Army unit
155 cards to an Army unit
To heroes serving in Qatar
155 cards to an Air Force unit
155 cards to an Air Force unit
155 cards to an Air Force unit
The final extra packets of Christmas AnyHero mail were shipped out last week – they’ll likely be a little late but might make it in time for Christmas week at least! The holiday mail just poured in for weeks past the deadline, so we might figure out something different next year 
Number of boxes sent: 6,506
Number of hero contacts: 2002
Total cards sent: 1,972,203
Deadline reminders: Calendar is here
Christmas: Please hold til summer if you can so we don’t have to store them. (We have no warehouse so they’re kept in shippers’ homes.)
Valentines: Dec 31
Winter: Jan 10
St Patricks: Jan 31 *Note that we never have gotten requests, but this date is here for those who love the green
Easter: Feb 7
Mother’s Day and general spring: March 31
you may have come across this before . . . but I was wondering if there is any limitations as to Passover? (Yes, I am Jewish) and I didn’t want to say anything about Chanukah . . . but . . . now that it is going to come up to Passover . . . I was thinking that it might be nice for a Jewish soldier to have a Jewish themed card to send home to their family and friends?
We actually don’t send cards for Jewish holidays but not because we don’t love our Jewish-American heroes. But because we haven’t got a clue which units might have Jewish service members in them. If we ever do get special requests we’ll ask for those, but we only got a request once about 4 or 5 years ago. Making general thinking of you cards or blank ones works for special occasions that we don’t include in the boxes – they can customize the message inside with their own words. Hope that makes sense?