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Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Anyone in the Federal Government and Military can contribute to Any Soldier Inc. Our catalog number: 11993. Please help spread the word on this. Thank you, very much, for your support!

The Independent Charities Seal of Excellence is awarded to the members of Independent Charities of America and Local Independent Charities of America that have, upon rigorous independent review, been able to certify, document, and demonstrate on an annual basis that they meet the highest standards of public accountability, program effectiveness, and cost effectiveness. These standards include those required by the US Government for inclusion in the Combined Federal Campaign, probably the most exclusive fund drive in the world. Of the 1,000,000 charities operating in the United States today, it is estimated that fewer than 50,000, or 5 percent, meet or exceed these standards, and, of those, fewer than 2,000 have been awarded this Seal. Any Soldier Inc. is proud to be one of them!

Fundraiser for Any Soldier Inc. Date of event: Sunday August 1st Time: 6-9 pm Price - tickets $15, includes 3 rounds of lasertag (approx 20 minutes each) Located at: 1814 Dolphin Dr Waukesha WI 53186 To purchase tickets please call Jan at 414-840-3046

Consistent with the PACT Act and the proposed rule, the final rule permits individual customers to send shipments of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to other individuals in certain contexts. All intrastate shipments will be permitted within Alaska and Hawaii, including shipments between two individuals located within one of those states. Otherwise, individual customers may mail small quantities of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco in domestic mail, subject to the requirements to the "certain individuals" exception described in DMM 601.11.6. This includes mail to Army Post Office (APO), Fleet Post Office (FPO), and Diplomatic Post Office (DPO) locations where cigarettes and smokeless tobacco are not restricted by the host country. See Overseas Military/Diplomatic Mail in the Postal Bulletin.

So as long as the APO zip code does not restrict tobacco (and some of them do - German destinations for example), you are free to send cigarettes.

Thanks for your support of our overseas military personnel, and please help spread the word about Oconus.com!

Best Regards,
Dan Latvala
Oconus-Shopper.com, LLP
www.oconus.com"

Oh, and there is MORE! Email from 30 June:
"I just read the June 17th Postal Bulletin
(http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/bulletin/2010/pb22287/pdf/kit.pdf) in detail, and I think there is an issue with the implementation of the rules that are going to trip up most APO/FPO shipments. According to the rules, the sender must use Express Mail for any tobacco shipments, including to APO and FPO addresses. As you probably know, there is only Express Mail service available at a very limited number of APO/FPO zip codes.

Maybe if enough people write their elected representatives we can get it changed.

Best Regards,
Dan Latvala
Oconus-Shopper.com, LLP
www.oconus.com
406-333-0274
612-605-1247 (f)"

NOTE: There is a "Restrictions" link on ALL our contacts pages, courtesy of OConus.com, which shows the restrictions to that location. Please note and abide by any and all restrictions. -marty

Recycle your cell phones, PDAs, iPods, laptops, digital cameras, inkjet and laser cartridges, DVD movies, GPS devices, video games and video game consoles to benefit Any Soldier Inc. Click HERE to enroll and get free shipping labels, or contact Recycle for Soldiers at 877-790-1870.

Several of our other participants have had good luck with the iPhone promotion, since there are so many out there now after the 4th generation model was released. We are paying up to $225 per phone and I thought it might be something worth advertising on your website.