<p>I received a test message from my Plebe son at 04:10 this morning that said "It's Happening". Recognition is underway. PLEBES NO MORE</p>
<p>Awesome! Hurray for 2011!!!!! Thanks KPDad. Cannot wait to hear about it</p>
<p>So from now on when we send mail we address it Mid instead of Plebe, I suppose.</p>
<p>Boy I KNOW that made my son's day!!!!</p>
<p>Our son also sent a message last night telling us it was going to happen! It seems just like yesterday they were going to indoc!</p>
<p>Does anyone know how long it lasts?</p>
<p>it finished around quarter to 6</p>
<p>MMaMom</p>
<p>I address mail:</p>
<p>Name, 2010</p>
<p>I think thats right.</p>
<p>They can use the title Midshipman or M/N for short now.
I do it because I figure he has earned it.
M/N (name) 2010 etc.</p>
<p>or you can just send mail like this
joe smith
po box XXX
300 Steamboat Rd
Kings Point, NY</p>
<p>There is nobody that checks the mail for titles, so you could write Supreme Midshipman Commander Smith on there if you wanted :)</p>
<p>one thing that bothers me....and I donno how much I can say it bothers me cause I'm not 100% sure about this...but i am about 99% sure about it..</p>
<p>Midshipman is abbreviated MIDN not M/N. You will find it done M/N here by kids all the time, but I remember a very high up officer once telling me MIDN and on the navy ship I was on it was MIDN....so...</p>
<p>Actually, I write out the word Midshipman. As I said they work very hard to earn the title and even harder to hang on to it. To tell you the truth we usually communicate by IM now anyway.I Just dropped him off at the airport. He is on his way to Sasebo, Japan to catch an MSC ship. I guess we won't hear from him at all for a while.</p>
<p>Do not write PO Box - only BOX - PO is for the Kings Point, NY post office. The Academy uses BOX only - and be sure to write USMMA.</p>
<p>Yup. No 'P.O. Box' on the address. My MIDN (Hey, I like typing that now), explained:
Our Mail guys stop by and pick up our packages/letters from the big drop box at the post office -- maybe once a day, maybe a few.. I dunno. When they get back to KP, they sort it out into the boxes WE use. There's not a Post Office employee that puts stuff in letterboxes. I haven't seen any of it, but this fits other stories I've heard.</p>
<p>I DO, however, always try to include the ZIP+4 number. Anything I can do to make it quicker to get up there, the better. (And I like the idea of going to the trouble of writing out 'Midshipman' xxxxx, Thanks KPmod) </p>
<p>Final format:</p>
<p>Midshipman Joe Blow -- 20XX
USMMA - Box# 123
300 STEAMBOAT RD
GREAT NECK NY 11024-1634 </p>
<p>Frankly, things have been pretty zippy about getting up there. I always tend to use USPS Priority (so, for just under $10, zoom). His cat is driving us up the wall... so we've threatened to poke holes in one of those boxes and send HER up.... (just kidding... except the part where it cat really IS getting on our nerves)</p>
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<p>Well you really could send the cat up there if you wanted to. It would have plenty of cat friends to roam around with outside.</p>
<p>Zonker, you have 11024-1634. I have 11024-1699 & our midshipman has received everything we have mailed. (doesn't it feel great! to type midshipman!) Our address came from the info we were sent before indoc for the class of 2011.</p>
<p>ya know, looking though that stuff, mine shows the same as yours.</p>
<p>The one I listed in my previous post was from [url=<a href="http://www.usps.com%5DUSPS">http://www.usps.com]USPS</a> - The United States Postal Service (U.S. Postal Service)<a href="postal%20service">/url</a>.</p>
<p>Gee. Dunno. maybe it makes little difference. Post office guys are probably wondering why we parents can't get our acts together ;)</p>
<p>I'm just glad they get there, quick.</p>
<p>Suez Canal</p>
<p>Don't like the sound of what's going on there. Do we have any Mids still at sea?</p>
<p>There are ALWAYS mids at sea. I read the report on this, it sounded just like what my son described when he went through it: civilian ships swarmed by small boats. It drove him nuts, and then the boat guys want to board the ships to sell stuff. The Panama is not like that. He goes through the Panama frequently now but only went through the Suez once during Sea Year--his ship did go through the Suez in the fall but he had already gotten off. It's pretty scary through that it's claimed that someone was killed, hopefully it won't provoke and international incident.</p>
<p>I believe the 2010 B splits are out now. The 2011 B leave in June. It's totally confusing who's out when, but I just remember that B = Before A :) and our 2011 A's leave end of October 08.</p>
<p>Yes, 2010 B splits are out now. My son just left for Japan. They should be back at KP in November</p>