Advertisement This holiday season Operation Gratitude plans to send more than 70,000 care packages to troops deployed overseas and hopes to get enough submissions from the contest to include at least one letter in every box. To meet this goal, Operation Gratitude needs everyone — students, parents, teachers and all caring American citizens — to write letters.
To enter the contest, participants will go to http://dearhero.opgratitude.com and click on the “Write a Letter” button. Upon registration and submission of their letter, participants will be entered to win one of three prize packages, which include money for their chosen schools and gift cards provided by the Rogers Family Co.
A grand prize package will include $2,000 donated to the school of the winner’s choice, a $250 Rogers Family Coffee gift card and a $100 iTunes gift card. The winning letter will be included in Operation Gratitude’s milestone 400,000th care package in December.
The contest is open to all U.S. residents and runs through Dec. 12. All appropriate letters submitted in the contest will be sent to service members via Operation Gratitude care packages.
Troop package mailing deadlines set
The holiday mailing season to send cards and packages to military service members will begin Thursday, Nov. 13, with that date being the deadline for sending holiday packages to troops stationed overseas using parcel post to all Air/Army Post Office (APO) or Fleet Post Office (FPO) ZIP Codes.
For more information, call your local post office or log onto www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/localnews/in/in_2008_0916_DR.htm.
