post to ops
I do understand that it is nice to receive goody boxes in theatre (and there were a surprising number of people who got nothing throughout their tours), but I have to say I was extremely frustrated at the months it took for boxes to arrive from family while every other day the postie would come round with a sack of endless boxes of humbugs, melted chocolate, broken biscuits, socks and factor 50 etc which no one really wanted. Perhaps there is a balance to be struck? Rather than disengaging the public from spontaneous and well-intentioned support, they could be encouraged to contact local squadrons, stations, units etc and then send items that people genuinely appreciate (jaffa cakes and magazines for example) - to named individuals. I certainly knew who in my section was getting nothing and would have liked a personal box.