Using the CampStamps system in CampInTouch, you can email your children while they are at camp this summer! You can receive their handwritten responses via email as well: CampStamps uses special stationary to scan and electronically deliver handwritten letters from your camper.
Each camper can receive one eLetter per day free of charge. We suggest creating a schedule with parents, grandparents, and anyone else who will be sending CampStamps to ensure that eLetters are appropriately distributed.
If you are interested in emailing your child via CampStamps, please follow the steps below to get started.
1. Login to your CampInTouch account.
2. Select “Email." Check the camper(s) that you want to contact, then type a one-page eLetter to them.
- *Please note: On the email page, there are additional services listed that we will not be supporting. We are only offering the service to submit plain text letters. Please do not select the “Add Stationary” option or the “Send a Smile” option, as we do not have the ability to print out these features.
- However, if you would like to enter a credit card into the system, you may opt to purchase a “Summer Address” for $9.99, which will allow you to send your letters to camp directly from the email address associated with your CampInTouch account, without having to log into CampInTouch. (Though you will first need to set this option up within CampInTouch, where you will find additional instructions.)
- *Please do not use any characters other than standard English letters and punctuation. Unfortunately, emojis and non-Latin characters (such as Hebrew or Russian) cannot be transmitted through the CampStamps system.
3. Submit your message. Once your message is submitted, our office staff will be alerted, and your message will be printed, folded (not placed in an envelope), and delivered with our daily mail distribution. If you wish to submit a sealed letter, you should do so via regular mail.
*Our cut-off time for same-day letter delivery will be 10am, so that eLetters may be distributed along with our daily “snail mail.” Any email letters received after 10am will be printed and delivered the following day.
Your camper can also use CampStamps to reply to you via handwritten letters from your camper scanned and delivered to you electronically. The campers write on special stationery in black pen, and we scan the letter into the CampinTouch system and email it to you.
Please note that regular stationery is not able to be used as a part of this service. You must use the specific stationery available through CampStamps.
Receiving handwritten letters electronically from your child: You can receive handwritten eLetters from your camper through the same system. Each page of eLetter stationery carries a unique barcode for delivery to your inbox. When a camper writes home on this stationery, the camp office will send the page directly to your CampInTouch inbox as a .pdf file.
You can give your camper eLetter stationary in two ways:
- Send an ‘‘eLetter stack’’ with your child before he or she leaves home. You can print a stack of eLetter stationery (up to 20 individual pages at a time) from your CampInTouch account. If you navigate to the yellow Email icon there will be a blue icon at the top of the page to 'Print an eLetter Stack'. Your eLetter inbox is located at the top of the page. You can also have eLetters forwarded to your personal email inbox.
- You may attach eLetter stationery to emails sent to campers by checking off the box at the bottom of the page, 'I would like a handwritten reply from my camper'. When your email is printed at camp, another blank and barcoded page will follow your letter for your child to use.
Be sure to give your child a black pen to use for eLetters. Colors do not transmit.
You will receive an email notification each time an eLetter is returned to you. Once opened, an eLetter can be opened, saved, or forwarded an unlimited number of times.
If you have any questions about the eLetter system, please contact us at welcome@edenvillagecamp.org or 845-809-008