Holiday Cards to Wounded and Recovering Soldiers

Walter Reed Army Medical Center ^

[SoldierMedic]

Walter Reed Army Medical Center cannot accept packages, letters, and holiday cards addressed to 'Any Wounded Soldier' or 'A Recovering American Soldier'. The U.S. Postal Service is no longer accepting "Any Service Member" or "A Recovering American Soldier" letters or packages. Mail to "Any Service Member" that is deposited into a collection box will not be delivered.

However, through a unique partnership between the American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes Inc., communities across America are invited to mail cards along with personal messages of support to wounded service members at military hospitals around the country.

With the support of the U.S. Department of Defense and Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and with help from Pitney Bowes Government Solutions, the American Red Cross will collect, review and distribute holiday greeting cards to wounded military personnel. For security reasons, the Red Cross will be able to accept only holiday cards but not packages. Red Cross volunteers will receive and bundle the cards, which will be shipped by Pitney Bowes Government Solutions. Then, Red Cross volunteers at the medical facilities will distribute the cards throughout the holiday season.

Please address your holiday cards to:

We Support You During Your Recovery! c/o American Red Cross P.O. Box 419 Savage, MD 20763-0419

[SoldierMedic]

The address got all jacked up.

We Support You During Your Recovery!
c/o American Red Cross
P.O. Box 419
Savage, MD20763-0419

[Always Right]

What is this Holiday Season everyone is talking about?

[PleaDeal]

Thanks for posting this info!!! Lots of folks would like to send Christmas greetings to our beloved wounded warriors and don’t know what to do.

[PleaDeal]

Walter Reed Ping!

[bmwcyle]

bttt

[RDTF]

thanks! I’m going to buy a box today and send them all.

[ArrogantBustard]

I don’t know ... I hope they won’t get all hacked off if I wish them a Merry Christmas.

[Always Right]

I don’t know ... I hope they won’t get all hacked off if I wish them a Merry Christmas.

It is a sad day when Merry Christmas is considered a form of hate speech.

[surrey]

One day too late. I just sent a card to “A Recovering Soldier” yesterday

[SoldierMedic]

Maybe not. Aides to Sen Sessions offered to inspect the mail, so it may have been divereted to them, and eventually reach a wounded soldier.

[Doctor Raoul]

These people probably have the facilities to handle the task. Good for them, they’re great.

[nina0113]

A friend of mine gave the kids at her school the chance to make cards for me to send to a unit in Afghanistan - they did over 200, which I shipped out along with Christmas goodies on Dec. 2.

[SoldierMedic]

Good for you!

[Holding Our Breath]

Or, you could go to www.operationpinecone.com and see what you could donate any time of the year thruogh this organization. We, at KnowledgePoints Tutoring, are a pick up site in South Riding, Virginia.

[Froufrou]

I dunno...I’ve been having trouble sending something to a young man in the same city where I live. I can’t seem to get the wording right.

He was married on Nov. 20 and I wanted to give them something, but I every time I try to convey my well wishes it goes awry.

[LucyJo]

Is there someone to contact there who can straighten out the problem? I was planning to mail a card to him and his new wife today, but don’t want it getting “lost” in the mail.

[Froufrou]

Thanks for that insight!

[Albion Wilde]

Folks -- you can help the volunteers by leaving your card flaps unsealed, so the message inside can be reviewed by the volunteers.

The object for them is to avoid having the leftie sickos sending "I hope you die" messages, as they have on past holidays.

I know. Sick.

[JoyjoyfromNJ]

Thanks for posting this! I’ll see what I can get out this weekend.