Mailing Instructions & Wish List

I would LOVE to receive letters, cards, or packages [this gets extra love] from you! Please keep in mind that my mailbox is in Pemba City (3-4ish hours average chapa ride away) so it will take me awhile to receive it once it’s at the post office. Here’s my address:

Thanh Tam Thi Nguyen
C.P. 382
Cidade de Pemba- Cabo Delgado
Mozambique, Africa

Ao C/ Jose Carlos Samuel 
ou Wiwanana escritorio em Pemba

Tips & tricks for packages:

-You can send a package either by weight or the USPS has a Priority Mail international flat rate boxes. A small sized box up to 4lb is $24. A medium sized box is $60 and a large sized box is $80ish, both up to 20lbs. It’s expensive so you might want to try to find someone who loves me enough to pitch in! :)
-Don’t send anything perishable. It’s going to take a minimum of 3-4 weeks to get to me. Even letters will take this long.
-Don’t mark the value of the package too high to avoid expensive custom fees 
-For anything electronics or expensive looking, put it in a food box or disguise it if you can.
-Apparently the people at customs are less likely to open and/or steal packages if it looks religious. A lot of the PCVs here have packages arrived safely by doing so. You can pretend I’m a nun and write “Irmã Thanh Tam Thi Nguyen” and feel free to write/decorate the box with religious symbols/phrases

Things I'd love to receive (although anything would make me happy already!): 

-Starbucks VIAs
-Hot cheetos or hot fries
-Chocolate
-Candies
-Granola bars
-Powdered/liquid drink mixes (Mi0, crystal light)
-Multi-vitamins gummies
-Beef jerky
-Instant noodles/Fried noodles
-A long letter from you (hand written or typed :P)
-Arts and crafts stuff (felt fabrics, acrylic paints, ribbons, yarns, form stickers)
-Scented candles
-Photo prints
-Books or magazines