Break the Tension in the Wait-PS Care Package Stories

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In an effort to break some of the tension for those still waiting to hear of their appointment and to offer some ideas for parents who kids are now P2B, lets hear some funny, creative, embarrassing, scandal stories of care packages sent over PS.
 
I never had the privilege of being a plebe, but in MC boot camp I recall at mail call Christmas day receiving care packages with all kinds of Christmas goodies- the drill instructors on duty (thrilled I am sure at being there on Christmas) then had us all dump the goodies in the middle of the squad bay, jump up and down smashing everything, then took us "island hopping" from sand pit (calisthenics area) to sand pit and thrashed us good while we sang Christmas carols, and then back to the squad bay to clean up and have some "personal time". Oh, the memories. I am guessing that plebe summer will be a bit more PC, which I think is a good thing overall. :)
 
My family didn't get a chance to send anything, so all of my company mates would give me stuff from theirs.

It was some weekend night, I think (it was all a blur), where I ate probably two dozen or more chocolate chip cookies as well as some other candy I had received from my classmates. Needless to say, at about 0100 I woke and had to make it to the head before I puked my guts out!! So happy I didn't toss my cookies on the deck of our room!! :eek:

Never ate that much in one sitting again. :p
 
not PS but knob year at Citadel - I loved my mom's apple spice bread. Parents were going to send me so but mom wasn't feeling well so dad made it. He neglected to do the toothpick think to see the bread was cooked all the way through. It was in fact barely half cooked. He wrapped it in two layers of saran wrap and two layers of tin foil and shipped it to SC in early September. There was no express mail back then so it took a full week in the midwest / southern heat to arrive.

My cadre corporal was on guard when I was 'driving' the Sally Port with my package. He instructed me to gather the the whole squad and we were to eat it all at one time so it didn't draw ants and cockroaches ( they are NOT palmetto bugs they're big HONKING COCKROACHES). So all 10 guys in the squad gather in the stuffy hot room, my roommate has a ka bar knife to do the honors. He cuts it open and the smell of rotten / fermented apple bread instantly fills the room. There are a lot of foul smells at citadel, paper pulp, pluff mudd and such but this was BAD. Everyone is piling out of the room. This attracts attention of the corporal ... doom on us
 
^^^^ Related toxic bread mass via USPS story. My mom bought some beer-cheddar cheese bread at a church bake sale, wrapped it up in layers of nice, insulating foil and plastic wrap and sent it via USPS and Fleet Post Office NY NY to Naval Station Rota, Spain. In July. After a lengthy journey in the military mail system, the package arrived, an oozing bio-hazard of damp brown wrapping paper and a stench akin to Satan’s mouthwash and the dumpster behind a dive bar on Sunday morning.
 
Capt MJ said:
^^^^ Related toxic bread mass via USPS story. My mom bought some beer-cheddar cheese bread at a church bake sale, wrapped it up in layers of nice, insulating foil and plastic wrap and sent it via USPS and Fleet Post Office NY NY to Naval Station Rota, Spain. In July. After a lengthy journey in the military mail system, the package arrived, an oozing bio-hazard of damp brown wrapping paper and a stench akin to Satan’s mouthwash and the dumpster behind a dive bar on Sunday morning.
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was the EOD det alerted? even if not you should add it to be a true sea story
 
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