CARE PACKAGE CENTRAL

I completely stole my neighbor's blog post about care packages and just changed the name and house number. 

So now that I'm finally settled in at site....YOU CAN ALL SEND ME CARE PACKAGES!!! You do have to manage writing my address in cyrillic, but it will be a fun exercise for everyone! If you really are lost, just google it. I'm sure there's some youtube videos that can help you out.

It should take 1-3 weeks for me to receive a care package, and it will probably be held at our post office until I go pick it up (unless it's a small padded envelope, then I might receive that directly at my house). So I might get stuff in time for Christmas!! Kristen, my neighb, also told me that her mom usually uses medium flat rate boxes from the post office. It's $47 but can fit quite a bit and weight doesn't matter. The karma that I'll be sending back to you for sending me care packages will be worth more than all the gold teeth one can find in the mouths of Ukrainians. 

So what should you send me? Thanks for asking. See the separate tab at the top of my blog for care package suggestions, so it will always be easily accessible. Oh and I'd love to receive cards too! Less expensive for you and I can decorate my house with them.

Here is my address:

Сара Финеган
вул Кiрова, 8
с. Костянтинiвка
Мелiтопольський Район
Запорізька обл.
Україна            72364
UKRAINE

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english version (use this only for customs)

Sarah Finnegan
Street Kirova, 8
Village Konstantinivka
Melitopolsky Rayon
Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Ukraine          72364

regulations for sending packages:

• please do not send valuable items through the mail, as mail sometimes arrives opened, with items missing, or does not arrive at all. (and don’t declare values too high, no matter what's in the package)
• use padded envelopes versus boxes when you can (the harder to open the better)
• write on the outside of the package: “goods for personal use” (things are less likely to be opened this way)
• please do not indicate anywhere in the address or on the package that it is for official use or project related (i.e. peace corps or TEFL project).

make sure you do NOT send the following items:

• money, credit cards, valuables/expensive objects, and any type of jewelry
• documents such as personal identifications, diplomas, and certificates
• any kind of medicine, plants, seeds, alcoholic beverages (darn)
• DVDs, CDs, videotapes, audiotapes, any type of dictionaries.
• (you can ship CDs, DVDs and other media into ukraine, but they cannot be returned to the U.S. unless you can prove that they originally came from in the U.S. Therefore, people shipping such items to Ukraine need an itemized list certified by the company doing the shipping)
• flammable, explosive devices, sharp objects (which is pretty much common sense)

regulations for mailing food:

Дашка says "send woman america". we're still working on her english

• not more than one box/pack per one kind of food
• all food weight should not exceed 4.5 lbs.
• total value of it should not exceed $100
• food should not be raw – it must be canned or cooked or otherwise prepared
• it should be factory packed.