For 76th year, the ladies of Loveland stamp Valentine’s Day cards from all over the world

LOVELAND, Colo. — If you ship your Valentine a card this 12 months, perhaps add a historic pit cease.

For the 76th 12 months, the all-volunteer crew of women on the Loveland Chamber of Commerce are stamping an estimated 200,000 items of mail with a locally-written poem.

“So we do a contest the place we really create a cache, which is the precise stamp that goes on it – in addition to a brand new postmark yearly,” mentioned Mindy McCloughan, President of the Loveland Chamber of Commerce. “Individuals ship their playing cards from everywhere in the world proper right here, to be hand stamped by our volunteers.”

She’s not kidding: They’ve acquired mail from all 50 states and greater than 110 nations.

The deadlines are quick approaching, so if you wish to add an additional contact to your Valentine’s Day card, you’ll need to mail it out quickly. Till Feb. 10, they are often mailed to Loveland’s Submit Places of work at 446 E. twenty ninth Road and 601 Cleveland Ave.

It’s also possible to drop it off on the following areas in Loveland, by Feb. 9:

• Loveland Chamber of Commerce/Customer Middle – 5400 Stone Creek Circle Suite 200
• Goals Group School – 104 East 4th Road
• Unbiased Monetary – 935 Cleveland Ave.
• Barnyard Pet and Provide – 806 14th Road SW
• Mueller Pye and Associates CPA LLC – 762 W. Eisenhower Blvd.
• Elevations Credit score Union – 970 E Eisenhower Blvd.

Need to meet a few of the volunteers, and listen to how particular this custom is for them? Watch the video within the participant above.