District 9810 has been collecting used postage stamps since 1992. During the past 15 years over $40,000 has been generated for special programmes such as Polio Vaccine, Occular Implants in Nepal, De-Mining Cambodia, Rotarians against Malaria and purchase wheelchairs for crippled children in third-world countries
In 2007-08 funds raised through the sale of the used stamps is to be directed to the "Plumpy Nuts for Niger" project.
Point of contact and drop off for our area is to Carol Hedley Tel: 95871767 or email Carol Hedley
Some pointers to assist the collection and sorting process:
1. PLEASE leave the stamps on the envelopes - this enables faster sorting, also the required margin around the stamp is critical for selling purposes.
2. Foreign stamps, and Australian stamps 70c and above, fetch around $28.00 per kg.
If the above groups can be kept separate from the ordinary 50c stamps it would be of enormous help.
3. Australian 50c stamps fetch about $4.00 per kilo - on double paper (ie the full thickness of the envelope)
If you are going overseas to stay with friends - why not ask them to start saving stamps now - you could return with some valuable contributions to an excellent cause. Pen friends, Exchange Students, Group Study Exchange personel could all be encouraged to assist.
One man's trash IS another man's treasure!
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Thank you Helen for posting this item on RCMM's Blog.
A big thank you also to the members of the club that kindly collect stamps for us.
Please try and collect overseas stamps if possible. We get many times the amount of money for overseas stamps as we do for the Aussie stamps. Although all stamps are needed and most welcome.
Perhaps we could collect our Aussie stamps and swap them with stamps from our sister club in NZ? Maybe something for the club to consider.
When Philip went to the UK he brought back some English stamps which one of the Rotary Clubs he visited kindly collected for him.
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