Family pictures to boost troop morale

ShoeboxReprints.com is offering to scan up to 1,000 photos and put them on a CD for $49.95, with same day mail order fulfillment. Military families will receive free return deliver of their pictures. 30minphotos.com Mitch Goldstone hopes this promotion will touch off a wave of photos heading over to servicemen overseas on Valentine's Day.

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This Valentine’s Day, Military Families To Use Shoe Boxes of Family Pictures - Spanning Generations - To Boost Troop Morale. ShoeboxReprints.com Scans Up To One-Thousand Pictures To CDs For Just $49.95, Plus Free Return Delivery

(Irvine, CA) January 12, 2006 – Don’t worry that you cannot mail roses to service members abroad for Valentine’s Day, instead, you can email your entire shoe boxes of family photo memories.

If Mitch Goldstone’s plan works, thousands of individual family photos - spanning generations and currently packed away in shoe boxes - will touch off an emotional Valentine’s Day for service members abroad. 30minphotos.com, the California-based retail and online boutique photo service, founded in 1990 by Mitch Goldstone and Carl Berman, have launched a new division called: ShoeboxReprints.com uses high volume Kodak photo scanners to instantly archive and preserve any size, double-sided pictures - from wallets to 11x17 enlargements onto digital CDs and for ordering Kodak-quality reprints, enlargements, contact sheets and online upload sharing and fulfillment.

By archiving and preserving generations of family photos, ShoeboxReprints.com was the first to design this new business model for archiving large quantities of photographs. The cost is just $49.95 to scan up to 1,000 photos onto digital CDs in minutes and with same day mail order fulfillment. Military families receive free return delivery.

The Eastman Kodak Company high-speed imaging scanner hardware and Kodak Image Capture Software technology behind this breakthrough safely scans upwards of 700 photos (wallets - 11x17 enlargements) in about 5-minutes.

Goldstone has a history of support for important local and national causes, including bringing 5,000 people to support the airlines and New York City on Veteran’s Day, 2001 (www.epiccusa.com) As an extension of his company’s involvement with military families, he co-founded "Operation Photo" last year to donate used-digital cameras to military families by partnering with the San Diego-based profit Operation Homefront which aids families of deployed soldiers and reservists.

"Now, we want to build upon that successful grassroots initiative," said Goldstone, "especially because that campaign was so successful and garnered national media coverage, including a live interview on Fox Network News. This new program, while still involving pictures, is something that everyone can enjoy. After all, who doesn’t have generations of family photos stored away in shoe boxes just waiting to be revisited, reprinted and shared?"

ShoeboxReprints.com designed this special pre-Valentine’s Day program for all military families to include free U.S. Priority Mail return shipping to help defer costs for those associated with military families. Many people using our mail order service send several thousands pictures, which is quite heavy to mail.

Goldstone and Berman’s plan this time is to again help soften the effects of deployment by having family’s turn all their photo memories into digital files to electronically share with their loved ones stationed overseas who are protecting our country.

Imagine this Valentine’s Day as service members open their email to view hundreds and even thousands of photos, representing generations of their favorite memories; each one reminding them why their mission to protect our nation is so imperative.

For complete information, order form and instructions on mailing your photos for same-day scanning onto high resolution (300 dpi, 1.5 - 2 MB files) visit: www.ShoeboxReprints.com. To receive free return delivery through May 30, 2006, on the downloadable order form page military families must indicate their affiliation by writing the word "MILITARY" on the order form.