Canadians writing to service personnel over the holiday season have set a record …sending four times the amount of mail sent in years past.
More than 400,000 holiday letters and cards flowed through the Canadian Forces Base Trenton post office in the “Write to the Troops” program.
The idea is that Canadians serving around the world during the Christmas holiday would receive a message from home, even if it was from a Canadian they don’t know.
Master Corporal Jordan Gibson tells Quinte News it has usually been about 80,000 letters in the past.
Gibson tells about one Canadian soldier serving in Latvia.
Gibson says it’s the most mail the six or seven workers in the CFB Trenton base has seen for Write to the Troops.
