Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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Shirts are here! What happens next.

Shirts are here! So many shirts. A terrifying number of shirts.

What happens next.

1. We keep the boxes closed. Seriously, they are sealed. Because I have cats, and they are long-haired cats, and we need to keep the shirts allergen-free as long as possible.

2. On December 7th, which is a Sunday, we unseal the boxes and spend many, many hours stuffing shirts into envelopes.

3. Because December 7th is a Sunday, we begin mailing on Monday, December 8th. Yes, during the holiday shipping season. Yes, I am unhappy about this. No, there is not another way without keeping all these shirts in my house until January, which isn't fair to any of the people involved.

Shirts will be mailed in batches of twenty (packages, not necessarily individual shirts), with no more than five international shirts per batch. This is out of mercy to my post office. There are 402 shirts total. Assuming an average of two shirts per package, this gives us 201 packages, or roughly ten days'-worth of trips to the post office. I'm hoping to be done with mailing by December 19th. This should get them to most US addresses by Christmas.

As noted before, shirts will not be mailed with tracking numbers, and I will not be able to tell you which batch your shirt is in.

Shirts!
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Shirt Stuffing at Seanan's is on my calendar. Can't wait to see you!
It's gonna be fun!
Wow! I'd never thought of consideration to the post office. That's super nice! Please be sure to be considerate of yourself too.
It's both for the clerks and for the other customers. I don't want to be lynched.
Seanan, if you need an extra set of hands to help with stuffing envelopes, please let me know. I'm in the East Bay myself and would love a chance to help you out for all the hours of pleasure you've given me with you stories.
I think we're good, but thank you so much for the offer!
Thank you so much (and your PAs and your shirt stuffers) for doing this!

And thank you to Alice & Thomas for not ripping open the boxes and claiming the shirts as cat toys!
They are being THOROUGHLY bribed.

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Yay!
Wheeeeee!
So many shirts.

docpockets

2 years ago

I do not have a shirt in this race, so to speak, but I wanted to wish you good luck with all this logistical stuff.
So much logistics.
Thanks.
Que la...?

adafrog

2 years ago

Yay, shirts! Good luck with everything! I wish I lived closer so I could help you out!
I just wish you lived closer!

calico_reaction

1 year ago

Happy dance! Thank you so much, and a big thank you to all the stuffing minions.
They were awesome.
Looking forward to seeing the shirt!


(And now I will go off and forget about it entirely again, so it comes as a pleasant surprise whenver it gets here and I'm not champing at the bit meanwhile. I do appreciate that you warned us from the beginning that it would take a while and might be subject to delay, so that I have been able to mostly forget about them and just be able to briefly think "Oh yay, I'm getting a cool shirt!" whenever the topic does come up.)
Just think, in a couple of weeks, you could say, "Yesterday, December seventh, twenty-fourteen -- a date which will live in infamy . . . "

Okay, I'll stop with my FDR impression.
Shirt!

Snrk.
Yaaaaaaaaaay!

I'm excited to have a holiday tshirt surprise coming sometime in not too far away future. :)

Whee!
Good luck with this mighty endeavour! I wish I lived closer; envelope stuffing and checklists are totally in my wheelhouse. (Or I could keep the cats entertained in another room.)
All these things would have been awesome. <3