The T-SHIRTS HAVE ARRIVED!

[cobraF100]

Those T's LOOK NICE...

Can't wait to get them...

[FORDification]

Well, Mary and I got started about 9:30 Saturday night getting the shirts packaged up and were at it until 4AM Sunday morning, but we got everything done and ready to go to the post office. I left early from work today to get them there before 5 (since that's our only daily pickup)...but we discovered a major screwup.

When I ordered the envelopes that these are getting mailed in, I got them directly from the USPS site and they were shipped directly to my house. However, I accidently ordered the Express Mail envelopes instead of the Priority Mail versions....and whereas the Priority Mail envelopes will cost $4-$5 each to send, the Express Mail pieces would cost me roughly $13-$15 each! OUCH! Fortunately, the post office here had just received a case of the correct ones, so Mary and I will just have to repackage everything. We'll just insert the old envelopes into the new ones, to speed things up....which will also have the added benefit of everything essentially being 'double-bagged' for protection against damage during shipment. So when you all get your shirts, you'll have to open one envelope, pull the second one out and then open THAT one too.

Also, we discovered a couple errors in a few shirts, so those will be going back to be replaced. This will affect the orders for three people, and I'll be PM'ing you to let you know who you are. Sorry about that....but at least this one wasn't my fault!

There will be about a dozen orders that will be going out on tomorrow's mail truck, these orders were a few that were specifically requested to be expedited...and Mary will get those done and to the post office while I'm at work tomorrow. Tomorrow night she and I will sit down and repackage all the others, so they should be going out on Wednesday.

So anyway, by this time next week everyone who ordered a shirt will have them. About that time, I will edit the T-shirt Info page and will begin selling the extras there. I ordered 50 extra shirts, and I think 45 of them are either Large or Extra-Large, since that was the bulk of the main order anyway. I will also begin listing one a week on E-bay.

I can say that this whole adventure wasn't as bad as I thought it would be....for the most part things went fairly smoothly. So I'd say the possibility of us doing this again in the future (with a different design) is very good.

[GT-Racer]

Kinda like Christmas. Great news. You say double bagged for protection? Something against us postal workers? Its not my fault when I was trained they said F_R_A_G_I_L_E ment throw hard against wall to check for rattles.

Thanks Keith and thank the misses for us too.

[1968Ranger]

Also, we discovered a couple errors in a few shirts, so those will be going back to be replaced. This will affect the orders for three people, and I'll be PM'ing you to let you know who you are.

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NO PM Yahoo

[flyboy2610]

Kinda like Christmas. Great news. You say double bagged for protection? Something against us postal workers? Its not my fault when I was trained they said F_R_A_G_I_L_E ment throw hard against wall to check for rattles.

Thanks Keith and thank the misses for us too.

I thought Fragile meant it came from Italy?

[Comet]

That's great Keith! If these extra shirts go fast, maybe next time you could order 100 extras. The little profit you make could help site maintenance costs.

[hardtailjohn]

You and your wife are AWESOME, Keith! Anytime you venture up into this neck of the woods, I'm buying you two the best steak dinner you've had!!
John H.

[rjewkes]

Wow Cool Shirts hey what are we talking in price for one or even two of the XLT(XL) Size shirts when you have extra? I want at least one and maybe two. You one for show and one for keeping plastic wrapped.

[FORDification]

I haven't actually decided on a price yet, and probably won't until the current orders are completely shipped out. Then I'll sit down and do some numbers-crunching to figure out exactly what they cost, including the printing, shipping, etc. But they'll probably be in the $18-$20 mark, since the extra shirts I have will be sold to help offset the cost of site maintenance. As things are looking right now, I'm actually JUST going to break even with the current order after everything's said and done.

[FORDification]

Well folks, all t-shirts have been shipped out this afternoon. The mail truck just picked them up about 45 minutes ago and headed outta town.

Well, ALMOST all went out...besides the three shirts I mentioned above that will have to be reordered, there was one shirt ordered from Canada that I found will require some extra paperwork completed to ship, so I'll do that this evening and that last shirt will go out tomorrow.

(Now I just have to keep my fingers crossed and hope that I got all the right shirts sent to the right people!)

[heep70]

HURRY UP MAILPERSON!!!!!!! DRIVE FAST!!!!!!!!


I can't wait

[flyboy2610]

Thanks, Keith!
I'm looking forward to it!

[DuckRyder]

Keith, send a freebie over to whats-his-name at FTE!

I'll pay for it if you have "Ken is a poopie head" silk screened on it!

[willowbilly3]

Keith, as usual, you ROCK dude. Thanks to you and Mary for all the hard work. Did you get the pizza?

[FORDification]

Keith, as usual, you ROCK dude. Thanks to you and Mary for all the hard work. Did you get the pizza?

Well, I learned some time ago not to argue with a pregnant woman with sudden cravings, so we ended up getting Chinese. Thanks J.B.