The Valentine Re-Mailing Program

The Valentine Re-Mailing Program

Loveland is perhaps best known worldwide as the home of the “Valentine Re-Mailing Program”. Every year, more than a hundred thousand Valentines are packaged inside larger envelopes and sent to Loveland, where volunteers hand-stamp them with a Valentine’s verse and send them on to the intended recipients. Each year a contest is held by the Chamber of Commerce and promoted through through the local newspaper, the Reporter Herald, for residents to submit their designs and verses.

2015 Loveland Valentine Verse
The verse inside the 2015 Loveland Valentines Card

 

A winning verse and design are chosen from all the competition entries and the two are combined to form the ‘Official Chamber of Commerce Loveland Valentine’ – the card for 2015 is shown here.

The 2015 Loveland Valentine Card
The 2015 Loveland Valentine Design features a hand drawn scene of Lake Loveland and verse visible through a die-cut.

Leading up to Valentine’s Day, the city authorizes the placement of red hearts with sponsored personal messages on light poles and other fixtures of the downtown streets.

The Loveland Chamber of Commerce and Loveland Post Office sponsor the Loveland Valentine Re-mailing Program, 5400 Stone Creek Circle, 9 a.m. Approximately 60 volunteers gather to stamp a special message from the Sweetheart City on valentine cards sent to Loveland from all 50 states and more than 120 countries in 2014.

During the remailing program, the Loveland Chamber of Commerce becomes an official US Postal Service Sub-Station!

How to Remail From Loveland – the ‘traditional’ way:

volunteers stamping remailed cards with the Loveland Cachet
Volunteers stamping remailed cards with the Loveland Cachet

If you would like to have your valentine card stamped with the official Loveland Colorado cachet and stamp, please mail your pre-stamped, pre-addressed envelopes (envelopes should each have 49-cent postage; postcards should have appropriate postage), add extra stamps/postage for heavier/odd shaped valentines, mail in a large stamped envelope to the Loveland Remailing program at this address:

Postmaster
Attn: Valentine Re-mailing
446 E. 29th St.
Loveland, CO 80538-9998

Updated 2015 Deadlines for delivery by Valentines Day, Feb. 14:

For international destinations, your cards should be in Loveland by Feb. 3rd.
For within U.S. and outside of Colorado, cards should be in Loveland by Feb. 6th.
For within the state of Colorado (and now Wyoming), cards should be in Loveland by Feb. 10th.

You may also drop off your stamped envelope at one of the remailing boxes in any local grocery stores, where provided. King Soopers & City Markets stores have done this yearly. There is a remailing box at the Post Office on 29th St. in Loveland, and in the lobby of the Chamber of Commerce / Loveland Visitor’s Center also. The deadline for In-State cards through King Soopers is February 8th, 2015.

If you have any questions about sending your own Valentine’s Day cards to Loveland to have it postmarked from Loveland Colorado, please contact the Loveland Chamber of Commerce at (970) 667-6311

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If you have any questions buying your Official Loveland Valentine from us, please call WithLoveFromLoveland.com at (970) 593-6260

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How to Remail from Loveland *and* get the Official 2015 Loveland Valentine

You can buy the official Loveland Valentine from us – provide us the message and recipient’s adddress – we send your card for you:

Purchase the 2015 card here – we will remail it for you!- or –
Why not just use the existing Remailing system?

We ONLY sell the Official Loveland Valentine’s Day cards and each card will get the same Loveland Colorado Post Office Cancellation as if you sent a card directly to the Loveland for remailing – because we hand-deliver it into the remailing program.
Cards purchased from us can be bought RIGHT UP TO the deadline date.
Save a stamp, an envelope and your valuable time – the regularAn official Loveland Valentine we sent to Veterans in Nebraskaremailing is a great program, run by the Loveland Chamber and staffed by many wonderful volunteers, but you have to purchase your card early, address it, place and stamp on it and then put it in another envelope with more postage, then send the card to Loveland before it gets into the program. Buying directly from us, not only allows you the purchase of the Official Loveland Valentine but it saves you all the running around. Your card will still get stamped by all the volunteers and gets stamped with the cachet and the Loveland Post Office cancellation.
You can not buy the Loveland Valentine’s Day card outside of Loveland Colorado so your card will be very unique and a treasure your loved one will remember year’s to come!
Finally, our program is most likely greener because one less stamp + envelope is used! If you are also doing redecorating around the holiday be sure to check out our new wall stencils.
We recommend either purchasing a WithLoveFromLoveLand.com 2015 Valentine’s Day Card, or an Official Loveland Valentine’s Day Card.