People give and receive everything from monstrous amaryllis to Rex begonias.
At the Living Center, AIDS patients could receive everything from food to the latest information on advances in the treatment of the disease.
In its 15-year history American Stevedoring has moved hundreds of thousands of televisions, loaded tons and tons of coffee and shipped and received everything from sofas to ambulances.
Each guest clutches plastic wrapped sheets listing the treatments they are due to receive, everything from facials to massages, personal training sessions and the saltwater based treatments known as thalassotherapy.
"Overall we've had about 2,000 individual pledges and raised £110,000," says Roberts. "We received everything from private pledges of £2,500 to a little boy who wrote in to say: 'Can you give my pocket money of £4 to the manager so that we can get promoted?'".
So far, he's received everything from Solar-powered iPhone chargers and web cams to shampoo, aftershave, massive boxes of candy, and uh.. a box full of garden gnomes.
Backers can receive everything from temporary tattoos to lenticular images, and they've even designed their own virtual reality viewer (for use with smartphones) for a $50 pledge.
Tarrant explains, "I received everything from an actual image or jpeg to a written text description, each to be translated and repainted.
Every month, Operation Paperback posts a list of requests that they've received, everything from travel books to classics to mysteries to biographies (go easy on the romances!) and volunteers sign up for what they can provide.
Maybe, it is just that the people of the United States have no idea of what is actually happening inside their country and are confused by the stereotype that America's Indigenous receive everything from the Government.
