Tips For Safely Donating Items To Charity

You may decide that you have some item of value that you would like to donate to a charity, indeed as an example many charities are now asking for peoples old mobile phones, as they can make money by sending them off to one of the organisations you see on television offering money for recycling your old mobile phone.

If you are planning on sending your old mobile phone off to a charity or any other valuable item, then make sure the parcel you send it in is up to the job. There is nothing worse than a charity getting an item donated to them, only to find the parcel arrives damaged and worthless.

If you are sending your old mobile phone to a charity then ensure that you pack your parcel out with lots of padding such as bubble wrap, as if a parcel with a phone in it gets dropped in transit, the chances are the screen will break making the parcel worthless to the charity.

Also if you are donating something very valuable such as old jewelry to a charity, then make sure that your parcel is insured for the value of the jewelry inside it. This means that if it gets lost or stolen in transit, then at least you can claim on the insurance, and then give the charity the money.

Never send cash in a parcel to a charity. Always write a cheque as if the cash goes missing from the parcel you will not be able to claim on any insurance.

Lastly if you have sent a parcel of some value to a charity, always make sure you get proof of posting, and then check with the charity that they have received your parcel.





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