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Read on to see the answers provided by the ThriftyFun community or ask a new question. I am clipping coupons to send to a military base. Where do I find an address to send them? By judy harrington from Kankakee, IL. Try doing a search on Google, or call a military recruiting office.
They might be able to give you a telephone number. Do a search on "coupons for troops" here on Thriftyfun and you should get a couple hits. This is where I got started. I currently send coupons to a family in Germany and they take out what they want and then share the rest with friends. Its an inexpensive way to help our troops and their families and you get to know some new people too. Okay, I did some searching and found an old post with the info you need. Ad Good luck. Here are a couple of links with info that should be helpful: It is live in the post where I copied it which is here on ThriftyFun http: You can also send an email to admin couponstotroops.
You can also check out www. I read that we can send coupons to our service men and women overseas. I definitely want to do that. I need the address, etc.
I am retired, so I have lots of time on my hands. There is actually a group you get in contact with and they match you up with a military family overseas. That family is part of a chain , after they go through the coupons they pass them on to other families on the base. I do it with a family in Austria. More info at this post http: Just send them an email at admin couponstotroops. Thanks to all on here who have shown their support and sent me their expired coupons!
I read somewhere that we can send our expired coupons to wives in the military. Does anyone know of an address where to mail them to? Overseas military bases will accept coupons up to 6 months after their expiration date. It takes several weeks for the coupons to be processed before they reach the hands of military personnel. Only manufacturer's coupons, no coupons that have been printed from the internet, and no 'in store' coupons.
Ad This website should have all the information you will need: Just the other day the Everyday Cheapskate newsletter had some information on this: Dear Mary, I heard that you can send expired coupons to military families because they still can use them on the base.
Do you know if this is true? If it is, how can we go about sending these coupons if we don't personally know a military family, but want to help? Lori W. Don't start sending willi-nilly. Only certain bases are set up to receive coupons. There's an organization run completely by volunteers, called the Overseas Coupon Program ocpnet. This website will give you all the information to adopt a specific military base that needs and wants your coupons.
It will tell you what to send, what not to send and how to send. Even the smallest donation of manufacturer's coupons will make a difference in the lives of many military families serving our country overseas. Just imagine if every EC reader jumped on board and adopted a military base. Together we could make a big impact!
Ad Some suggestions are checking with your local veterans organizations such VFW, American Legion, Marine Corps League or any service organization Lions Club, Rotary, Kiwanis, Moose Club, DAR, etc to see if they are currently running any coupon collecting projects where you can physically drop off the coupons to them. If you cannot find a project in your area, then you can talk to your friends and neighbors, co-workers, to see if they know of any military families stationed overseas who might want to be on the receiving end of coupons and you can mail directly to them.
Remember that it costs the same amount of money to send coupons directly overseas as it does to send to a local group, so if you're going to be mailing, you might as well just mail direct, otherwise the group doing the collecting is paying postage for a 2nd time for the same batch of coupons. They don't have a lot of manpower to sort through these coupons to distribute them properly, and most likely they'll just end up being recycled.
However, you can make it easy for them, and make it more likely they coupons will actually do the good you're hoping for, if you do the following:. Some people recommend sending the coupons directly to various overseas commissaries, but this program has become so popular that many of these commissaries, which don't have lots of extra manpower, have gotten rather overwhelmed with all the coupons they've received. Honestly, these days sending them directly to the commissaries is less likely for them to actually get used like you'd like.
A charity which helps as a middle-man for processing these coupons that I've come across is called "Support Our Troops. If you have specific questions about the packaging and sorting required to get your own donation ready this Facebook page is a great resource to look at. At least from my research it appears that this charity has the best ability, since they deal with so many of these coupons daily, to know exactly which commissaries need them the most, and to get them into the hands of military families who can really benefit from your generosity.
You learn something new every day, and with the popularity of this article I've been told by readers of additional places you can send these coupons, so I thought I'd pass along that information. Mariah says: They have a Facebook page, too. Great thing to do!
I found a link to their Facebook page , if you want to check it out. Russellville, IN Troopons SupportOurTroops. Org P. You can also send Troopons to: Box 70 Daytona Beach, FL Jump to.
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