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PLAN:
1) As often as possible, send ONLY checks or money
orders. If unable, do not hold money back -- better
send cash than hold it back -- but where possible
without delay send check or money order.
2) Make them out, just as in the past, to Herbert W.
Armstrong, or Worldwide Church of God, or Ambassador
College.
3) Place these in one of our self-addressed envelopes,
and SEAL, just as before.
4) Instead of mailing the letter, take it to church
and hand it to your local pastor. Everything JUST AS
BEFORE, except hand it to your local pastor instead of
mailing it.
That is all YOU DO!
Your pastor then will put all these SEALED envelopes into ONE
PACKAGE, and HE will then mail them. But not as they have been
mailed in the past. We are selecting a number of DIFFERENT mailing
addresses. For the first FEW weeks, they will be addressed to one
of our top officials at Headquarters, personally, in HIS name, and
at his address -- probably at another town in the Los Angeles area,
where the packages will be promptly called for and brought to the
Headquarters office. After a few weeks, they will go to a
different name and a different address. Before any dishonest
postal clerks get on to one of these, the address will be changed.
All this, of course, WE at Headquarters will plan with your local
pastors.
So all YOU do is, try to send the money in form of check or
money order, and instead of mailing, hand it sealed -- WITHOUT a
stamp -- (this saves you the postage) -- to your local pastor. He
will send the package, registered and insured, to the address we
give him.
Of course Co-Workers who are NOT members will continue sending
their offerings just as before. OR, we may have them send to one
or two other addresses -- but that will not affect what you do.
BY THIS PLAN WE BELIEVE WE CAN STOP 90 % OR MORE of the loss
by theft. In time the few thieves still at large will learn there
is so LITTLE money in the mail that comes to Box 111, Pasadena,
that they will consider it is NOT WORTH THE RISK OF GETTING CAUGHT
to steal any more from our mail.
Now ONE THING MORE!
When these thieves have stolen our mail, they take out ONLY
the CASH. The money sent in checks and money orders they probably
tear up or burn. It is TOO RISKY for them to try to forge my name,
or that of the Church or the College. We are too well known now,
and they would almost surely be caught and arrested if they tried