October 3, 2009
Received a note from the mission office which says:
...all of your mail should be sent to the Canada Winnipeg Mission Office at the address below:
Canada Winnipeg Mission
(Missionary Name) (that would be Elder Andrew Robarts)
845 Shaftsbury Boulevard
Winnipeg, MB R3P 0M5
CANADA
If packages are mailed with this format we will be able to sign for them if they become lost, whereas if the Missionary name is first, we cannot retrieve them.
April 7, 2009
I asked:
Do the missionaries in your mission have regular access to e-mail? Is that a good way to write to them? I am concerned about limited computer access so that they don't really have time to read. On the other hand, email doesn't take 2 weeks to get there. What would you advise family and friends?
the information letter said 'Packages should be marked "Missionary supplies" ' The US postal clerk said that we need to list everything in the package. Does marking it "missionary supplies" eliminate the need for itemizing?
How many missionaries generally share an apartment?
What do they like to get in "care packages'? What tends to travel well? What is a wasted effort?
Sister Grimshaw answered:
Missionaries receive an e-mail address in the Mtc--@myldsmail.net. They use it to e-mail home on preparation day. Here they go to a public library for an hour on preparation day and e-mail their Mission president (President Morgan has them hand write brief letters to him) family and friends. They may receive mail and packages addressed to the Mission office.
If you want to itemize your package you may. Packages should be sent by US/Canada Post. If packages come through UPS and others, when they go through customs and are over $20, a brokers fee is attached which means we have to pay to receive the package and will ask for reimbursement from you.
Two missionaries share an apartment.
Care packages--send your missionaries favorites--things that do not weigh much. Cookies should be bar type or they end up cookie crumbs.
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Because I am a little dim, I am not sure that my questions have been thoroughly answered.
About email -
1 hour in the public library for 2 missionaries may not amount to any time at all.
If the cost of postage or time constraints mean that the only way you are going to write to him is by email, then, by all means email.
If you want to get information to him in less than 2 weeks, email. If you want to make sure he really gets it, I would also snail mail it.
I am going to suggest that any email he wants to keep or wants printed up and cannot do there, he can forward home and ask us to take care of it for him.
I personally don't think email is going to be my main method of communication. But it certainly is more affordable!
Hopefully, I will get more information from the postal service - either US or Canadian - about requirements for listing contents of packages. I would rather not have to, of course.
I am hoping that returned missionaries might help with care package suggestions. What did you like? What did you wish for? What was not worth shipping?
1 comment:
Mail was always a little slow in coming but care packeges were always welcome. Especially home made cookies (just have to package them right so when they arrive they don't get crumbled. Sorry I didn't get the chance to come by this evening to your open house. You're one step ahead of me because I didn't know anyone who served in the great CWM and you do. Good luck to you and keep me posted as to your locations. Remember that this will be the best 2 years of your life as long as you work hard doing the Lord's work. You will get discouraged at times but it will all be worth it and it will be a huge learning experience. Just remember, "Many are cold, but few are frozen!" Have a great 2 years. Treasure every moment as it will go by faster than you would imagine.
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