Ros, do you want another rosary, I've just received another in the mail, and I'd be happy to send it over to you.
tim
Donations of rosaries are very helpful. Thank you. If you anticipate having rosaries like that, perhaps you could wait until you have a bunch to send, to save on shipping and hassle for yourself.
I do get donations of rosaries which seem to be premade, like in some sort of mailing. How does one get subscribed to such things? I recently received a package of many such rosaries, indicating that it is a regular mailing. I have seen rosaries of these kind quite often now that I am familiar with them. I see them in the church, on the tables and statues (tables which are not actually in the church, the ones "outside" which have the announcements and bulletins and such). It seems people who get them don't really want them.
For those interested in helping, as it was brought up here (I just wanted to show that rosary...it has no uniform pattern is a complete "mess" of a rosary, but each bead represents a complete rosary somewhere), if a rosary is sent to me, I will eventually find a home for it, but because of my current practices (I no longer try to fulfill large requests), the issue is more of shipping costs. The other issue is addressing envelopes. I wish I had a way of cheaply automating that. While I never know when I'm going to get a request, sometimes I get many in a single day, and other times it goes for days without any requests, so having a good stock of rosaries ready removes a potential problem. At the moment, I have many requests backed up so I hope to get them all fulfilled this week to mail on Friday.
I am also thinking that people who will have more than a one time rosary to send should not have to use me as a middleman. I tried a while ago to have a group with the purpose of sending rosaries directly to the people in need individually, but it attracted more spam than anything and I closed it. If anyone is interested in having such a group, where the requests could be distributed to those able to fulfill them, please contact me.
