March Secret Pal Swap Closes 4pm Feb 28th
03-19-2013, 10:28 PM
#871
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Litchfield Park, AZ
Posts: 401
I've been doing my postage on-line for ages since it's cheaper and up until this last rate change, the delivery confirmation was free. Now it is included in all packages. If you are sending Priority you don't have to take it to the post office as you can arrange a pick up. But standard mail (or whatever it is now called) does have to be taken in.
No clues fit me yet so I gather my SP is one of the strong silent types. If I don't get it by Friday, I guess I'll join the others on the bench, but I figure since the mailing deadline was this past Friday I'd give it a week to get here before declaring myself a bench warmer.
No clues fit me yet so I gather my SP is one of the strong silent types. If I don't get it by Friday, I guess I'll join the others on the bench, but I figure since the mailing deadline was this past Friday I'd give it a week to get here before declaring myself a bench warmer.
03-20-2013, 03:35 AM
#872
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: East Tennessee
Posts: 1,134
WHOA, oh boy - SP, didn't mean to slight one of your gifts. I was sitting this morning looking quickly at one of my quilting magazines and remembered that one of my SP gifts this month was a years subscription to a quilting magazine. Talk about a gift that continues beyond the month!!! It is/will be GREAT and thank you Nina for doing that for me. Sorry I forgot to mention it when I posted the pictures above. That's the costs of getting older, I guess!
03-20-2013, 06:04 AM
#874
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Coastal Georgia
Posts: 1,508
Have you heard this one??? While standing in line at the post office mailing DGD's Easter box....the guy who was helping each customer before they got up to the window.....he tells me that if I print out the postage at home then I can take 15% off the mailing costs. But I still have to drop it off at the Post Office. Now I haven't heard this one yet. And then when I got up to the window, the clerk tells me that the whole system at the post office is going to change. All the old timers are being let go and new people are being hired. Those who saw the signs of what was going to happen, retired out already. I know I read an article the other day that only "package delivery" will be done 6 days a week. Regular mail delivery (envelope type) will only be 5 days a week....no Saturday delivery of regular mail, only boxes delivered on Saturdays. This is supposed to start in August. Thought you'd like to know.
They claim they are losing money and have to do cut backs.
03-20-2013, 09:07 AM
#876
Super Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: The Granite City, Scotland
Posts: 1,635
Another fantastic parcel!
I'm beyond words (well, not quite, lol). I got another fantabulous parcel today from queenof2802.
As well as lovely batiks, needles, seam ripper, lotion and a bone for Fergus, I also got bobbins for my Featherweight. I'm delighted as I only have 3 and they're very difficult, nigh on impossible, to get here.
I'm over the moon with my Swatch Buddies and the thoughtful refills. I got a set from Darlene too (my 'Thing I Want the Most') so I can make a set of stash fabrics to keep in my class bag, 'just in case' (you never know when that perfect fabric is going to appear) and one for the special quilts I'm making this year! I'm so lucky.
Thank you so much - I love all my gifts!
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As well as lovely batiks, needles, seam ripper, lotion and a bone for Fergus, I also got bobbins for my Featherweight. I'm delighted as I only have 3 and they're very difficult, nigh on impossible, to get here.
I'm over the moon with my Swatch Buddies and the thoughtful refills. I got a set from Darlene too (my 'Thing I Want the Most') so I can make a set of stash fabrics to keep in my class bag, 'just in case' (you never know when that perfect fabric is going to appear) and one for the special quilts I'm making this year! I'm so lucky.
Thank you so much - I love all my gifts!
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03-20-2013, 10:13 AM
#879
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Posts: 1,413
Love this package!
dconroy84: Thank you for such an amazing package. First, I received a lovely letter from Donna. I also received a fantastic sewing machine panel, 4 half yards and 6 fat quarters of gorgeous Asian fabric along with a pretty pincushion. There were long tweezers; scissors with a case that attaches to my sewing machine; 2 packs of green tea and a package of flower seeds. Here is the picture.
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03-20-2013, 11:36 AM
#880
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Lake Charles, LA
Posts: 1,330
Me! Me! It was ME that got left out!!!!!! And of course I'm going to post pictures ......
And take a good look at all this -- and she included a copy of my SP profile with things actually checked off! I really feel special. And EVERYTHING is going to be used, you can count on that. There have been a few projects I've been drooling over that involve "modern" quilting and techniques and call for solids and until now I had none. I'm a hopeless "pattern-holic" and love looking at them again and again for motivation and ideas. Some of these are calling to me right now to try. The mug mats are really funny and make me smile -- not only because of what they say but where they came from and the thought behind them. Thank you again, Krystyna. I'm grateful and very touched by the sentiment.
And ...................................TA-DAH!!
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