Via Snopes.com, a program by the United States Post Office to help you mail things to troops
Since the preponderance of "free merchandise" offers promoted via e-mail turn out to be nothing but hoaxes and pranks targeted at the gullible, we're pleased whenever we can announce that such an offer is genuine, especially so in this case as the ultimate beneficiaries are the men and women of the U.S. armed forces who are stationed overseas.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) will supply for free, to anyone who asks, specially packaged Priority Mail supplies for shipping "care kits" to members of the U.S. military stationed overseas. [...]
I went to the USPS website to see what the deal was, and noted that not only do they have these type of prepackaged items, ANY of the Priority Mail materials can be ordered without charge (aside from the stuff that is prestamped with postage). They have a lot of free stuff, as a matter of fact, and that's pretty neat.
And then, there is the stuff you pay for--would you like a novel about a postal detective? A CD of the Postal Service Band? A Marylin Monroe teddy bear? Or maybe an Elvis bear is more your style? Howzabout a mambo lapel pin?
What a country.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at July 27, 2006 08:29 AM