4,500 U.S. Troops to Receive Free Postcards from Postcardmania and USO

Corresponding with loved ones has always been very important to any soldier who is deployed during wartime. Being able to communicate with parents, siblings, friends, and lovers boosts morale and brings everyone a little bit of joy during a bad situation. Thanks to Postcardmania.com there will be 18,000 more opportunities for soldiers in Iraq to write to their loved ones.

In a July 9 press release, Postcardmania.com has announced that they will be donating 18,000 postcards to soldiers at Ft. Stewart in Hinesville, Georgia and Hunter Army Airfield Georgia, right outside of Savannah. There are approximately 4,500 soldiers that are scheduled to deploy from this base in August. Each soldier will get a postcard to write one last letter home before they leave and have a few extras to take with them to Iraq.

This project is the result of a partnership between Postcardmania.com's pro bono program and the United Service Organization of Georgia in Savannah (USO). Postcardmania's CEO and owner, Joy Gendusa, established the pro bono program in 1998. In order to qualify, a program has to be dedicated to helping mankind and making the world a better place. This request by the USO more than qualified and they are very grateful for the opportunity to be able to help soldiers.

"I think it's important that businesses show their support for our troops. They are over there, away from home, for us, and it feels great to be able to give a little back," said Gendusa when asked why she decided to contribute to this project in a press release.

Upon receiving the postcards, USO volunteer Paulette Nelson said this: "I wanted to say thank you...I am truly overwhelmed, humbled and grateful by your generosity. These cards will serve as more than a simple piece of correspondence. They will be a link between a family and their loved ones so far away."

The postcards come in three patriotic designs and the USO will be in charge of dispersing them. The USO has been working for 65 years to do anything they can to boost the morale of the troops and assist the families involved. They go wherever they are called and do whatever they can do.

Postcardmania.com first participated in helping the troops last year by donating 50,000 postcards so that area residents of Tampa, Florida, could write Christmas messages to the troops in Iraq. At the time, volunteers had to run out to dollar stores to find enough postcards to fulfill the need. That is when Postcardmania came into the picture and helped.

USO Volunteer Paulette Nelson said this about last year's postcards. "When they were finished they thanked us. They said they actually felt better. I could see the tension lifted off them. Their burden of leaving was a little lighter now. That was indeed the best gift I could have ever given them."

SOURCES:

24-7 Press Release. URL: (http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rID=30638)
Postcardmania.com Press Release. URL: (http://www.postcardmania.com/pr/y2007/pr_070607.php)