Since we want to make this a great train ride for all involved, there will be a few important guidelines to make it a success.
1. Communication is very important. Please post on this thread when you send your envelope to your receiver. If you must send it late, if you are sick, if you forget it's Monday, etc. just let your receiver know. Please post when you receive your envelope from your sender as well.
2. Please always mail your envelope on Mondays if at all possible. That way your receiver should get it by Thurs. or Friday at the latest and it gives you the opportunity to cut out and include coupons from Sunday's coupon inserts.
3. Be sure to check expiration dates on all coupons and don't send any that expire within ten days or your receiver won't have enough time to use them. (I have the address of a military family who can use expired coupons {up to 6 mo.} on their base. If you're interested in saving your expired coupons for her, I can PM you her address.)
4. If you have any special requests for coupons, PM me and I can start compiling a wish list. You can send coupons off the wish list as extra envelopes, but please remember your primary focus and responsibility is to send to your assigned person first. Just PM me for the wish list person's address to send her wish list coupons.
5. A 42 cent stamp will probably not be sufficient postage depending on how many coupons you send in your envelope. If in doubt, please take it to the post office and have it weighed so it does not arrive postage due.
6. We may have to occasionally shuffle the order of the train when new riders join us, when riders depart from the train, etc. There might also be an occasional down week when sending coupons that week is optional. It will usually happen after a holiday when there are no or few coupon inserts in the newspaper. For example, after Thanksgiving we'll skip sending out on Dec. 1.
If there are any questions, concerns, or problems that arise, please let me know so we can give some answers and helpful ideas or work out solutions to any problems.