How do you send care packages to navy basic training???

Question

anybody know the rules about sending care packages to navy basic training. my boyfriend is there and i want to send him sum stuff from home but i dont know what i can send or how to send it

Answer 1

dont do it! my friend went into the airforce and his mom sent him a care package, and his fellow trainees busted his balls for it. just dont send it

Answer 2

You're better off waiting till he gets to school. There's really no where to put anything and you're very restricted on what you can have.

Answer 3

During basic training, I don't believe they are allowed "care" packages.  Letters yes, care packages no.  Wait until the person is through with basic and then start sending the packages.  

Answer 4

My husband is in the Army, so I'm not sure if it's different for Navy, but I'm assuming you're allowed to send packages as well. I mailed my husband a giant box with shampoo, sunblock, tissues, hand sanitizer, soap, band-aids, shaving cream, razors, deodorant, toothpaste and toothbrush, laundry detergent, paper, pens, envelopes, stamps, and TONS of pictures.

He was allowed to keep everything that I sent him, and I've never heard somebody get so excited over a box full of toiletries! Haha.

Your boyfriend should mail you a letter soon with his address and a list of what to send and what NOT to send. Definitely avoid clothes, food, books, newspapers, basically anything that's exciting you can't send him. Believe me, he will appreciate all the little things you do send him though. Stick to the list and you should be fine! Remember, send as many pictures as you possibly can, because he'll appreciate that the most.

Answer 5

If you send him anything besides pictures or letters then it had better only be necessities like soap or shampoo. Until he gets to school or on a ship all food or s**y stuff is off limits. So are tapes, Cd's, dvds and things like that. In fact if you try to send him anything that is  s*x related the Petty officers in charge will make fun of him and confiscate it as they have the right to open any package. As for food, some are cool and will hold it until the end of training or let him have it on liberty weekend after grad. Some might let him choose to "share" with the whole company, but most are a**holes and will eat it themselves

Answer 6

send him some pictures of yourself, trust me he'll love it more than anything

Answer 7

dont waste your time sending care packages. it will get confiscated.

Answer 8

You don't want to, trust me. Anything bigger than an envelope they'll open before it even gets to him, and probably either dispose of or send back to you based on their discretion. When your in basic training, your privacy isn't worth a d**n, and you don't have much more rights than prisoners with regards to mail secrecy.

If they suspect that there's anything in an envelope aside from a letter, they'll make him open it in front of his entire unit. Trust me, don't send anything other than a letter or maybe a picture with nothing vulgar or illicit. There was this one recruit who'd always get sent candy from his mom. The drill instructors would make him open his package in front of everyone, read the embarrassing letter to the whole unit, then after they got tired of humiliating him they'd take his candy home to give it to their kids. This happened to several other people who had things other than 'a letter' in envelope's addressed to them. Take the advice from someone who's been in your boyfriends shoes, don't do it.

When your boyfriend leaves basic, he'll have more privileges, and then you'll be able to talk to him and mail him most things, depending on the rules of the A-school he's going to.