UPDATE
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Since we started this project on Saturday, April 11th, the response to our Food Bank Soap Drive has continued to surpassed all of our expectations. Initially, our final goal was to send 3,000 soap bars to Food Banks across Canada and the USA.
At this very moment, with the support of our amazing customers and friends, we are currently sending 8,610 soap bars of our 100% natural unscented soap bars (retail value of $49,507.50) to Food Banks throughout Canada, including all 10 provinces and 3 territories, as well as several states in the USA.
This morning we delivered 1,190 soap bars to the Upper Room Hospitality Ministry Food Bank in Charlottetown who were happy to see us as they were very low on soap.
This afternoon we are delivering 290 soap bars to the Salvation Army Food Bank in Charlottetown. We will also be leaving them with 610 soap bars for the Salvation Army Food Bank in Summerside and 350 soap bars for the West Prince Caring Cupboard Food Bank in Alberton which they will be taking there on our behalf.
All Prince Edward Island Food Banks will be covered with our delivery on Monday morning of 350 soap bars to the Southern Kings & Queens Food Bank in Montague and 120 soap bars to the Souris.
All orders for Food Banks in Alberta are already packed and leaving today. All orders for Food Banks in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Newfoundland & Labrador (we have some going to the Island as well as Labrador), Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunuvut are being packed right now and will be shipped this afternoon.
Finally, all orders for Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the USA will be packed and shipped this upcoming week.
If you have placed an order already, please expect an email from us confirming where your order is going to, a copy of the letter we included with your order, and an email with either a tracking number or tracking number link if available.
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CANADA
Purchase
50 Bars of Soap
for delivery in Fall 2020 to a
Food Bank
in Your Community
for $50.
(This is a 50 x $5.75 = $287.50 retail value. Shipping is free. Applicable tax is extra. While supplies last. Other conditions apply.)
U.S.A.
Purchase
50 Bars of Soap for delivery in Fall 2020 to a
Food Bank
in Your Community
for $60.
(This is a 50 x $5.75 = $287.50 retail value. Shipping is free. While supplies last. Other conditions apply.)
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Responding to COVID-19
(Revised)
By now you may have heard in the news that Food Banks across Canada and the USA are in dire need of supplies in many areas with a high number of cases of COVID-19 or areas that people are being required to stay at home.
If you would like to help us directly, you can purchase a box of 50 soap bars right now for $50 in Canada or $60 to the USA and choose the Food Bank it will be delivered to. We'll make the soap, label the soap, pack the soap, and ship the soap directly to the Food Bank of your choice. We'll even provide the tracking number link (so you can track it in transit) by email the moment it has been shipped and update you with another email the day it has been received. There are more details as well as step-by-step instructions below on what you will need to do.
While speaking to the representatives at the Food Banks, we learned that some of them are currently purchasing soap for their clients because soap donations are in very short supply. At the very least, the soap you choose to give will allow them to use a small portion of their donated funds to purchase something else they may need instead.
Thank you from everyone here at
The Great Canadian Soap Co.
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HOW TO BUY A BOX OF 50 BARS OF SOAP FOR DELIVERY IN FALL 2020 TO A FOOD BANK IN YOUR COMMUNITY
FOR $50 or $60
Disclaimer: We are not a registered charity and are not asking for or taking donations from anyone. What we are doing is making available a very special soap offer at an extremely reduced price that you can purchase for a registered non-profit Food Bank of your choice in Canada or the USA. Because of this arrangement, there will not be any charity or donation receipts provided. With respect to money, the way we are attempting to do this is similar (we believe) to an informal
donation bin that some grocery stores install inside their store. You pay for the groceries at the register as you regularly would and then just deposit the food in the bin which the grocery store then delivers to the Food Bank.
Conditions: Because we are doing this with very little planning due to the urgency of the COVID-19 situation and because we have never done anything on this scale before, we reserve the right to clarify or change the terms of this promotion at any time, as well as temporarily suspend or permanently end this promotion at any time. We ask now for your both patience and understanding in advance if and when we do. The following conditions are subject to change without notice and at our sole discretion.
- This Food Bank offer can not be combined with any other coupon code, discount, or any other offer of any type.
- We may end this stage of the promotion a t any time. If it is ended, we will remove both of the 50 Bars of Soap for a Food Bank products from our website listing and disable the free shipping FOODBANK coupon code.
- If you would like us to choose a Food Bank for you and don't have a specific one in mind, you can just say in the Order Comments section when checking out something like, "Any Food Bank in Calgary" or "Any Food Bank in Nova Scotia" etc. and we will find one for you.
- If you would like to choose a specific Food Bank that you would like to help, please provide the name, address, and phone number of the Food Bank in the Ship To area of the checkout form. We can not ship to you directly and will only ship the soap to the Food Bank.
- In Canada, you can locate a Food Bank of your choice by visiting this national representative organization: Food Banks Canada.
- In the USA, you can locate a Food Bank of your choice by visiting this national network: Feeding America.
- We must be able to easily determine that the Food Bank is a registered non-profit or charitable organization and is currently actively engaged in being a Food Bank. If we can not, we will email you and request that you provide a link to their website that shows they are.
- You may purchase more than one box of soap to send to a particular Food Bank. You may also make multiple individual purchases of boxes to be sent to more than one Food Bank. In either case, we do reserve the right to limit quantities or to refund orders that are too much for us.
- No other items except the boxes of soap specifically allocated for Food Banks in Canada or the USA can be added to the order or sent with those special boxes of soap to a Food Bank.
- We reserve the right to refund orders that are simply too costly for us to ship (for example, very rural or very isolated or very northern areas, etc.)
- Your invoice will not be included with the order going to the Food Bank nor will any of your personal billing information. Unless you request to remain anonymous in the Order Comments section when completing your order, we will include a nice letter with the shipment to let the Food Bank know your name and province or state only (not your city or address or other contact information though) and that you have purchased this box of soap for them. For example, the only personal information we will include will be limited to something like: "We would like you to know that Jane Smith from Ontario, who is a customer of ours, has generously purchased this box of soap for you to distribute to some of the families you help."
- If more than one person is sending a box of soap to the same Food Bank, we will pack the boxes separately and include separate notes in each of them of who they are from but we will send them as one shipment in order to save courier costs.
FOODBANK
Follow 3 simple steps to send 50 Bars of Soap to a Food Bank in Canada or the USA:
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2) Enter the coupon code FOODBANK when you check out and then click the APPLY button. See example below for entering the coupon code.
When you have completed your online order and are on the first checkout screen where all of the products in your shopping cart are shown, simply enter the coupon code listed above (please use only capital letters and no spaces for the code) in the text box following the words "
Coupon Code? Enter it here:
", then click the APPLY button.
Be sure to use all capital letters and no spaces when entering the coupon code. Your shopping cart total must contain at least one of the special soap boxes for a Food Bank in order for the coupon code to work which will then automatically add a special Free Shipping choice to the shipping options.
3) Click on "PROCEED TO CHECKOUT" or "PayPal Check out" and continue with payment information.
Note: We want your ordering experience to be as quick and easy as possible. If you have any trouble getting the coupon code to work when placing your order online, you have the option of simply listing the coupon code in the Order Comments section during the checkout process. When we see the coupon code in the Order Comments section, we will then refund the shipping amount back to your credit card or through PayPal and send you an email confirmation of the transaction.
You are also welcome to place a telephone order with us if that would be easier for you. We are open 7 days a week from 9:00am until 5:00pm ADT.
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Because we are doing this with very little planning due to the urgency of the COVID-19 situation and because we have never done anything on this scale before, we reserve the right to clarify or change the terms of this promotion at any time, as well as temporarily suspend or permanently end this promotion at any time, and ask for your both patience and understanding in advance if and when we do.
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Having Trouble Placing Your Order Online?
Simply call us at 902-672-2242 or toll free at 1-800-793-1644 and we can take your order over the phone quickly and easily. We are open 7 days a week from 9:00am until 5:00pm Atlantic Daylight Time.
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