Intrepid_Chef
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Well, PC has shipped my 4/30 show, containing 2 small orders I combined b/c the guest whined about a measly $4.25 shipping.
In the interim, I prepared my "motherless day" project. (Every year I go out of my way to do something special for someone who has either lost a mother, is estranged from her or just can't be near her ... and usually doesn't have kids either, just a way of getting through the day by helping others.)
This year, since the package was going to California, I moved away from a potted plant or cut flowers and instead went with 2 dozen home-baked, chocolate chip cookies.
Guess how much it cost to send a small tin, cookies in a ziplock inside the tin, and a card?
$10.70. That's right, more than DOUBLE what these two guests would have paid had they done their orders separate!
In the interim, I prepared my "motherless day" project. (Every year I go out of my way to do something special for someone who has either lost a mother, is estranged from her or just can't be near her ... and usually doesn't have kids either, just a way of getting through the day by helping others.)
This year, since the package was going to California, I moved away from a potted plant or cut flowers and instead went with 2 dozen home-baked, chocolate chip cookies.
Guess how much it cost to send a small tin, cookies in a ziplock inside the tin, and a card?
$10.70. That's right, more than DOUBLE what these two guests would have paid had they done their orders separate!
)People are just self-centered sometimes and don't really pay attention to other things around them or what they really pay. You/We just happen to be someone they can direct it to at that moment. I had a Mary-kay consultant get snippy with me because I wouldn't give her free shipping on direct orders under $50 or $100 (don;t remember which). She said "I do it for MY customers.". I said "I can't afford to do that., sorry." She walked away...I was happy.