Djibouti - Post Report Question and Answers

What household or grocery items do you wish you had shipped to post?

Favorite sauces/marinades/dressings. Everything else will generally come via mail or be available locally. This is a consumables post, so you can ship oil/flour/canned goods/etc. in bulk. - May 2022


Nothing. - Sep 2020


You should ship cleaning supplies, but you have DPO so you can get anything shipped to you. I would recommend buying a Weber or similar grill. You'll use it quite often. - Apr 2018


Nothing in particular. Djibouti is a consumables post, though, so take advantage of that. - Jun 2016


Dive gear and sun screen. Big hats. Synthetic oil for oil changes. - Aug 2015


Nothing. - Feb 2013


The following items are not available or are so rare you'll never find them when you need them: chocolate chips, vanilla extract, crisco, pie fillings. Many people order from amazon and netgrocer. - Apr 2010


More toilet paper and laundry soap. The brands of toilet paper available in Djiboutian stores just were not the same.... and the laundry soap was outrageously expensive. Also more American snack foods. Things like Cheezits and Wheat Thins were NOT available in the local grocery stores and the military NEX was so small, they did not usually have these. Other fun snack foods were available. You could get Japanese snack mix, for example, with sesame crackers and wasabi peas. Go figure. And French snack foods. But sometimes, I just wanted Cheezits. - Aug 2008


Jet Ski. - Apr 2008


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