Used Stamp Collections Needed for Veterans

ALA Unit 18 is partnering with Stamps for the Wounded. Drop them off at the Burton Woolery Post 18 and then ALA Unit 18 will send them off to Stamps for the Wounded. If you cannot get to the Post, then contact Jenny Tracy [email protected] to coordinate a pick up.

Stampsfor theWounded (SFTW) is a service organization dedicated to providing comfort and stimulating activity toU.S.veterans throughstampcollecting. SFTW sends donated postagestampsand other philatelic material and supplies towounded,ill, and isolated veterans. SFTW has been helping veterans since 1942.

One way that you can help our veterans is to save / gather envelopes from the mail coming to your home, business, fraternal or volunteer organization, neighborhood, etc. You can then clipmostof the postage stamps from the envelopes and send them to SFTW. We will send them to veterans to sort, soak and arrange for their own collections.

Stamps that can be collected are:

Postage stamps, whether they are on paper or off paper.

Postage stamps from the USA or from any other country in the world.

Computer-generated postage labels.

Postal stationary : envelopes with pre-printed stamps; postal cards with a pre-printed stamp; aerogrammes. These should not be clipped, they are more collectible as entire pieces.

How to Clip Stamps

Carefully clip, or tear the paper around outer edges of the perforations around the stamp. Do not clip off the perforations this ruins the stamp. Please leave at least 1/4 of margin around the outside edges of the performations of the stamp which makes it easier to soak the stamp from the envelope.

If clipping from an envelope corner, remove the back and side flaps.

Please do not try to steam, soak, pull or peel the stamps off the paper. Our veterans will do this, as part of the fun work of stamp collecting.

Please do not cut stamps from older envelopes (pre-1941) or from more modern envelopes if they have special markings, such as First Day of Issue cancellations, very interesting cancellations, routing markings or Postage Due notations, etc.

Postal stationary (postal cards, stamped envelopes, aerogrammes) should not be clipped.

Picture postcards should not be clipped. Postcards without stamps are also acceptable to send.

If you are in doubt about whether to clip the stamp from the envelope, please dont. Send us the entire envelope and well sort it.

THIS EFFORT ALLOWS VETERANS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REHABILIATE, NETWORK, AND SOCIALZE.