GrocerySavingTips.com Military Family Coupon Project
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WHAT to DO and WHERE to SEND EXPIRED GROCERY COUPONS!!!
HOW
to Send Them
Stop tossing those expired grocery
coupons in the trash! Our U.S. military families stationed overseas are able to use them
on base for up to SIX MONTHS after the manufacturer's expiration date!
Help us keep our list of participating bases up to date. If you know of a
base that needs to be added or removed from our list please contact us with their current mailing
information--we update our mailing list every month!
When sending your expired grocery coupons keep in mind the time it takes to mail your coupons internationally--usually many weeks--so do try to get them sent off
quickly. Of course if you know a military family personally you should
probably send your coupons directly to them--if you do not you are welcome to
send them to the bases we list on our site. When the coupons are received
someone at the base will either distribute the coupon donations to needy families or place them
in an area where they can be picked up by families at the PX or Commissary. (Note:
They can only accept regular
manufacturer's coupons like from the newspaper inserts--no special "in store" coupons or
Internet printed coupons--in some cases they may be able to use Internet coupons
but they will be able to print them on their own. A few of our military families have also asked us to pass along this request, if you
have time, it's also very helpful to separate
the coupons into two categories, one for FOOD and one for NON-FOOD, then place them in
plastic bags. This will help them with sorting for the families when they arrive at the base.)
As our list is widely viewed by many readers and
bases are sometimes "adopted" by community groups, you may receive a
letter from the base stating that they now have enough coupons and do not need
any more help. If this happens just let me know and I will remove them from our list.
(Or, if you are a base and you have accidentally been removed from our list and
want back on please contact us right away so your families can start
receiving coupons from our readers again!)
GrocerySavingTips.com maintains our base address list
on a monthly basis, unlike other coupon address lists you may find on the
Internet that may or may not be current. If you have any additional info or bases that we
should ADD or REMOVE please contact michelle@grocerysavingtips.com
-- include the country and mailing address in the format as we have listed below
if you can. If you can't, don't worry, we will figure it out! If you don't have a military family member overseas, maybe you know someone who
does? Please have them contact us if they would like their base to be
added to our mailing list! :o)
Thank You for Helping Us
With Our Military Family Coupon Project!
Addressing your package... The post office may
request a specific contact name when you go to mail your coupons. Just explain to
them that we cannot maintain a list of personal contact names because they
CHANGE constantly and that we are a volunteer group donating grocery coupons to
help our military families stationed overseas. The postal worker can also open
and inspect the package if that will help and verify that the contents are grocery coupons being sent to our U.S. commissaries overseas. Addressing the
package directly to the Commissary or "Family Services" should also
help.
Also, the USPS requests, "Do not
include the country or the base camp's city, as it might be routed through the
host country's mail system." We have include this extra information in our address list
below so you will know where they are located, but when you mail your
envelopes you will address them like this...
Family
Services (or Information We Have Listed)
Unit Number,
Box Number
APO AE 00000
Note: The APO/FPO is used for the "City"
and AA/AE/AP is the "State"
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In addition... we would like to
suggest that you contact the base first if you are sending a large
amount of coupons as a group to make sure they are still accepting
coupons. Their circumstances can change on a monthly basis and we are
doing the best we can to keep our mailing list current for everyone.
The letters we
receive from some of the families who are benefiting from these coupons are
wonderful, they truly do appreciate your help!!! So if you have a pile of
expired grocery coupons just pick an address and
get them off in the mail to our military families who can use them! :o)
U.S.
Air Force:
This military base address list is
CURRENT and managed by www.GrocerySavingTips.com,
please check back with us for updates before mailing your expired
grocery coupons. We update our list every month. Anyone who
copies this list and moves it off this page is doing all of us a disservice.
Copies that are on the web and elsewhere will become out of date very
quickly! Thank you
for your support! :o)
Families, Clubs and Organizations who
would like to "adopt" a base... PLEASE do not only pick one
group to send your coupons to. Check back with us each month, or
whenever you are ready to mail the expired coupons, and choose a
different base that you have not recently sent coupons to. If
everyone will do this, the coupons will be well distributed instead of
overwhelming... which eventually leads to complete rejection.
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Ramstein, Germany
Ramstein Air Base
Attn: Family Services
Bldg. 1200, Flugplatz Ramstein
APO AE 09094 Germany
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Alconbury, UK
RAF Alconbury
ATTN: Family Services
423 ABS/DPF
APO AE 09470
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Bury-ST Edmunds, UK
Mr. Hugh Henry-Pierre
USAF Family Support Center
100 MSS / DPF, Unit 49/25
APO AE 09459
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Incirlik, Turkey
Coupon Program A&FRC
39FSS/FSFR
Unit 7505, Box 175
APO AE 09824
February
2010: From
the Incirlik base... "Michelle, Thank you so much for putting our base
on your coupon list. Yes we take any and all coupons that you have. I’m
currently the one and only coupon volunteer on base and I LOVE IT!! I
started back in October as I use coupons myself, the Family Center didn’t
have anyone helping with their program, so I started it. To say the least it
has been a great success, in part with your help getting us coupons. In fact
this month (February) is military saves month and I am doing a coupon saving
contest with 2 winners (one for the most saved and one for the most % saved)
the interest has been tremendous. I just want to Thank you for help getting
the information out and look forward to any and all contributions to our
program. Thanks again!" couponladydarlene @ gmail.com
June
2010: From the base... "Thanks to all of you for making our program
here at Incirlik, AFB, Turkey a great success. Since I've been on vacation
in the states for over a month...our coupon supply is overwhelming. Please
hold off on any more coupons until August or Sept., it will take me probably
that long to get through all of these. Thanks again and we look forward
to more coupons."
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Yokota, Japan
Airman and Family
Readiness Center
Unit 5123
(Please use one of the
following addresses for this base.)
Fleet and Family Support
Center
PSC 473 Box 116
FPO AP 96349-0116
or
Commissary Store
PSC 473 Box 33
FPO AP 96349-0033
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Okinawa, Japan
Airman and Family
Readiness Center
Unit 5134 Box 80
18 FSS/FSFR
APO AP 96368-5134
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Guam
Airman and Family
Readiness Center
36 MSS/DPF
Unit 14001, Box 17
APO AP 96543
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U.S. Army:
Vogelweh, Germany
Vogelweh Commissary
DeCA/EU-VOG
Unit 3063
APO AE 09021
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Mannheim, Germany
Army Community Service
Unit 29901 Box 25
Bldg. 253
APO AE 09086-9901
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Stuttgart, Germany
Army Community Service
Unit 30401
APO AE 09107
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Vilseck, Germany
Army Community Service
Unit 28130
Bldg. 244
APO AE 09114
June 2010:
From one of our members... "We recently received a thank you note
(dated April 2010) from Michele Wolff who handles the coupon program at Vilseck,
Germany. They seem very happy to get our coupons. - Lynne B."
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Bamberg, Germany
USAG Bamberg
IMEU-BAM-MWR-ACS
Army Emergency Relief Manager
CMR 459
APO AE 09139
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Illesheim, Germany
Army Community Service
CMR 416
Bldg. 6510
APO AE 09140
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Lakenheath, UK
Airman and Family
Readiness Center
48 FSS/FSFR Bldg 950
Unit 5200, Box 105
APO AE 09461
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Brussels, Belgium
Army Community Service
Unit 8100
(NOTE TO ALL!!!
This base has asked to be removed several times, they are receiving more coupons
than they can possible handle, from many sources. We took them off our
list, but people are still out there sending coupons from lists that have likely
been erroneously passed around. This is why we ask for people to
use our list as a main resource as we stay in contact with the bases and keep our list up to date. Then before you send your
coupons out during the year, check back with us to make sure your favorite base is still
accepting coupons! :o)
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Okinawa, Japan
Volunteer/Outreach
Coordinator
ACS - 10th ASG
Unit 35115
APO AP 96376-5115
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U.S. Navy:
Sigonella,
Italy
Fleet and Family Support
Center
Hoffpauir Administrative Center, Bldg. 319
PSC 812 Box 2650
FPO, AE 09627
April 2010: From
the Sigonella Base... "I just came across
your site and wanted to see if you have Sigonella, Sicily on your list of
bases to send coupons to. I do know that some people already send some
here, but it never hurts to have too much :). And a variety. The
problem I've come across is that we get a whole bunch of the same thing for
the same products. Though it doesn't help that our Commissary is much
smaller than average, so some products are not usually carried. And,
we were actually able to use some Internet based printed coupons here.
Which helps, as we use those on the organic milk products. At one time
they were thinking of no longer accepting the printed coupons, but they
still are! Knocking on wood that doesn't stop. Thanks!! :) -
Michella "
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Rota, Spain
Fleet and Family Support
Center
PSC 819 Box 57
FPO AE 09645-5500
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Yokosuka, Japan
Yokosuka
NFA Commissary
August
2010: This base has asked to not receive any more coupons, they were
receiving too many.
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Guam
Fleet and
Family Support Center
Naval Base Guam, Building 106
PSC 455 Box 157
FPO, AP 96540
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PLEASE HELP US KEEP THIS LIST UP TO DATE! If you have an address that we
need to add or remove please contact the editor at michelle@grocerysavingtips.com
-- with the country and address as we have listed above. THANK YOU!!!
ATTN: WEBMASTERS AND BLOGGERS... You can also help by linking
to
this page but PLEASE do not try to copy the list of addresses for your readers
as this information is updated on a MONTHLY basis. If you copy and
post the list somewhere else it will be incorrect within a very short time and
that will not help our families overseas. Trust us, this is a lot harder
to maintain than it may look. Our staff has been working on this Military
Family Coupon Project for many years and we do our best to make sure our list is up to date
every month. Helping families save money on groceries is what we do!!! :o)
Link to this page: http://www.grocerysavingtips.com/expiredgrocerycoupons.htm
Thank you for your support, and thank you for helping our
military families!!!
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