Stamps for RSWR!

Save those Stamps! 

Do you still get “real mail” (also known as “snail mail”) with actual stamps on the envelopes? Maybe Christmas cards are finding their way to your mailbox? If so, don’t just chuck the envelopes in the recycling (or, please, not the trash!). Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) has an on-going Stamp Program which allows them to raise funds for their work & ministry!

Here in Wilmington Yearly Meeting, our own Nancy Bernard is serving as the local collection point — any stamps you get to her she will send on to RSWR! Contact Nancy at nbernard1@cinci.rr.com or (937) 382-8301.

History of the Stamp Program: Since 1996, the Quaker Missions Stamp Project has collected and sold used postage stamps and used the proceeds to fund Quaker organizations like RSWR. Brad Hathaway founded the project and was its steward until 2009, when Earl Walker took over the stamp ministry. From 2009-2017, Earl raised over $11,000 for Right Sharing through the Quaker Missions Stamp Project. In 2017, Indianapolis First Friends Meeting became the new home for the stamp ministry. Amy Perry and Brad Jackson are the current co-coordinators.

Guidelines from RSWR: The stamp program accepts stamps of all issue dates and countries, both used and unused stamps, sheets of stamps, albums, boxed collections of stamps, envelopes, and postcards.

Be sure to include your email address or phone number – this also allows us to acknowledge receipt of packages for those who request to be notified that we have received their package. Additionally we can contact you if we have questions, without incurring the expense of postage.

FLAG STAMPS ARE OK! This is a recent change in policy, confirmed by Megan Fair (WYM & RSWR): “The stamp team now accepts flag stamps. They have discovered a buyer of bulk packages of stamps, which I don’t believe they had before.”

Click here to download a pdf poster for RSWR’s Stamp Project — spread the word!