WHITEFIELD, N.H. — A New Hampshire veteran who works in a post office paid out of his own pocket for a woman’s care package to troops overseas.

Christina Morancie and her co-workers at Littleton Regional Hospital had collected two large boxes of food and other items for a package bound for her stepson’s New Hampshire National Guard unit in Afghanistan.

WMUR-TV reports Gardner Chamberlain, a Navy veteran who works at the post office in Whitfield, paid the $60 postage to send the package.

“He just looked at me and he said, ‘You are all set,’ and I said, ‘What do you mean?’ and he said, ‘We’re here and they are over there,’” Morancie said.

Chamberlain, who served in Vietnam, said this is his way of giving back, and it’s something he’s done before.

“She got all her friends to bake and cook. I don’t bake. I don’t cook so, I did the other part, that’s all,” Chamberlain said.

He said he knows how important care packages can be when home seems so far away.

“Those guys are going through a rough deal and they don’t know from minute to minute so this is one way to reach out and grab them and say, ‘Thank you,’” Chamberlain said.