Canadian Troops' Christmas packages arrive in wet garbage bags

Troops' Christmas packages arrive damaged

CBC News Posted: Dec 9, 2011 8:36 AM PT Last Updated: Dec 9, 2011 9:18 AM PT Read 118 comments118

A Victoria mother says it's going to be a blue Christmas for many soldiers in Afghanistan because their holiday packages from home are arriving damaged and destroyed.

Terrie Marchand says military officials sent letters to families in October urging them to send Christmas cards and parcels to their loved ones serving overseas.

So she and her family put together a package for her son, who is stationed at Camp Mike Spann in Afghanistan with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

But when it arrived, she was devastated to hear back from her son that most of the mail "arrived in sealed garbage bags filled with water, making the cards and letters unreadable and destroying the parcels."

"He got his Christmas parcel from this sister, a Christmas card from his sister-in-law… and he couldn't even read them. The parcel was so soaked right through the actual wrapping of the DVD right to the disc," she told CBC News.
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