Update on our school supply packing
Well, my dining room is very full of boxes right now, and we only have 1/3 of the supplies here. We are realizing now that a lot of the boxes have items too large to put into the flat rate boxes. We do have a few flat rates packed from another huge bag of various school supplies that were donated through my church. S, the flat rate postage you sent will still be used to ship the supplies. I may have to put them on some of the large boxes and then pay the difference. On some of the larger boxes (these have plastic zip binders) it is cheaper to send them as boxed. If we were to unbox them and send them flat rate it would take 2 flat rate boxes per carton to ship… as it is with its weight it costs 11.95 to ship the crate.
So, we are trying to be wise, but we want to get this stuff ready to fully ship ASAP. I also think that shipping it out in phases will be better. So, today I hope to ship out phase one, which will include about 17 crates and 3 flat rate boxes.
Mike’s Cpt. has been alerted to the shipment (he is who we are sending it to since Mike is here), and I swear that man is going to get a huge box of goodies when this is all sent over. Mike said that they are all excited to get the shipment so they can take it to the school and give it to the teachers to pass out to the students. They are promising some pictures, and I owe a few here as well. We’ll take some pics of our first trip to the Post Office - I will be sure to get a picture of the clerk’s face when they see our load come in through the door.
Note to self: Stop and get a very nice gift basket for postal workers before ruining their day with massive shipment. ;)
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