WHAT USED STAMPS CAN DO
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This is a digitised version of an article from The Cayman Compass's print archive. Occasionally, the digitisation process introduces transcription errors, or other problems.
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The increased use of metered postage and the huge quantities of Christmas stamps being issued each year are making it more difficult for us to reach our goal (about $9,000.00 a year). During the past six years (1963 through 1968) we sold $54,240,91 worth of stamps, or an average of a little over $9,000.00 a year for six years in a row. This money has enabled Church World Service to send powdered milk to Malagasy; split beans to Burundi and India; paid for the transportation of 163,632 pounds of contributed high protein foods (valued at $57,000.00) to Hong Kong, the Congo, Malagasy and Malawi; paid for the transportation of $102,000.00 worth of contributed vegetable seeds to the Congo (so that the farmers in that ravaged country can grow their own crops). This fund has also delivered thousands of tons of U.S. Government Surplus Food to all parts of the world where there is an urgent need. The bulk of the funds are now being channeled by Church World Service for famine relief in Biafra, and they have just advised us that they are now in the process of shipping 50,000 cases of contributed, highly sweetened, evaporated milk (valued at more than $60,000.00) to that country and other undeveloped countries where there is an urgent need, without regard to race, creed or political affiliation. There is no limit to the number of large commemorativestamps, large and middle-sized foreign stamps, large Air Mail stamps, precancelled stamps of all denominations and sizes, special stamps of all kinds such as United Nations, duck stamps (hunting), the $1.00 Airlift stamp, small rare stamps, etc., that our buyers will accept. The decrease in the amount of Surplus Food available and the alarming increase in the amount of hunger in the world has caused us a great deal of concern.
It is said that over seventy-five per cent of the world's population goes to bed hungry at night." Anyone desiring to join in helping in this good cause can start saving all stamps -especially local, Jamaican and U.S. Tear the envelope leaving ¼" paper around the stamp and take them or send them to "Stamps" Box 167 which is the Caymanian Office. A hearty thanks to all those who are helping!
