About Us
How did
cards4heroes.com get started?
Our Mission . . .
Our Pledge . . .
About our cards . . .
How did
cards4heroes get started?
It was simple,
really. Shortly after the start of the war on terrorism, my husband and I supported troops by sending them care
packages, greeting cards, and letters. In fact, in less than
a year, we had sent hundreds of cards, scores of packages, and
countless letters and emails. I liked sending cards
best, and often added cards or stationery to our
care packages so that the soldier, marine, sailor, or airman could
have nice cards to send back home to family and friends.
But, I could never
find patriotic greeting cards at local stores, much less
greeting cards with military themes. Certainly, there were
no cards that thanked military spouses or parents for their
role. And no thank
you cards expressed the kind of gratitude that we felt toward
the military men and women who work so hard and sacrifice so much to
protect our Country. So, I decided to have custom cards
made.
One thing led to
another. Eventually, I realized that if I cannot find
appropriate cards, other people cannot find them either.
That’s when I embarked on this adventure of starting a company
that would design and sell the kinds of cards I could never find
but wanted to send to the men and women serving our Country.
Our Mission . . .
The mission of
cards4heroes.com is a simple one: to help our fellow
patriotic Americans
thank their heroes—like our hard-working troops and veterans,
as well as their military families who are so crucial to their
success—by designing
greeting cards with appropriate sentiments and suitable
stationery products and invitations.
Offering a Wide Selection of Patriotic & Military Cards
All of the greeting cards, notecards, invitations and stationery
products that we design and manufacture have military or
patriotic themes. We have cards for every every service
branch - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard,
National Guard, and even a few for Merchant Marines - cards
for virtually every holiday, and for almost all occasions. And, we focus
specially on
products for those who are deployed in harms' way and their
families.
Offering a Wide Selection of Patriotic & Military Gifts
As our company has grown, we have also decided to offer a wide
variety of patriotic and military gifts, including unique gift
baskets. We will
continue to expand our gift offerings to better serve you.
Offering Superior Customer Service & Fast Delivery
In addition to our wide selection of products, (we now have over
500 to choose from), we also strive to provide superior customer
service. Whether you are ordering online, by phone or fax,
or even by mail, we will work hard to ensure a smooth
transaction and speedy order fulfillment. And, if we goof
on something, we'll make it right!
Our Pledge . . .
To further support our troops, we pledge to donate at least ten
percent (10%) of our profits to military-related organizations. So,
not only do you get wonderful cards to give to a soldier, but
your purchase keeps on giving through the donations we make.
About our cards . . .
At cards4heroes.com, we
design and manufacture our own line of greeting cards. We know
that eventually almost every card we make and sell is sent to an
active member of the armed services, the reserves, national
guard, or a veteran--or a member of their family. Each step in our design, production, and
order fulfillment, therefore, is carried out with gratitude to
those heroes in mind. From start to finish, greeting cards from
cards4heroes.com reflect a labor of love and a deep gratitude to
our military.
We start by designing our cards
with patriotic or military-related graphics and images, although
not all cards will include such images. Great
thought is given to every verse. We also take special care in
selecting fonts for all text in each card design. Each card
design is perfected and is then vetted for feedback.
We use quality heavy cardstock and a
variety of specialty papers--over 60 kinds in all. Most
greeting card designs, for example, call for parchment liners or other
fine specialty papers because we want to provide extra writing space
for customers to write their own special messages if they wish.
For ease of writing, we never use heavily textured papers. We also
offer plenty of blank notecards.
Unlike many other card
stores, we offer virtually every design as a single card and in
a box set of 10. So, when you see a blank notecard that you
like, you can buy just one or two instead of a whole box.
And, for when you need multiple copies of a greeting card, for
example when enclosing them in care packages for a large number
of troops, we also sell most greeting cards by the box.
Boxes of 10 cards generally save you 20-30% off the price of
buying them individually. (We also offer bulk
discounts for orders of 100 or more of a single design.)
Our cards are generously sized.
Our large cards are usually 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", and our small cards and
notecards are usually 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". We also carry
some cards that are 6 1/2" x 5" and a few 5" square
cards. All cards come with a
matching envelope, and boxed sets always include an extra
envelope for your convenience. Christmas cards generally
include gold foil-lined envelopes.
Boxed cards
get special treatment because we expect that many may be sent
directly to soldiers as gifts in care packages to enable them to
write to family and friends, or as gifts to a servicemember's
family for use in corresponding with the servicemember.
Envelopes in box sets are thus gathered with patriotic ribbon,
or ivory ribbon if it is more appropriate. The boxes, once
filled with cards and envelopes, are then sealed with a red,
ivory, blue or yellow
ribbon, as appropriate for the design of the cards inside.
All orders are filled by hand
with loving care. Each shipment to every customer is
double-checked for accuracy after all cards are hand-selected.
Finally, each shipment is carefully packed for delivery, and is
promptly shipped - often the same day.
Our cards are designed and
produced in America by Americans. And, all our cards are
printed on papers made in America, although a few cards may
incorporate fine Italian papers. Also, almost all ribbons used in box
sets, as well as the envelopes, are made in America. We always strive to use
products and services that are made in our Country.
At
cards4heroes.com, LLC, our deep gratitude toward our troops,
veterans, and their military families is
reflected in every card we make and every order you receive!
We hope you agree.
Donna
Nakagiri
President
cards4heroes.com, LLC
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