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| Karrieann |
Posted - Mar 05 2010 : 12:36:14 PM
18 Feb 2012
Hi Gals,
I am bumping this up to remind those who have seen this before and to let others know that this is ongoing. Yes, I still collect these for the Shriner's Hospital, The hospital does not turn down the children in need of special help!
Thank you for your continued support!
~Karrieann
Hiya Gals,
I have recently been accepted into the Ladies's Oriental Shrine of North America (LOSNA). We are known as Lady Shriners. We help to raise funds for the Shriners Hospitals in Canada, USA and Mexico. We ladies also do what we can to provide gift bags for the children who come to stay in the hospitals. A few ways that we do to help raise monies is through collections of aluminum tabs off the soda pop cans and canceled postage stamps. The LOSNA gain funds for these and donates them to the Shriners Hospitals.
I am asking if you would mind help in this by cutting the canceled postage stamps and collect them into an envelope every once awhile, then mail them to me to donate.
There is no deadline. This is an on going project.
If you would like to participate, you may e-mail me for my address.
I know the out come with y'all will be great... so I thank you in advance! THANK YOU!!!!! :o)
~~Updated info: (06 March 2010) I was chatting with another gal who is also a member of LOSNA...longer than I, to get detailed information. I was mixed up about stamps in regard to "who" they went to. We still collect them, but we also collect the tabs of the pop cans ...and the front half of used greeting cards (all occasions and holidays)with no writings on it.
~~quoted from my friend of my e-mail:
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The Shriners Hospital benefits from the can tabs and some of the greeting card fronts.
The cancelled stamps are sent to the Boys & Girls Home in Omaha, Nebraska. They have a company that recycles them and withdraws the ink from the stamps and that money goes to the "home". It is like an orphanage and has been in business for many years. The Shriners hospital has a company that gives them 90 cents per pound for the can tabs, which is better than we can find anywhere else.
Do not peel off the stamps.. just cut around them, leaving the paper adhered to the stamp.
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| Karrieann |
Posted - Feb 18 2012 : 6:58:05 PM
Thank Y'all!
:)
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Feb 18 2012 : 6:41:17 PM
Glad you're still doing this Karrieann . . . I've been collecting stamps for you so I'll get some sent to you!
Thanks!
CJ
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| Blessed in Colorado |
Posted - Feb 18 2012 : 2:11:15 PM
Karrieann, I would love to do this too. I will start collecting today when the mail comes. What a fabulous cause, thanks so much for bringing this to my attention.
I get a lot of mail so would you please email me your address.
Thank you.
Hugs,
Deb
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| Karrieann |
Posted - Feb 18 2012 : 1:32:30 PM
Thank you Emily!
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| Emily Anna |
Posted - Feb 18 2012 : 1:23:55 PM
I am so glad you posted this. I have a bunch of envelopes I just put in the recycling bin. I'll start saving them for you, along with the cards and soda tabs.
Can you send me your address? Thanks!
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| Karrieann |
Posted - Feb 18 2012 : 1:09:05 PM
Thank you to those who continue to support me with this cause!
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| birdie71 |
Posted - Apr 13 2010 : 06:44:56 AM
I am glad to do this!
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| Karrieann |
Posted - Apr 13 2010 : 06:01:58 AM
:o)
CJ... got them yesterday!Thanks!!!!!!!
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Apr 12 2010 : 6:55:17 PM
Karrieann . . . I sent you some last week. I am collecting more for the next round!
CJ
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| Karrieann |
Posted - Apr 12 2010 : 6:19:59 PM
I sure did Nicole.. Thank you sooooo much. Forgive me for not informing you right away.. I been in a blah kinda mind! I do appreciate you! and everyone else!
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| texdane |
Posted - Apr 12 2010 : 6:08:13 PM
Karrieann, Did you get the envelope of stamps I sent you?
Nicole
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| Karrieann |
Posted - Apr 12 2010 : 10:41:36 AM
Thank you for those stamps! Each and every one is appreciated! There is no deadline to this collection.
Thank you y'all!
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| bdhughes77 |
Posted - Mar 11 2010 : 2:30:07 PM
I'm guessing these stamps are sold to stamp dealers who sort and resell them to collectors. I used to collect stamps and I started with buying a bag of canceled stamps, cut from the envelope, for a few dollars. I still have a bunch on paper yet so when I locate them I'll send for your address!
Debbie
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| RaspberryBee |
Posted - Mar 08 2010 : 08:34:15 AM
Just a thought here...you might want to post this on the Lost Art of Letter Writing. There is a lot of mail exchanged there so that means lots of stamps :-)
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| mscountrygirl |
Posted - Mar 08 2010 : 07:02:24 AM
I will keep this in mind. When I get some collected I will contact you.
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| JojoNH |
Posted - Mar 08 2010 : 04:33:22 AM
Thank you for the update!! I am busy collecting the stamps and will get those off to you maybe by the end of the week.
Joanna #566
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Mar 07 2010 : 8:26:52 PM
Karrieann,
I'll send ya' some too . . . as I get a handful.
And, I have your address . . :)
CJ
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| classygram |
Posted - Mar 07 2010 : 08:00:22 AM
Karrieann I just sent a email.
Brenda
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| Karrieann |
Posted - Mar 06 2010 : 09:47:16 AM
The generosity is heart warming! Thank you!!!
:o)
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| knitnpickinatune |
Posted - Mar 06 2010 : 09:10:49 AM
requested your snail mail addy-if I process mail in payments at my part time job,I'll bring the stamps home!
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| Karrieann |
Posted - Mar 05 2010 : 8:05:05 PM
.. foreign stamps are good too.
I will answer the questions above soon. I am looking for the answers!
:o)
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| prairie_princess |
Posted - Mar 05 2010 : 5:37:22 PM
i'm interested, too!
can you accept foreign stamps? i wish i'd known about this before... i receive some packages from other countries through e-bay or amazon and wished i'd known someone to give the stamps to. so let me know if you can accept foreign stamps.
if i collect enough outdated stamps, i'll e-mail you as well. along with any pop tabs i may come across!
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| texdane |
Posted - Mar 05 2010 : 5:04:43 PM
Karrieann,
Email me your address and I will do it, too. But I am dying to know too, what do they do with them?
Nicole
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| Old Spirit |
Posted - Mar 05 2010 : 4:22:49 PM
Karieann just remind me in your letters and I will send some your way also!!
Rae
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| JojoNH |
Posted - Mar 05 2010 : 4:02:13 PM
I will help too! I am curious, how do you raise money from canceled stamps??  Drop me an email with your address so I can start sending to you!
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