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Michigan Tech Student Foundation

https://secure.touchnet.net/C21042_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=431

Price: $20-$30

• My boys always appreciated the bottomless cup for soda. Not healthy but the break to refill it gave them a little exercise break.
• Good cause, but my son let me know he prefers a more personalized care package. With treats he actually wants to eat.
• My daughter informed us that the finals care packages were not healthy enough. So I think that the Student Foundation is trying to find a happy medium
• My son is the same way, he doesn't drink coffee, and most of the food and snacks in the prepared packages don't appeal to him.
• My son would eat everything on that list, especially the fruit snacks.

Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=care+packages

• Now I just did Amazon to send him a big Reeses peanut butter egg that hopefully this year he will not set on his CPU and melt. And a book to read for fun!
• The other thing that I like to do, although not as personalized, but I order off of Amazon Prime and have them ship to my son in the dorm directly.
• Yes Amazon prime is the way to go for anything you want to send that you can get from Amazon

CarePackages.com

http://www.carepackages.com/

• Did anyone order the snack basket from Campus Market? I got an email on 11/29 that it shipped but my daughter hasn't gotten it yet.
• This happened to us last year, my son got it on the day he was leaving. We complained and never heard back from them. Now I make my own 
• This will be my one and only experience with that company.
• I emailed them last night and got a response today! 
• Response:  Good afternoon, Thank you for your inquiry. We do apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. The care packages for this school arrived 12/4/2015 and are available to pickup at the Habitat for Humanity.  If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact Customer Service at 800-847-0751, Monday - Friday, 9:00 am to 5:30 pm EST
• I called today and got the same info. This is my last Campus Marketing purchase.

 

Ideas

• Hehehe- my care packages always seem to include the things she left behind on her last visit plus the care package items.
• my care pkgs usually include laundry they forgot
• We mail a lot of Applebees gift cards.
• Taco Bell is a staple but I like to change it up sometimes
• We also pick up local restaurant gift cards when we visit.
• Two of my daughters favorites are featured on UPnorth deals (like groupon) a lot so that's how I get those.
• Ours contain left behind items also. Gift cards, study snacks, toothpaste, shampoo, etc
• I saw a great idea for a girl that was a new purse or bag with spring things like sunglasses, lip gloss, hat. That would be fun!
• We are big on the Dominos Pizza gift cards since they deliver and Jimmy Johns those you almost have to get at one of their stores. But he has a lot of Applebees and there is Culvers up there now and McDonalds is always good for the road trips home for caffeine purposes! 
• I also ordered a cookie from Rays he can pick up. 
• He seems to always forget 1 thing, my favorite was his glasses.
• My family traditionally has a cake baked in a lamb shaped mold (Czech) for Easter dinner, so I bake & mail the cake, along with jelly beans, etc. She thought I was silly the first year, but now her friends ask for it wink emoticon
• I ALWAYS include a small toy. She may not play with it, but the boys on her floor usually do!
• I try to include a small lego set or Hot Wheel car in my son's boxes. 
• The $10 chocolate chip cookie I sent my son from wads Dinning hall was a great deal.
• I sent a case of girl scout cookies- about as much nutritional value as the preordered care packages
• Mid-Term & Finals Package - Trader Joe's assortment of Espresso Pillows, Dark Chocolate Cocoa Nibs, Gingermints, Cinnamon Gum... And a fun squishy/throwable toy for stress relief :)   I think this was the favorite package ever, she's mentioned a couple times how wonderful it was! I try to choose things that are back-packable.
• Books to read about the UP

 

How to Mail

• USPS has boxes. One flat rate no matter how much you fit in the box. I use those
•  I'm amazed at how much I can pack into the smallest priority mail. 
• we do USPS as well, couple times we did UPS but that was more costly. 
• USPS works real good and has tracking #s -- from TC area my son gets a package within about 3 days
• Flat rate boxes or Priority boxes from the post office. Mine usually deliver in 3 days from Grand Rapids.
• I use USPS - but I use a Regional Rate A box which ships from south of Detroit to MTU for just under $7. The regional boxes are not available at the post office but you can order them online for free along with the address labels.
• Our post office in Petoskey has the regional boxes, just have to ask for them.
• Just sent my 2# 4 oz box priority mail non flat rate box (smaller than a shoe box) from A2 and it was $9.75
•  I use USPS. Usually it's the same price for 2-day priority as it is for regular.
• We sent a package yesterday through UPS. Never again. It was over $20.00. We didn't even send it next day or anything. It was a medium size rubbermaid container with some candy and stuff for Easter. USPS is the way to go.
• You should really look into the regional rate boxes. The rate B box is only slightly smaller than the flat rate box and can be used for up to 20 lbs - for a flat rate of $8.75. (Box C goes up to 25 lbs). These are just a cheaper priority box because the weight limit is lower.

Regional rate info

Order free regional rate boxes

To purchase postage, click here make an account and then do not select Flat Rate box, enter the weight, and thenhit the button "select a service type". You have to scroll down to see the regional box rates.

 

Mailing Food

• See the Birthday page for places that will deliver cakes, cookies and pies
•  I just sent cookies to my son in the package I just sent on Monday, he got his package this afternoon but didn't get a chance to open it yet because today is his busy day with classes. I put them in a small box, layered with parchment paper between since they were frosted and then put that in the bigger box that I sent. I have heard people saying you can send them in pringles containers as well. I've also sent homemade chex mix (one of my son's faves, lol) in a gallon ziplock bag, and then in the box. That did ok.
• Cookies go in a ziplock baggie, the unfrosted cake is wrapped in waxed paper then saran wrap. (cuz it's a weird shape). Bubble wrap any open spaces. I ship it USPS, send her the tracking number, and tell her the expected arrival date, as she doesn't check her mailbox regularly. 
• My sons roommate gets cookies in Pringle cans.

 

Gift Cards

Culvers

McDonalds

Taco Bell

Subway

Hardees

Biggby Coffee

Jimmy Johns

Applebees

Dominoes

Dairy Queen