Cancelled Stamps Needed for Tubfrim in Norway

Tubfrim of Norway

Send your used stamps and phonecards to TUBFRIM, NO-3540 Nesbyen, Norway.

Your effort on behalf of TUBFRIM and the handicapped children that we support, is highly appreciated. Please, keep up the good work and we will get a nice surplus this year as well.

What is it? A charity in Norway originally created to eradicate tuberculosis in Norwegian children by collecting and selling used frimerker to stamp collectors. Frimerker is the Norwegian word for stamps. Blend parts of the words tuberculosis and frimerker, and you get “Tubfrim”.

Send us your cancelled postal stamps

Since its inception in 1928, the Norway-based organization, Tubfrim, has been raising money to help children.

Originally started to aid children afflicted by tuberculosis, the organization now works to improve the quality of life for children and youth with handicaps as well.

Sons of Norway members have been an integral part of Tubfrim’s success since 1986. Lodges and individuals participate by clipping used stamps and sending them to Tubfrim, which sells them to dealers and collectors.

In addition to helping children, there is an added incentive for stamp clippers. For every pound of stamps collected, the member or lodge is entered into a drawing to win one of two plane tickets to Norway. Several hundred handicapped children benefits from the fund raised by TUBFRIM - every year!

THANK YOU for participating in our humanitarian program by sending us used stamps and phonecards.

Please, never throw away canceled stamps and phonecards. Stamps and phonecards from any country in the world can be used.

Just cut or tear the stamps off the envelopes, leaving a slight margin (approx. 1/2 inch) to keep the perforation intact. Damaged stamps (damaged perforation, edges etc.) are worthless and are to be thrown away. (Damaged phonecards are also to be thrown away.)

We are also happy to receive stamp collections, old envelopes, covers and postcards. If envelopes, postcards etc. are more than 50 years old, then please do not cut off the stamp, but send us the whole envelope/postcard!

The stamps sent to Norway are sold to wholesalers and collectors with the proceeds used by the Norwegian Health Association to finance tuberculosis research and improve the quality of life for children infected by the disease as well as children with handicaps.

Save used stamps and phonecards to:
TUBFRIM
NO-3540 NESBYEN, NORWAY.

All type of stamps and phonecards are received with thanks. We give them a "new" value.

TUBFRIM is owned by the Norwegian Health Association (Nasjonalforeningen for folkehelsen).

Below: Chairman, Hallgrim Berg, and Managing Director Arvid Syversen, enjoy a greater amount of stamps that have been received.

Chairman, Hallgrim Berg, and Managing Director Arvid Syversen holding container of cancelled stamps

 
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