LETTERS & PACKAGES
LETTERS FROM CAMPERS
Campers are required to write home twice a week. Due to our location, letters sent through the USPS may take additional time to arrive home. As a result, when you read a letter from your camper, the news is old. To help with delivery of mail, we suggest that you provide your child with self addressed, pre-stamped envelopes and/or postcards and/or ensure that they know how to address mail. Camp will provide a pre-stamped postcard on the first day of camp, knowing this is the quickest way for you to receive the first hello! If you have concerns from a letter that you receive, please call Camp and ask to speak to your child’s Yoetzet.
LETTERS TO CAMPERS
Please write your child often! Receiving mail from home helps campers feel secure and connected while they are away at camp.
For prompt delivery, please address mail in the following way, including Camper’s Name and bunk # (first letter of their edah (i.e. M9 or N27)
Max Rosen, M9
Camp Ramah in the Poconos
2618 Upper Woods Road
Lakewood, PA 18439-3939
NEW FOR SUMMER 2025 - CAMPANION eLETTERS
You can read more about our Campanion app here including how to purchase CampStamps to send electronic letters.
The Campanion app allows families to send their campers a printed, hand-delivered letter. Letters can be composed and sent from your device or in your Camp in Touch account under Online Community, Email. Letter responses from campers will be viewable under the ‘reply’ tab, and an orange indicator lets them know when they have a new message from their camper. Parents who have opted to receive push notifications will get a notification when they have a letter reply from their camper in Campanion mobile. To learn more about purchasing CampsStamps to send your camper Campanion eletters, as well as the frequency of scanning, please review the Campanion eLetters section of the website.
PACKAGE POLICY
CAMP RAMAH WILL ONLY DELIVER LETTERS, POSTCARDS, AND CAMPANION eLETTERS
Packages, regardless of size, will NOT be delivered to campers.
Letters, cards, and postcards are great ways to send a heartfelt "care package" that highlights "care" over "package." Any unauthorized packages received at camp will be donated. We do not have the personnel to deliver unnecessary packages. Please share this revised policy with any friends or family members who may consider sending a package to your camper.
If you determine that there is a critical necessity that your child requires during their time at camp, please email your child’s yoetzet for assistance. Information for contacting your child’s yoetzet will be available in June. It is camp's policy that pre-approved packages are opened by camp staff to ensure the health and safety of the camp community. All food items, including candy and gum, will be confiscated.
At Ramah, we strive to teach children that camp itself is a gift and to encourage them to spend their time enjoying and participating in the camp experience with their friends. We aim to cultivate a clean, healthy environment. This policy follows a nationwide trend among summer camps to prevent an inevitable sense of inequity or imbalance among the campers, to minimize our environmental footprint, and to reduce the emphasis on material objects in a community that emphasizes human connection and natural beauty.