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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / November 2003Chrissy cards on their way!
I just thought I'd pop out of lurking to say that the first half of my catslaves Christmas cards hit the post office today... look out for the little red santakitty in a mailbox near you :) Now I have to sit down and make more cards so I can do the other half! I had to buy more envelopes too... I ran out!  SignatureKaren AKA Kajikit Here kitty kitty kitty... visit http://www.catslaves.org! Come and visit my part of the web: Kajikit's Corner: http://www.kajikitscorner.com Allergyfree Eating Recipe Swap: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Allergyfree_Eating Ample Aussies Mailing List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ampleaussies/ > Now I have to sit down and make more cards so I can do the other half! > I had to buy more envelopes too... I ran out! Ok, now I'm starting to feel like a slacker. I have all my cards and envelopes, but I need to make time to sit down and write them all! SignatureVictor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >> Now I have to sit down and make more cards so I can do the other >> half! I had to buy more envelopes too... I ran out! > > Ok, now I'm starting to feel like a slacker. I have all my cards and > envelopes, but I need to make time to sit down and write them all! Don't feel bad, I haven't even started yet. I never send mind out until after American Thanksgiving. I've got the cards, I've got the envelopes. I don't have enough stamps. And I'm not used to sending cards overseas, so I'm not quite sure how to go about that. Do I have to take them to the Post Office for some special postage? I'm pretty darn sure 37 cents ain't gonna cut it, but if I'm wrong please tell me :) Jill >>>Now I have to sit down and make more cards so I can do the other >>>half! I had to buy more envelopes too... I ran out! [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Jill Someone in the US posted the fees for cards and letters from the US for different destinations only a few days back. Let's see now... Yes, there it is (Nov 16): QUOTE For anyone who might be interested... I talked with my local postal clerk today. Here's the scoop on postage and mailing dates for typical sized holiday season cards from/in the US. INTERNATIONAL Postage is 60 cents for addresses in Canada and Mexico. Postage is 80 cents for all other international addresses. APO, FPO, and other MILITARY MAIL Although this mail usually goes to someone overseas, the USPS treats it as domestic mail. A normal 37 cent stamp will do the trick. DOMESTIC Normal postage applies. There are 6 different holiday stamps to choose from this year. You can see them at http://www.usps.com/holiday/stamps.htm HOW LONG TO ALLOW? The clerk said to allow 4-7 days for delivery of holiday cards, for both domestic and international addresses. He also reminded me that 4-7 days is the "official line". Since the amount of mail in the system builds up and slows things down as Christmas approaches, I was reminded to take that into consideration when deciding when to mail my cards. Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha http://www.jhedge.com UNQUOTE So like you guessed, 37 cents is not enough for all of your cards... :) SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) yahoo (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 >>>> Now I have to sit down and make more cards so I can do the other >>>> half! I had to buy more envelopes too... I ran out! [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > from this year. You can see them at > http://www.usps.com/holiday/stamps.htm > So like you guessed, 37 cents is not enough for all of your cards... > :) Thanks!!! I'll get to work on them tonight. The temps finally decided to drop so it's almost like Winter here in west TN. Until Sunday afternoon it was in the 70F range. Freaky. Jill >>> Now I have to sit down and make more cards so I can do the other >>> half! I had to buy more envelopes too... I ran out! [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Don't feel bad, I haven't even started yet. I never send mind out until >after American Thanksgiving. I usually head out to visit family in California. One year I hadn't mailed them before I left home here in Oklahoma, and didn't have enough stamps. I ended up hand delivering them to the folks out there. And, on more than one occasion, I've been out there a few days before the cards arrived. OT Here in Lawton we've got a pretty crazy mail system. Mail here in town ends up going up to Oklahoma City to be sorted. So, a letter going across the street takes longer to deliver than one going to the City. > I've got the cards, I've got the envelopes. I >don't have enough stamps. And I'm not used to sending cards overseas, so [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Jill SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html When I lived in Oklahoma they lost about 1/4 of our mail. I lost a lucrative career teaching position because they returned the contract marked "address unknown." My address was a P.O. box in their post office! >>>>Now I have to sit down and make more cards so I can do the other >>>>half! I had to buy more envelopes too... I ran out! [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> >>Jill >When I lived in Oklahoma they lost about 1/4 of our mail. I lost a >lucrative career teaching position because they returned the contract >marked "address unknown." My address was a P.O. box in their post office! Priceless ROTFL When I was a kid I in the 60s and 70s I used to write my Grandma in a small town in Ok, and just put "Grandma Touchstone, Broken Bow, OK" and the letters arrived without any problem. Of course, the fact that my Uncle was the Postmaster might just have had something to do with it. LOL <snip> >> OT Here in Lawton we've got a pretty crazy mail system. Mail here in >> town ends up going up to Oklahoma City to be sorted. So, a letter >> going across the street takes longer to deliver than one going to the >> City. SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html >> When I lived in Oklahoma they lost about 1/4 of our mail. I lost a >> lucrative career teaching position because they returned the contract [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > my Uncle was the Postmaster might just have had something to do with > it. LOL A couple of strange post office stories. My best friend is a Postal Inspector and her brother in law works in the regular post office. She moved to Boston a number of years ago. I sent her a card with Elvis on the front as a joke. She never got the card. Then, a *year later* her brother in law was going through some undeliverable mail and found the post card addressed to her! He hand delivered it. She called me up; Jill, did you send me a post card last October? Uh, yeah. Well, I just got it! Another friend of mine, who lived at an address completely unlike mine (not even the street names were similar) got a letter addressed to me. She and I happened to be meeting at a neighborhood hang-out one night so she called me and said, "I've got some mail to bring to you." HUH? What are the chances the mail would be mis-delivered to someone I happen to know? Memphis isn't exactly a small town. Go figure. Jill > <snip> >>> OT Here in Lawton we've got a pretty crazy mail system. Mail here in >>> town ends up going up to Oklahoma City to be sorted. So, a letter >>> going across the street takes longer to deliver than one going to >>> the City. > When I was a kid I in the 60s and 70s I used to write my Grandma in a > small town in Ok, and just put "Grandma Touchstone, Broken Bow, OK" > and the letters arrived without any problem. Of course, the fact that > my Uncle was the Postmaster might just have had something to do with > it. LOL Hmmmm, I dunno. Many years ago here in our little bitty town I remember our Postmaster came in to the bank where I worked at the time to arrange for an overdraft. His paycheck had gotten lost in the mail. ------ Krista Who lives in a one-zipcode town That's terrible, Dave! I'm so very sorry to hear that. Best wishes, SignaturePolonca & Soncek > When I lived in Oklahoma they lost about 1/4 of our mail. I lost a > lucrative career teaching position because they returned the contract > marked "address unknown." My address was a P.O. box in their post office! <snip > Ok, now I'm starting to feel like a slacker. I have all my cards and > envelopes, but I need to make time to sit down and write them all! Don't feel alone, Victor. I've also got the cards and envelopes, but I'm waiting until after Thanksgiving and Mike's Birthday to get them all done. Today I made Mike's birthday cake, and will be making pies (Pumpkin, Blueberry, and Mince) this evening. Tomorrow and Wednesday, I'm working, so I'll be cleaning house (what I can't convince Rob and Mike to do) and making salads and other prepare ahead foods. Thursday I get to put it all together. This year I decided to save time and energy and am using paper plates to eat off of. I feel vaguely guilty. Pam S. Don't feel guilty, Pam, and get others to help you. I do not know how you do it. Best wishes, SignaturePolonca & Soncek > Don't feel alone, Victor. I've also got the cards and envelopes, but > I'm waiting until after Thanksgiving and Mike's Birthday to get them all [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Pam S. Well um .... I took the address list and gave it to one of my employees to add into a database and she made nice labels (talk about ME being lazy). After that I had her make up some return address labels and then do something fun to them. You will have to wait to see..... Hey, why not use the resources, she is hourly and she had nothing to do except answer the occasional phone call. I was going to send her home but figured what the heck.... :) TJ > > Now I have to sit down and make more cards so I can do the other half! > > I had to buy more envelopes too... I ran out! [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov > Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com TJ and The Dust saw Sally selling seashells by the seashore and told us all about it on Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:23:33 -0700: >Well um .... I took the address list and gave it to one of my employees to add >into a database and she made nice labels (talk about ME being lazy). After that >I had her make up some return address labels and then do something fun to them. >You will have to wait to see..... Hey, why not use the resources, she is hourly >and she had nothing to do except answer the occasional phone call. I was going >to send her home but figured what the heck.... :) LOL! I made my own (nonfancy) address and return-address labels using Word and mailmerge. It certainly makes it a lot quicker and less painful to do the cards... makes up for the fact that I'm handmaking my cards this year instead of buying them, so I'm spending all my time 'constructing'. btw, this is the first year I've EVER been this far ahead of the game when it comes to Christmas cards... I usually send them out in the second week of December (maybe)... but I'm feeling pretty good and mentally healthy so far this year and I'm looking forward to Christmas and functioning a LOT better than I have for the last four or five years... it still didn't occur to me to post the cards until I got my first two in the mail! SignatureKaren AKA Kajikit Here kitty kitty kitty... visit http://www.catslaves.org! Come and visit my part of the web: Kajikit's Corner: http://www.kajikitscorner.com Allergyfree Eating Recipe Swap: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Allergyfree_Eating Ample Aussies Mailing List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ampleaussies/ > TJ and The Dust saw Sally selling seashells by the seashore and told > us all about it on Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:23:33 -0700: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > years... it still didn't occur to me to post the cards until I got my > first two in the mail! You folk are going to have to wait till I get paid. The wedding cost us an arm or a leg, and stupid work *still* hasn't managed to get the form to officially declare Joel as my husband to me, which means although I'll get a bigger return at the end of the year, thats a fat lot of help *now*. That, and with Daniel staying with us, we don't have much room for extras like cards and stamps and the moment (Daniel will be paying back rent, but he has to get paid too, and heaven knows when that will be). Oh well, the thoughts will be there, even if the cards don't get out till 2004! Yowie > Well um .... I took the address list and gave it to one of my employees to add > into a database and she made nice labels (talk about ME being lazy). After that > I had her make up some return address labels and then do something fun to them. > You will have to wait to see..... Hey, why not use the resources, she is hourly > and she had nothing to do except answer the occasional phone call. I was going > to send her home but figured what the heck.... :) Grr, and I just got them all addressed BY HAND! -- Marina, rubbing numb hand and planning to buy a printer for next year I used my own computer expertise and created address labels & return address labels, however I did hand sign all the cards myself, and licked the envelopes (fortunately, no paper cuts;-)... and whatever happened to flavored glue on envelopes???). Those going outside the North American continent are getting posted Friday, the rest in a week. SignatureThe ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)? http://www.geocities.com/the_magic_mood_jeep/ http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep > > Well um .... I took the address list and gave it to one of my employees to > add [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > -- > Marina, rubbing numb hand and planning to buy a printer for next year |
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