cards for soliders

aishah · 05-04-2012, 05:09 PM

http://adoptaussoldier.org is a great organization through which you can adopt active duty deployed soldiers to write letters and if you want, send packages (and they give recent, updated addresses). i used to volunteer for them.

soldier's angels is another great organization, though they require that you make a commitment of sending packages as well as letters on a regular basis.

anysoldier.org is a great site but it's more for adopting entire groups of soldiers and also tends to emphasize packages (though some soldiers just ask for letters).

unforunately you cannot mail cards to "any soldier," and as far as i know that goes for deployed soldiers as well as soldiers recovering at walter reed. you MUST have a particular name. in the case of sites like anysoldier.org, the package or letter is addressed to the leader of the group of soldiers who will then distribute them to any soldier in the group.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/christmas/walterreed.asp

if you're not interested in doing this on a regular basis and just want to do something nice as a one-off thing, cup of joe for a joe is a great program to buy coffee for soldiers and you can include a note/e-card with the coffee. sometimes you get responses back.
http://www.greenbeanscoffee.com/coj/

chai~ · 05-04-2012, 05:13 PM

thank you so much for the info, I appreciate it!

aishah · 05-04-2012, 05:15 PM

no problem! the rules about military mail and soldier adoption can be kind of confusing, and some of the programs are reputable and some not so reputable, so i'm happy to be able to help.

05-04-2012, 05:09 PM	#1
aishah Member How Do You Identify?: queer stone femme shark baby girl Preferred Pronoun?: she, her, little one Relationship Status: dating myself. Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: dallas, tx Posts: 1,495 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,823 Thanked 6,442 Times in 1,288 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	http://adoptaussoldier.org is a great organization through which you can adopt active duty deployed soldiers to write letters and if you want, send packages (and they give recent, updated addresses). i used to volunteer for them. soldier's angels is another great organization, though they require that you make a commitment of sending packages as well as letters on a regular basis. anysoldier.org is a great site but it's more for adopting entire groups of soldiers and also tends to emphasize packages (though some soldiers just ask for letters). unforunately you cannot mail cards to "any soldier," and as far as i know that goes for deployed soldiers as well as soldiers recovering at walter reed. you MUST have a particular name. in the case of sites like anysoldier.org, the package or letter is addressed to the leader of the group of soldiers who will then distribute them to any soldier in the group. http://www.snopes.com/politics/christmas/walterreed.asp if you're not interested in doing this on a regular basis and just want to do something nice as a one-off thing, cup of joe for a joe is a great program to buy coffee for soldiers and you can include a note/e-card with the coffee. sometimes you get responses back. http://www.greenbeanscoffee.com/coj/

05-04-2012, 05:13 PM	#2
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aishah Member How Do You Identify?: queer stone femme shark baby girl Preferred Pronoun?: she, her, little one Relationship Status: dating myself. Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: dallas, tx Posts: 1,495 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,823 Thanked 6,442 Times in 1,288 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	no problem! the rules about military mail and soldier adoption can be kind of confusing, and some of the programs are reputable and some not so reputable, so i'm happy to be able to help.