I Have Shipping OCD

Oh gracious.  I do have a terrible case of OCD.  Shipping OCD.  Last week I went to print my shipping labels, and my printer was out of ink.  My husband usually helps me with this but he was at work. What did I do?  I saved all of the labels in a pdf and emailed them to Staples, where they printed them for me.  Then I went and picked them up, taped them on my packages, and took them to the post office.

Then, on President's Day (yesterday) I worked on orders, and wanted to get them finished before the approaching big snow storm.  The post office was closed, the drop boxes were locked shut.  So I took my packages to Staples where a mail truck picks up mail every day at 11:00 am.  As the snow was starting to fall, I got all of my orders to Staples.  And I have my fingers crossed that a mail truck has picked them up today.  I'm glad I decided to do this, because we are snowed in here at home.

My husband thinks I'm batty when it comes to shipping my orders out.  But it is really important to me.  My creations and customers are so very special to me!  I'm so thankful that Staples has helped me out in a pinch!

UPDATE:  Tracking says the packages were picked up today!  Yay!  

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I Did It!

Hi everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful Saturday! Well I finally moved up into the world of technology and have started using online postage. I have been told by so many other Etsy sellers that it is so much cheaper and easier to use compared to the old fashioned post office postage. But it was really hard for me to make the change because the old fashioned version has always worked so well for me since I opened my shop 7 years ago. I had my own system going well and a good rapport with the post office workers.

But last week I finally attempted to put together online labels, print them out and stuck them to my packages, and dropped them off at the front counter of the post office (no standing in line!). I was extremely skeptical and nervous at first that they would not make it safely to their destinations. I have been watching their online tracking info closely, and I have wonderful news to report that today they arrived safely to their destinations! Yay! So this opens a whole new world for me and my business... and now I will be doing online labels from now on!