road trip

[teramiabullfrog]

top of the mornin, to all you earthly forum gardeners out there spinning, orbiting, and wobbling along our universal space path, and the rest of the day to you as well. may this be one of your good health days. i've just spent the last three days putting together 100, "3-ring" binders, with over 250 missing person flyers, inside sheet protectors, to be placed in every post office, in every town, between san francisco, ca to tacoma, wa, along hwy 101 (northern calif. redwood hwy, oregon coastal hwy, onto the olympic peninsula in washington, and into tacoma). road trip starts monday morning at 4am Pacific Coastal time and i'll be back on feb. 3. i'll bring the lap top and try to check in on FG from time to time. we could still use your help checking to see if the post office in your town is doing what they're suppose to be doing: displaying missing child notices, printed monthly, in a cooperative partnership with General Services Association (GSA), the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) - all fed funded agencies responsible for managing the Child Alert Program. Next time your earthly path leads you into your local post office see if they have some sort of missing child flyer display in the lobby and let me know the zip code and how many flyers are displayed (if any). as i mentioned many times before, we've been into over 2,000 post offices, while traveling through nine western states and only found five post offices with any display of missing person flyers (less than 1%). the Child Alert Program is an annual fed funded, national Program, requiring all Post Offices to maintain a display of missing child notices in their post office lobby. we think this might be a national finding (the post offices are not displaying the flyers as instructed) and could really use help from people in other parts of this country checking this out for us, so we can determine if this is a nationwide problem or it's just not being done on the west coast. and on a global note, most of the help find missing children and help prevent missing children programs created and developed in the U.S. are being adopted and started in countries from throughout the world; therefore, if any of you reading this from places other than the U.S. see missing person flyers displayed in post offices from where you live, please let us know. we get letters and e-mails from the mothers of missing children thanking us for helping search for their missing loved one all the time, any other help we get to improve the potential for finding a missing child is greatly appreciated.