You have to be careful with the postal zones. For example, Middletown, Valley Station and Pleasure Ridge Parks are all sixth class cities that used to be "distant" towns from Louisville, KY. Now they are simply suburbs and thus are still postal zone 0. I have to leave the county to get to postal zone one. So even though Middletown is 4 miles away and Clarksville, IN is around 10 miles, I can't send something from Middletown back home. I can cross the county line into Oldham County about three more miles from Middletown and it will be postal zone 1 or I can cross the river to Indiana and ship back home.
My pet project is Operation Christmas Child. It sends shoeboxes of toiletries and toys all over the world around October of each year. So I've started collecting items I would purchase anyway to put into shoeboxes later in the year and shipping them to a friend in Bowling Green, KY. I'll pick it all up when I visit her later and bring it home and do it all over again. I processed 687 shoeboxes full of stuff last Christmas and noticed that some people included hard candy and others did not. Soooo, I went to Walgreens and bought quite a few bags of hard candy (24 ounces) that slip easily into a bubble envelope and ship easily. I figure in October when it's time to stuff those boxes again, I'll have about 60 pounds of hard candy to include in them. lol And the cost is spread out throughout the year so I don't feel the pinch.
Today I Will Choose Joy!
"Finally, whatever things are good, true, noble, lovely, of good report...if there be any virtue, if there be any praise...think on these things." ....It's a command, not a suggestion!