It Gets Worse....
So I finally get someone to run to the post office for me after addressing a box to a service member. Person comes back carrying the box, and a form. Apparently, in order to ship to the Fleet Post Office (not any particular ship mind you... but the FLEET Post Office, located INSIDE THE UNITED STATES) one must fill out a customer declaration form.
Besides necessitating yet another trip to the post office with yet another wait in line, you may ask what the POINT is to filling out such a lovely form. If I was a bad guy who wanted to do bad things to the fleet post office, I would just fill in "Nothing Dangerous Here" while stuffing the box full of naughty things and ship it on over. Or, I would just go there and do naughty things. Either way, a stupid customs form that does nothing but invade the privacy of both shipper and service personnel does nothing except annoy and cost more money to process more useless bits of paper.
I have no idea why I even bother to get surprised at the ridiculousness of any branch of the US Government.