Can I send letters from templates I found online?

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Can I send letter from templates I found online? Or even make my own stationary? Or do I have to use the ones Compassion provides?

Anna Birschbach

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Posted 3 years ago

3 years ago

Sarah Heacock Schreffler

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YES! You can still send letters through the mail to their address, on any stationary you want to use. Write the letter, be sure to include sponsor ID and child ID on every sheet. Max of 6 sheets (front and back) per child. But you can put correspondence to more than one child in the envelope when you send it to Compassion. If you have the ability to scan to a JPEG or TIFF format, you can also write your letter, scan it in, and then attach it online to send. I have typed up letters in Word (allowing me to put pictures more precisely within the text) and printed (using Universal Document Converter) to JPG format and then attached.

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2017-03-07T21:48:10+00:00

Dana Catlett

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Are you attaching them as a photo? Every time I try to do this, the upload screen wants to chop off a chunk of the image at the top and bottom. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

2017-03-07T22:33:12+00:00

Sarah Heacock Schreffler

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I just checked. I printed the Word Document to JPG form and then Uploaded on the third choice online. It put the whole page in without chopping anything off, top or bottom (It does appear to cut a bit left and right, but I don't write margin to margin so that is ok)

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3 years ago

Anna Birschbach

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Awesome! Thank you!!! So, 6 sheets max, if I have one sheet double sided, does that count as two?

2017-03-07T16:52:31+00:00

Sarah Heacock Schreffler

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No. 6 sheets, doublesided.

2017-03-07T16:54:23+00:00

Sarah Heacock Schreffler

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I'm not sure you are allowed to write 12 sheets of handwriting (6 sheets front and back). I've never sent more than 2 handwritten sheets (one sheet front and back). Used the other sheets to send coloring pages, Sudoku puzzles (and the instructions for doing them), Photos. Do realize anything you send is going to be printed front and back to conserve paper on the other side.

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2017-03-07T19:05:27+00:00

Chantel

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My understanding is that you can write 12 sheets of handwriting total meaning six individual sheets of paper but written on the front and the back of each individual sheet. One double sided sheet counts as one individual sheet of paper. Remember that color sheets, cards, and stickers are all a part of and not an addition to the 6 individual sheets count.

2017-03-07T19:10:45+00:00

Anna Birschbach

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Thank you for the answers!! super helpful!!!!
Check out this awesome sheet I made for my girl!! What do you think? :)

Image: https://d2r1vs3d9006ap.cloudfront.net/s3_images/1562985/RackMultipart20170307-63282-g06f3g-Us_to_Olga_inline.jpg?1488913805

Image: https://d2r1vs3d9006ap.cloudfront.net/s3_images/1562985/RackMultipart20170307-63282-g06f3g-Us_to_Olga_inline.jpg?1488913805

2017-03-07T19:11:55+00:00

Sarah Heacock Schreffler

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So cool! I've played with trying to do something like this, but had problems figuring it out. (my kids are all Central/South America so our chain would be shorter)

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