I have been a long time “silent” reader and am enthused about this forum and the helpfulness of everyone and the great help granted to those looking for answers.
I want to ask the following questions and perhaps you all can give me advice and/or directions on how to proceed.
I know of an elderly gentleman who will be celebrating his 80th birthday soon and I want to do something special and unique; so my idea is to get him birthday greetings from all over the world. As incentive I was thinking of perhaps do a drawing of a hotel voucher(s) among those that write. Unfortunately I am at a loss of how to put this idea into action.
Where could I go and get the required necessary wide-spread advertisement? Any idea on how I could get total strangers to invest time a card/letter/stamp to a total stranger? Will a drawing of hotel voucher(s) cause any legal problems? Would this actually be an incentive? Or is this a bad idea all together?
I don’t want to contact the media; that would require revealing his name and address and not only would spoil the surprise but also might not be in his best interest. I was thinking of directed all mail to a post office box to keep this as a total surprise.

I appreciate any comments you might have and any help you can give me.

Karina

PS: Thank you Mikel at Webflyer for your kind e-mail and directing me to the right Forum.