If your tour is ending soon…

August 30th, 2005

The Hobbit Hole still owes knives to many troops that asked for them. One “problem” we’re seeing now is that tours in Iraq are ending for some units that have requested knives.

If your unit’s APO is due to be deactivated within one month, please email me immediately. We’d like your home address, so we can mail it there, rather than have it chase you back and forth from your duty station. If we send the knife after your APO is deactivated, it could take weeks for the military mail system to return it to the US. It will still get to you, but it might take much longer.

We really wish we could have gotten the knife to you while you were still deployed, and could get some use out of it, but you get your knife, whether over there, or back home. It’s our way of saying thanks.

August was a busy month for knives. As the Hobbit Hole got mostly caught up on shipping the Gerber LMF, requests for Camillus knives piled up. The good news is, the Camillus knives themselves piled up, and we have them on hand. Here’s one of two large boxes of knives, waiting for me to put the finishing touches on them. Each knife shown still needs about an hour’s work before it’s in the box, and ready to take to the post office, with the customs form all filled out.

If the knives are to be shipped to a stateside address, I can print my own postage, and just drop them off at the post office when I go in to work at midnight. Anything going overseas requires me to stand in line at the post office, and have the customs forms processed.

So if you’re headed back home within a month, please consider having me send the knife to your home address, rather than risking delay by sending it to your APO. Thank you.

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