How to Donate Expired Coupons
You may think those expired coupons are worthless, but they still have some value. Military families are often on a tight budget and can use expired grocery coupons on their base, as long as they are no more than 6 months expired. According to their website, the Overseas Coupon Program has been sending expired coupons to military families since 1992. You can donate your expired coupons as a way to help out the families of our troops with their expenses.
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Instructions
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Go through your expired coupons and pull out the ones that are expired no longer than 2 months. This ensures the military families still have time to use them when the coupons arrive. They can't use any that are expired longer than 6 months.
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Put the coupons in piles according to food and non-food items as you're sorting out the old ones. Non-food items might be health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies, pet food or over-the-counter medicines, among other things.
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Place each pile into two plastic zipper bag, one marked "food" and the other "non-food." Put these baggies into a larger envelope.
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Find a military base to which to send the coupons on the Overseas Coupon Program website. Choose a base from the Base List. Be sure the base you select is accepting coupons. If the base listing says, "Yes, please adopt us!" the base is accepting coupons.
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Bring your envelope to the post office to mail. Fill out the USPS form 2976-A to mail the package overseas.
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Tips & Warnings
Internet printable coupons, coupons from the Sunday paper, manufacturers' coupons found in the Smart Source boxes in grocery stores or any other type of manufactures coupons can be sent to the overseas program.
Collect coupons from friends, neighbors, relatives or at church and send them in a flat rate priority mailer.
Do not send restaurant or store-specific coupons.
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Comments
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Just wanted to share how you can donate your expired coupons to a military family.
