"These boxes are going to forward deployed troops that can't easily go shopping, you can't just maybe go buy a toothbrush," Julie DeMaria, Founder of Operation: Care and Comfort said.
"Of course during the holidays, we want to send a little holiday cheer, so there's stockings and ornaments and hand-written letters and all kinds of great stuff to let them know that we're thinking about them," she said.
"You and me are talking here because of them. We can express our emotions, everything, openly without being afraid because of the sacrifice they did for us," said San Francisco Postmaster Sunil Chanan.
"It can take weeks in some cases to get them directly to these military units in some undisclosed locations, so we want people to ship them early," DeMaria said.
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