Stamp Ministry @ Patchwork Designs Inc

GUIDELINES TO COLLECTING STAMPS FOR MISSIONARIES

Patchwork Designs Inc
14420 Round Lick Lane
Centreville, VA 20120

Phone: 703-222-0985
Fax: 703-543-8627

www.patchworkdesigns.net

You can also email your questions to:
orders@patchworkdesigns.net

$.90 per patch

Item # ST-0607

Patch goes on sale August 1, 2007

REQUIREMENTS

1. *If you are working on the postage stamp project as an individual then you will need to collect 25 stamps to earn the postage stamp patch. Average groups of 10 would need to collect 100 stamps. Larger groups would need to collect more stamps than 100. Ask parents or companies to collect the stamps for you at local businesses.

2. Please leave a border around the stamp of the background paper it was placed on.

3. No metered mail stamps are accepted, only actual stamps.

4. All designs are accepted especially Limited Edition, Christmas, Love, and Foreign stamps.

5. Throw away all stamps on deep colored paper, such as red, black, or green envelopes. The dye of the envelope seeps into the stamp image.

6. We can not accept torn or damaged stamps.

7. Please do not use rubber bands, paper clips or staples to send stamps. Simply place the stamps in an envelope or Ziploc bag for delivery.

8. We encourage that you send your stamps directly to Patchwork Designs, Inc. This way we can give the stamps directly to the people that trim, sort, and bag the stamps for the mission project.

9. You can mail your stamps to the Alliance Stamp Ministry or our office. ALL PATCHES HAVE TO BE ORDERED THROUGH OUR OFFICE.

Their address is:

Alliance Women Stamp Ministry
15000 Shell Point Blvd.
Ft. Myers, FL 33908

Some collect stamps according to the cancellation design. The Dr Seuss stamp has a special cancellation design and is a unique stamp. Each stamp does not have to have a special cancellation.

10. This is a great project for all participants and we appreciate your participation. Please note in order to receive the FREE postage stamp** patch you must send the stamps to our address. If you would like to purchase the stamp patch, then you may send your processed stamps to the Stamp Ministry. **Limited supplies available of FREE patches. First 500 participants will receive the patch, thereafter the patch is .90 cents per patch.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

1. What is the time frame for this project?

The time frame is year round. We collect them and send them to the facility as soon as they are completed.

2. Where can we mail the patches? .

You can mail them to us:

CLICK HERE FOR STAMP MINISTRY PATCH ORDER FORM.

Please mail them to the following address:: If you have any notes, cards or letters to send. You can address them to Dear Linda. She is handling this project and it would brighten her day to hear how you or your group enjoyed the experience.

Patchwork Designs, INC
ATTN: Linda
14420 Round Lick Lane
Centreville, VA 20120

You can also mail them to the above address, Alliance Ministry, but you will still need to order the patch through our office.

3. What if I include an order with my stamps?

PLEASE WRITE "ORDER ENCLOSED" on the outside of the envelope if you are ordering items than the stamp ministry patch. Otherwise the stamps go directly to the stamp processing department and your order will be given to the shipping department when the package is opened and processed.. If you order then you will only have to pay one shipping charge for your order and the postage patches.

3. What if there is no FREE patches available when we complete the project?

Before you order the stamp ministry patch check the top of this page for availibility of the patch. If there is no free patches available then the website will state "No free patches". This offer could be extended if additional funding is acquired for this department. This program starts AUG 2005, therefore around October 2005 there should be no FREE patches available.

Otherwise, we will have the patch available for sale for only .90 cents. We can not mail purchased patches to you if we do not have a credit card on file for you or you do not have a net 30 account. The easiest way to do this is to include a check for your purchase + shipping and handling or a credit card number in the envelope.

Please note if you have a credit card on file you can order at orders@patchworkdesigns.net anytime.

4. Does this project count as one of my blue angel projects?

Yes, this project is listed as one of the projects to complete this year.

5. How do they make money from these stamps?

The Women's Alliance Stamp Ministry sells them to stamp collectors across the world. Stamp collectors buy bundles or packets of stamps in hopes to getting a rare one. In that bundle there are several common stamps and a couple valuable stamps that they are looking for. The sale of these packets range from $6.00-$60.00 depending on the variety of stamps inside. When they receive a large amount of common stamps they trade or sell them to new collectors across the world, sometimes via net. Some people collect their stamps by DATE STAMP so it doesn't matter if they are all common. As you will note some of the cancellations have different characters or greetings stamped on them I have seen SHREK, greetings from far away, use a zip code etc. People collect those according to those cancellation patterns.

Thank you Linda for letting us know about this project.