Mailing Address

By the way, if you wish to send us anything - letters, pictures, candy… we have our address for the first few months. We can email it to you if you like, and many of you already have it.

Important notes:
· I didn’t change my name, so don’t address stuff to Kim w/(chris' last name) I’m not sure I’ll be able to get it.
· Apparently the Post Office there charges some sort of duty on imports, so we will have to pay to get packages from them. I’m not sure if it’s based on weight, or value, but something to keep in mind… might be a bit conservative until we let you know.
· Should go w/o saying, but don’t send anything valuable, anything with any bank info or personal ID info, or anything else you, or we, would be heart broken if it got ‘lost’ in the mail…
· Mail is supposed to take between 3-6 weeks, so get writing now!
· Make sure to write PAR AVION or AIR MAIL on your packages, apparently it has taken upwards of 2 years for some packages to make it ‘ground.’

If you want to send us books, magazines, news, basically anything printed that might go by “Media Mail” here in the U.S. the Post Office has something called “M-bags” that are for international mailing of printed media. We checked them out online and it looks like 11 lbs is about $40 to Cameroon, much cheaper I’m sure than regular post. Just something to keep in mind, depending on if you are planning to send anything to us of that nature. We are bringing about 10 books, and apparently the PC headquarters has a small ‘library’ of books other volunteers leave behind to pool, so we should be OK for a while.

CHEERS!