An Obadiah Slope column
What do you talk about with siblings you have not seen for a while? For Obadiah, the conversation with his sister turned to stamps, and a quick lunchtime Google turned up plenty of places that want them.
She’s a Baptist, so Baptist Mission Australia is a great place to send them. Their site says they have raised $60,000 a year from stamps. Obadiah likes the email address of their NSW rep, Trevor Bridges,
[email protected], Obadiah can’t go past that. Apparently, a team of Queensland Baptists peel the stamps off the cut-off bit of the envelope they want you to send the stamps still attached to. They suggest dropping off the stamps at their state offices
The Uniting Church has stamp committees that meet to sort stamp donations.
C/- Uniting Church in Australia,
PO Box A2178,
Sydney, NSW 1235,
will find the NSW team and “Sammy Stamp” the Vict/Tas team say send them to
c/- Ian & Margaret Beaumont,
Unit 64, Bert Newton Retirement Village
4 Pioneer Walk
Highett Vic 3190
The Sydney Anglican Stamp Society (SASS) collects stamps to support CMS, the Church Mission Society. Their address for used stamps is
CMS Stamps,
Level 5, 51 Druitt St
Sydney 2000.
Mary MacKillop Today, a catholic International development agency collects stamps, and their address for stamps is
Mary MacKillop Today
PO Box 1646
North Sydney NSW 2059
Mary MacKillop Today have this useful diagram:
