NASHUA — It may look like controlled chaos, but after five previous seasons of collecting, packing and shipping several thousand care packages to deployed troops around the world, MooreMart founder Paul Moore and his volunteers seemed Friday afternoon to have perfected the process.

Although Friday was a day off work or school for many, that didn’t prevent 100 volunteers from flooding the main hall of the National Guard Armory, ready to spread some holiday cheer to soldiers they’ve never met.

Packing for this year’s annual holiday care package drive began Thursday afternoon, with around 90 volunteers stopping by to lend a hand that first day, and continued through Friday evening.

Around 4 p.m. Friday, more than 2,000 care packages had been processed.

“We’ve been quite blessed this year: we’ve received far more items than we’d ever anticipated,” Moore said.

The project sent 3,211 care packages during the 2010 holiday season, and much like last year, helpers from all walks of life — from veterans groups to Girl and Boy Scouts — arrived ready to roll up their sleeves and get working.

“Our goal is to make sure everyone on our list gets a stocking,” Moore added.

Stockings are being shipped out today to all deployed military from the Granite State, as well as to another 1,800 soldiers from different parts of the country.

MooreMart also brings stockings to veterans living at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton and the Veterans Administration in Manchester.

Homeless veterans are likewise remembered, with packages being delivered to the Liberty House in Manchester and Buckingham Place in Nashua.

Three hundred are set aside to share with patients at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, Moore said, while any remaining packages are sent to the Army’s Morale, Welfare and Recreation division.

Bedford resident Coleen Richards, who works for Bedford Community Television, learned about MooreMart last summer, when Moore stopped by her studio to tape an informative program.

“I knew then that I had to get involved in this,” Richards said after arriving at the armory with her father, Andy Beaule, a Vietnam veteran and member of the local VFW.

“As soon as I told him about it, my dad, being a veteran, he just jumped right on board” she said.

Beaule said he even convinced his dentist to donate toothpaste and toothbrushes to include in the care packages.

At a nearby table, Manchester Girl Scout Troop mother Carolyn Durell looked on as her daughters Abbey, 10. and Zoe, 8, pored over a pile of handwritten cards and letters. Helping the girls out was their grandmother Regina Evans.

“This is a great service project for them,” Durell said, noting that many of the girls were working toward their Bronze Awards.

Tami Hoffman, a den leader for Cub Scout Pack 11 in Litchfield, said the project hits somewhat close to home for her group of eager helpers. One of the scout’s fathers is deployed in Afghanistan.

The sorting process is a painstaking one, Moore noted, since each package is created with its recipient in mind. That might mean packing cold-weather items like hand-warmers or hot chocolate powder for troops in Afghanistan, or hot-weather items like sunscreen for troops in Iraq.

In addition, volunteers had to be particularly careful not to pack scented soaps and other cosmetics too close to anything edible. “After a long time in a hot convoy, you don’t want everything to taste like Irish Spring,” Moore said.

Hudson volunteer Deb Luszey, a friend of the Moore family who’s been helping the cause for the past several years, said that toilet tissue, wet wipes, granola bars and yo-yos are among the items frequently requested by deployed troops.

“Children at home might want a stocking stuffed with candy, but these soldiers, they tend to appreciate a stocking with substance,” Luszey said.