Win a Romantic Getaway Thanks to the U.S. Postal Service

If you want to be able to fund that romantic getaway on someone else's dollar--$10,000 worth, enter the United States Postal Service's "Guess and Win Sweepstakes." According to a flier I picked up at my neighborhood post office, all you have to do is guess the number of Hershey®'s Kisses® that will fit into a Postal Service Priority Flat Rate Box by February 15, the day the contest ends.

How big is that size box you wonder? 11-7/8 inches by 3-3/8 inches by 13-5/8 inches. If you happen to buy kisses and put them in the box to help you with your guessing, you can mail them anywhere in the U.S. for $8.10. That's the idea behind the flat rate box. Not to get people to mail chocolate, but to get people to mail this size package.

Let's say you are the lucky winner of this $10,000. You get to choose where you want to go for romance. If you have no idea where that might be, or want to try some place you haven't thought of before, I found this list on AskMen.com. Reasons for each choice are listed by writer Harry Marks.

10. Turkey
9. Malta
8. Vienna Austria
7. Algarve, Portugal
6. Paris, France
5. Argentina
4. Greek Islands
3. Venice, Italy
2. Casablanca, Morocco
1. Bora Bora, French Polynesia.

My pick? I would choose Malta because I never would have thought of it and because it sounds like a place that's intimate, historical and lovely. Turkey, though, is a close second. How many places could you go on a $10,000? It seems like if you did the budget travel version, you could hit 8 of them, including Malta on a few weeks trip.

You can enter the contest on-line and, if you don't win the $10,000, you might be one of the 100 people to win a Valentine -themed bear.

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