Wednesday

Pat may have sorted out the glitch I was having in my mail delivery system. If I post prior to two it seems like they go out that evening; later than that and it doesn’t seem to come out until the next day. My delivery system is set to New York time so it takes some calculation; I’ll try posting mid-day but some days there may not be much to chat about in the mornings.

But not today. Yesterday I posted a few kits and pattern for sale on a couple of different sites. It didn’t take long before I was being swamped with messages and I was on my computer for most of the afternoon sorting out packages for different addresses. Not everything has sold but there are quite a few items that have been spoken for and I was able to get three packages out in the mail today.

I needed to get an estimate on the postage for these items so I could add that into the e-transfer request to the buyers. I needed a few larger envelopes but I knew I could get them at the post office and get the estimated postage done in one swoop. When I got to the post office it was closed due to computer problems; I knew it was closed yesterday but I thought it would have been fixed by today.

My second thought was I could get the envelopes at Staples and take everything to the postal outlet in the Mall. Staples doesn’t open until ten and it wasn’t even 9:30 yet. But right next door to Staples is the dollar store so I went to get envelopes there – they didn’t have any. So I went across the street to the mall and checked at the postal outlet for envelopes – they were sold out. Walmart was just a short walk away in the mall and I got two different sizes of envelopes just to be sure.

Once everything was in the right packages I went back to the postal outlet to get everything weighed, measured and priced. By this time there was a long lineup and I spent half an hour holding everything in my arms; they were shaky by the time I got through and I’m sure it had nothing to do with my vaccine yesterday. I wasn’t home until about 10:30 and started messaging people about the total cost of their purchases.

And then the return messages started coming in – some with e-transfers and some promising to send money later in the day. For those who sent me payment I hustled to get their packages out in today’s mail so it was back to the postal outlet and another longer line. And I’ll have to do at least some of that again over tomorrow if the promised payments come through. But I think it is worth it to divest myself of some of these things.

Needless to say I haven’t got anything else done today. I hope to get back to some quilting this afternoon. Pat has an event tonight so I might make a bit more progress on a new cross stitch I started yesterday.