The Tea Party has percolated...

As was recommended by another poster, I used the Adagio tea website. I sent the English Breakfast sampler to Bernanke and then sent a duplicate order (for which they gave me 10% off) to King George W.

woo hoooo!

a box of English Tea to Bernanke & a box to the White House.

...it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen to set brush fires in people's minds..." -- Samuel Adams

I got an email from my Senator in response to my complaints about HR 1955. He basically said we need to keep America secure but he will "keep my concerns in mind." And to that response I will send him tea.

Wouldn't they all be on vacation anyway?

First of all, doubtful anyone will be in Washington to open any of these letters.
Secondly, as I posted before, the odds of some nut job sabotaging the entire effort are high. It would take just one idiot claiming to be a supporter to paint the entire group in a bad light, put a damper one the TEA PARTY MONEY RAISE IN GENERAL, and circumvent all the efforts made year to date.
perhaps an idea worth considering is handing out tea bags to fellow citizens in mass along with Ron Paul campaign literature. This may have the possibility of
not only getting national and local exposure as well as maybe a few extra dollars being raised. Just my two cents.

I have read this thread and completely agree that the potential for blowback from sending packages of tea exists. Having somebody hijack this idea by sending something else would be terrible. HOWEVER...

What if we utilized Adagio Teas (http://www.adagio.com/) to have tea sent as a gift to Bernake? This way the tea comes from a legitimate company, and can have a gift card that reads something like, "I don't want your inflation tax. I'm voting for Ron Paul."

Not only would this eliminate the possible blowback, but we might also intrigue another company into supporting the good doctor as well.

My personal opinion is to limit the tea to just Bernake, and only have it shipped from one established company (not individuals or multiple companies). It can be any established company, I just mentioned Adagio, because I know friends that have purchased from them before.

That's my two cents worth (hmmm wouldn't that be the value of a fed note?)

EDIT: corrected a couple spelling errors.

This is a terrible idea. Please don't do this.

I think the best ways to asway fears of terrorism are:
1. Make sure you tell the Post Office you're sending tea
2. Include your return address on the package (packages without return labels are more suspicious)
3. Make sure the tea package is in the original shrink wrap from the store.

If we send tea to D.C. I don't want the message to simply be, "we're fed up and we want change," I want the message to be, "We want Ron Paul to be our next president!"
Someone wrote, that this should let other voters know that they aren't alone in their disappointment with government, and I like that.
Some other ideas I had, if we send tea just to Bernanke it means we're fed up with the Federal Reserve's inflation tax and we want it to go.
Another idea would be to send the tea only to GOP members of the House and Senate, and top GOP party leaders, to mean that we want Ron Paul to be the GOP presidential nominee.

Any other thoughts/ideas?

There are already people getting started doing this. I heard arguments along these very same lines before the "Guy Fawkes" Nov 5th drive over the date and the historical reference. People argued over this stuff for days, and when it was done quite a few people were eating crow.

When are you going to realize that if we don't go all-in and take risks Ron Paul will not be president. If we weren't willing to take a risk, Nov 5th may not have happened.

This is something that we should do, and the best case scenario is that it is mentioned in the media several times, and that it lets other voters know that they aren't alone in their disappointment with government.