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We will be in Windhoek on Jan. 3, 2009.

Here are our mailing addresses in Namibia. Trivia: Namibia has no residential mail delivery system. People and businesses have PO boxes.

Here are two ways to send us mail:

1. Our PO Box in Windhoek for anything (letters/packages/cookies/etc.). Contact us before sending anything really valuable. Stuff disappears from shipping to Africa every once and awhile. These packages/envelopes need to have international postage/air mail. Stuff should get to us in 7-10 days. So, more expensive than next option, but more flexible in terms of what kind of mail you can send.

Address to:
Larkin, Kelly, and Tristan Powell
PO Box 31072
Pionierspark
Windhoek
Namibia

2. Just Letters--no packages (even flat packages). Only first-class letter mail! Maximum of 1 pound. You can use US mail to send the letter to the Namibian Embassy near Washington DC. They will send it through the US State Department's diplomatic pouch to us in Namibia. We pick it up from the US Embassy there. They are VERY strict about the policy of ONLY first-class letter mail! A bit like the Soup Nazi on Seinfeld...we've been told. They will reject anything other than first-class letters. Benefits of this--it's cheap--just a US postage stamp. Gets there in a week or so.

Address (FIRST-CLASS LETTER ONLY) to:
Larkin Powell (do not use Kelly or Tristan's name--they only have Larkin's name on file)
2540 Windhoek Pl.
Dulles, VA 20189-2540