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DustyDave
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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I've got to agree about the lack of photos. I was watching the thread for a week after hopeful that I'd see more piccies of what people had received. No such luck. I haven't counted the number of people who posted pics because it will just depress me. Maybe we could make it a condition of taking part next year - you have to post a photo. Despite this thread still going on there are many who still aren't posting photos.
Despite all that I did enjoy taking part this year. It tested my skills and I also got some nice gifts out of it.
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Mr Ed
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| DustyDave wrote: | | I haven't counted the number of people who posted pics because it will just depress me. |
I hadn't either, but your comment made me curious.
Of 40 entrants, pictures were posted by 26, which is 65%
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wobblycogs
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| wow, that's actually a lot better than I thought it was. Would be nice to achieve somewhere in the 80s though. |
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Trizza
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:33 am Post subject: |
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Perhaps one way forward is to require tracking codes in the future, which will be sent to the organiser, that way we can be sure that its been sent and track it without getting into whether to trust people's word. Though, that wouldn't help track down people who don't mail things at all..
Personally I'll definitely take part again next year (if foreigners will still be welcome) - I'm already making plans!  |
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pedder
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 10:54 am Post subject: |
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| Trizza wrote: |
Personally I'll definitely take part again next year (if foreigners will still be welcome) - I'm already making planes! |
fixed it for you!
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laird
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Bet you were starting to doubt my word Trizza Tracked package sent on the 6th Dec., arrived with you when? mid January?
DITH even I was starting to doubt my word 
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Mr Ed
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:45 am Post subject: |
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The vagaries of the postal system seem to be the main issue with Secret Santa running smoothly, but its difficult to see what can be done about that.
I thought about a Secret Santa Bash, where you turn up with the gift and exchange with whoever makes it there with a gift on that day. The issue is that lots of people would end up being excluded for reason of geography.
One solution is to set a mandatory post date (early enough to miss the Xmas rush) but getting 40 independent people around Europe to all do that to a common date is probably wishful thinking.
I am sure Waka will come up with some process improvements in due course.
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studders
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| Mr Ed wrote: |
I am sure Waka will come up with some process improvements in due course.
Ed |
I'm sure he said that anyone who doesn't get their SS gift this year can pick any Plane from his cabinet as consolation.
Very generous if you ask me. |
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Escudo
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with Dave a condition of entering the event should be a requirement to post a picture of the present received. Not much to ask.
Like others I find this the best part of what is a worthwhile forum event. Looking at what others have received, and the gifts made is good fun and quite exciting.
I am definitely in for next year, hope I draw Ed, so I can push the boat out to make something nice, given the lovely gift he made this year.
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Mattty
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| big soft moose wrote: | | wizer wrote: | | Pete your the most unlucky person I know in terms of postal services..... |
tell me about it - i'm still waiting for an amazon order which is nearly two weeks over due so the incoming service is a poor as the outgoing ,plus today i found, by chance, a seperate amazon order that the muppet from dhl had put somewhere "safe" for safe keeping but not indicated where on the card - lucky i did as the safe place he had chosen was in the ****ing wheelie bin
I will admit that sometimes i am also somewhat disorganised in sending stuff out - to whit your cheque for those chisels, and the turning gouge i said i'd post to riley, which comes from having a busy life, a lot of stress and a long commute - however this isnt the case with blisters secret santa - that was made and despatched in ample time, its just that a range of couriers have been unable to deliver the flipping thing.
I dont do lame excuses - if i say its a postal problem, its a postal problem - if it was me being a muppet i'd stand up and say so, and I also do what i say i'll do (all be it sometimes eventually), blister will get his damn secret santa even if i have to drive to dagenham and deliver the sodding thing myself |
Which postal companys did you use BSM?
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big soft moose
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| Mattty wrote: |
Which postal companys did you use BSM? |
the first time i sent it it was via the royal snail, recorded delivery - that came back marked undeliverable
the second time was also royal mail but i used special delivery for a faster turnround in the hope of getting there in the festive season - that came back undeliverable also
at this point ed checked with blister that the adress was right , which it was, and the third time i sent it using DHL
as i heard nothing for a while i assumed that it had been delivered, but it transpired eventually that dhl had tried to deliver it, but no one was in and they had left a card for collection or redelivery as the item is too big to go through the letterbox. When blister didnt contact them after a reasonable period they returned the parcel to me.
Its hard to say where the problem lies - given that dhl found the address i think we can assume that the address given is correct - but the question then is what happened to the "we tried to deliver today" card and why redelivery or collection wasnt arranged (i'm assuming that blister didnt get the card for some reason rather than that he got it but failed to sort it out)
I'm now out of ideas and sick of spending money on couriers for no result - it may be that blister is rarely in (as i understand that he drives a lorry for a living) in which case it isnt really the couriers fault, and this is also the reason why i'm not going to drive to dagenham to deliver it myself unless/untiul he replies to my pm and we arrange a suitable time.
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Trizza
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| pedder wrote: | | fixed it for you! |
Shh! Don't spoil it! 
| laird wrote: | Bet you were starting to doubt my word Trizza Tracked package sent on the 6th Dec., arrived with you when? mid January?
DITH even I was starting to doubt my word |
Yeah I was a little :$ When it arrived neither SWMBO or I could believe the postmark - they must have taken it the long way around the planet or something |
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