The Project Mail Call Mission provides a direct and personal method to contact and send customized care-boxes and letters to U.S. soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen serving overseas. At regularly-scheduled packing sessions, volunteers pack boxes for military units based on the units' unique needs and requests.
Particular attention is given to service personnel who are in remote locations, do not receive mail, or who provide humanitarian aid to schools, clinics, orphanages or villages.
Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church featured Project Mail Call in their 2011 Memorial Day Patriotic Concert, showing a great video produced by the church's media department. Please click HERE to see the video.
The next general packing session with open space is 9 June at 9:30am sharp (reservations required). June 23 at 9:30am is also available.
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As of Mayl 2012, Project Mail Call has packed and mailed 4,244 boxes weighing 67,222 pounds. The boxes were mailed to 3,687 military units representing 110,289 military personnel in 28 countries and many ships at sea.
Specifically the countries are: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Columbia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, East Timor, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Haiti, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, South Korea, The Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Uganda, and the United Arab Emirates. Care-boxes have also been mailed to ships at sea in the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Red Sea.
Working out of Ed and Mary's basement in 205 packing sessions over six years, 4,035 people have now packed boxes, and 14,423 people have written letters of support for the troops, which were inserted in the boxes.
A diverse set of clubs, organizations, and groups have written letters and packed boxes to support our troops overseas. In addition to such packing sessions, 'general packing sessions' are also held to accommodate families and individuals who want to support our troops overseas.
The next available ‘general’ packing session is 9 June 2012, and then June 23 will be the next general session. If you or your family wish to participate in either of the next ‘general’ packing sessions, or if your group wants to schedule a private packing session, leave a comment on the Project Mail Call's Facebook Wall. Note however, that due to limitations of the Facebook Event function, we will also be using eVite.com for future event management processes.
If you would like to help support our U.S. Military and/or the Project Mail Call mission, please click on the following button:
For a moving tribute to the troops, click HERE
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Project Mail Call obtains military addresses from friends and relatives of military personnel serving overseas, military organizations, Operation Homefront Georgia, Operation Stars and Stripes, Mt Bethel United Methodist Church and other churches.
Project Mail Call also uses the AnySoldier.com® website to obtain soldier information and mailing addresses. However, due to Project Mail Call's size of operation, we are required to pay for these addresses.
Note that AnySoldier.com is a registered trademark of Any Soldier Inc.
