'Tis the season

[fenchurch]

I just got the next to last batch of cards out in the mail!

I did a final tally and between relatives and friends, we're sending out around 75 cards this year! Yowza! Not bad considering last year was the first year we managed to send out *any*. At this point, the only cards left to go are for a few people I added to the list a bit late (after running out of cards), and some relatives I don't see very often and want to actually tell them what we're up to nowadays (IOW, I need to take the time to print up some sort of letter).

Hopefully, I haven't missed anybody... and there may be one or two of you who get two cards, because about halfway through the process, I lost track of what I had done and sent (I did mention this is only the second year I've done this, didn't I?). I figure next year I should have a whole system developed for doing this...

I also braved the post office and got a few packages sent... those self-help kiosks are wonderful, even if they are a bit clunky. It would have been much nicer and more efficient if I could have run more than one transaction at a time... especially where I was paying with my debit card.

Comments

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Congrats on being organized! I'm ALMOST to that point! :) Barb needs to get ink for her printer so we can get our labels printed, though (the program we print labels on, sadly, isn't on my machine, although that might be cheaper than two ink cartidges--she has one of those annoying printers that won't take generics).

The self-help kiosk at our USPS allows more than one transaction (in fact, one time someone ahead of me didn't close out and I accidentally charged my transaction to THEIR ATM card!). At the end it asks, "can I help with anything else" or some such, and you just click "yes" to continue.

If you leave that screen up (as now I know), then the next person up could click "yes" and get their package mailed on your dime. The next time I used it I noted that and saved the person ahead of me from having the same problem happen.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Ours asked that too, but only after the previous transaction had been paid for and was completed. Now I'm wondering if they've changed it because they had too many people walk off like that...