Reply #22: Addendum

[RandomUser]

Although Chief Wiggles has a toy drive setup, I think your notion of CARE packages for Iraqi's on a personal basis is a good idea too.

The Toy drive thing helps troop morale and the children. But I think your idea of having the exact names of residents and (not sure if you intend this also) setting up correspondence links between us and them is good too. And I applaud you for the effort.

But the fiasco that Chief Wiggle had to go through to set up the toy drive might be instructive on how to set up an alternative arrangement. He had trouble with shipping, because the
original military shipping address got overwhelmed by over 400 packages the first few days, and had to shut down, because base security needs to check every package for security reasons, and 400 packages were too much. So he then had to set up a commercial shipping alternative. Also, there's a interesting breakdown of what should and should not be shipped as toys -- this might serve as a template for what you're considering.