If you are already supporting a service member (or a number of service members) let us know about them by signing
them up to receive support from eMail Our Military as well!
If you have the mailing addresses for the service members you are supporting you can have a free calling card sent to them. Visit
http://www.operationuplink.org/request.cfm
Operation Uplink is a unique program that keeps military personnel and hospitalized veterans in touch with their families and loved ones by providing them with a free phone card. Using contributions from supporters like you, Operation Uplink purchases phone cards and distributes them to servicemen and women who are separated from those they care about. More information about Operation Uplink can be found at http://www.operationuplink.org/
Help Cool Our Troops
These personal misters make a great addition to any care
package you send. They're also great on their own. We've partnered with
Misty Mate to help you get great gear for our troops. Click the banner above
and send one to your service member.
Postcards Across America
Military service members stationed far from home love to see postcards
from our beautiful 50 states. You can send your local postcards to our
troops to give them snapshots across America. Write a personal message
of support, leave the address area blank and mail your postcard(s) to us
in a larger envelope. We’ll ship them to our troops in bulk
in our care packages. A little slice of home in every package, created
by you! Send your cards to us:
eMail Our Military
Postcard Project
8004 NW 154 Street, Suite 344
Miami Lakes, FL. 33016
Messages of Support
Would you like to support the service members who have requested support though eMail Our Military? If so, it couldn't be any easier! Just click here to send your personal email message of support to our troops. In turn, your email message may be emailed to our troops and or printed. Please consider sending at least one email message a week to go out in our weekly mail packages.
Please remember to keep your messages general so they can be sent to either male or female service members and do not list specific branches (such as writing “Dear Soldier”) as we support all branches of the Armed Forces.
Postal Proclamations
Make a Postal Proclamation by creating labels on your printer to let the world know with every piece of mail you
send that you are a proud member of eMail Our Military. Place them on your bills, your letters to friends and family and
basically anything that you mail. Mentioning our website address will ensure people will know where to find eMail Our
Military to sign up and support the troops!
Create your own or try some of our suggestions for your proclamations:
Just For Kids
Kids have the most creative ideas and these projects are fun for family night and class or school projects. Girls scouts, Brownies, Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts will also find these projects a treat and may even be able to earn a service badge. Don’t forget to take pictures of the kids creating these works of art. Include a copy with their artwork and we may use it on our site.
Items received will be shipped to our troops in our care packages. A
little slice of home in every package, created by kids with love!! All
items for the projects listed below should be placed in a larger
envelope or box and shipped to us directly
at:
eMail Our Military
Attn: Kids Projects
8004 NW 154 Street, Suite 344
Miami Lakes, FL. 33016
Kid Creations
Kids can make their own cards using construction paper or card stock
in various sizes and art supplies. This makes an excellent classroom or
art class project for students in elementary school. Try crayons,
markers and glue or consider stamping or using scrap booking items to create fantastic, unique, home-made cards.
See some examples on our
Flickr page.
Letter Writing Project
Letter writing is an excellent classroom project for students of
all ages. Sending correspondence is so much fun because you can write
letters the old fashioned way or create your own letterhead using your
computer. You can even insert photos & seasonal graphics into the body
of your letters. Keep all correspondence upbeat and
positive and begin letters with "Dear Service Member" rather than
specifying a branch. if you'd like a possible reply, include your return
mailing address and email address below your signature.
Tablecloth Banners
Take a vinyl table cloth and have kids write messages of support to the troops and sign their names. They can draw; add smiley faces and hearts too. Let them get creative. Adults will want to help with the banner’s title. We suggest something like “We Support You” or “We Love Our Troops”, etc.
Valentine's From The Heart
Kids can make their own Valentine's cards for our troops! Kids have the
greatest and most creative ideas. Try stamping or using scrap
booking items to create fantastic unique cards home made by you. Another
idea is to buy kid's packs of Valentine cards and let them fill them
out. Get your children's classrooms or schools involved. This is a great
class project and the student drawings and cards can be shipped to us
for distribution to our troops.
Holiday Love
Listen to the Holiday Love Promo click the player to begin
Each year we send holiday cards to our troops for Christmas and Hanukah. This
year's project will start October 15th and end December 11th to ensure that all cards and letters can be shipped to meet
the holiday deadlines. Mail your holiday cards for our troops to us and we’ll
ship them to our military in time for the holidays! As we get closer to the date
we'll include a
detailed Holiday Love flyer here.
DO's
Do include your return address on your package to us
Do place all your unsealed correspondence in a larger envelope or package
Do include your contact info if you wish to receive a reply
Do address your cards generally (like Dear Hero, Dear Service Member)
Do try to include "eMail Our Military" on all your correspondence
Do tell everyone you know and spread the word! The more the merrier.
DONT'S
Don't seal your correspondence
Don't put postage on your correspondence
Don't date your correspondence
Don't specify a branch (like Army, Navy, etc.)
Don't address your correspondence to a particular branch (like Dear soldier)
Postage Patriots
For every $5 payment we receive we'll ship one of our "Holiday Love" packages
stuffed with mail to our troops. Imagine the excitement our service members will
feel as they receive packages of holiday mail sponsored by you. To participate,
make your payment below and fill out the required information to sponsor a
package today! Our goal this year is to collect $2,000.00 to ship our holiday
mail to our troops. Become a postage patriot now.
Please Ship Holiday Mail And/Or Payments To:
eMail Our Military
Holiday Love
8004 NW 154 Street, Suite 344
Miami Lakes, FL 33016
Your packages must be received in our office by December 11th, 2008 to make
it to our troops by Christmas. You may sponsor shipments as a Postage Patriot ™
year round.
