Sometimes being an Aries, and a bit stubborn, as is my partner in life and in SMO88, also, I have to admit, he is sometimes right!
I got an "I told you so" moment this morning after I got back from taking a parcel ( pair of socks) to the postal outlet to mail.
Let me back track a bit. When we first started this little business venture, I went to our local postal outlet and told them the circumstances of what we would be doing, and what we would be mailing occasionally. It was recommended to me to buy envelopes, first the bubble kind which I tried a few times, and I did not like them. Then it was recommended to me to buy the cardboard photo envelopes and mail them that way. So up until this December of 2013 that was my method of shipping sock pairs in Canada and the USA. In December I got a request to mail out a pair of Men's size 12 socks, and I knew they would not fit comfortably in the either mailer. I decided to go with just trying the concept of wrapping them in brown paper and mailing that way. They went quite a bit cheaper and I was happy because of that. Today I mailed another pair, much smaller size to the USA also, and wrapped and mailed them in brown paper as well. I was tickled pink to know they went out too, as a small package with no problems and less costly. I shared this info with MrB upon getting home, and of course his reaction was, "I told you so!" Yup, he told me so, in the very beginning that I should have mailed the sock pairs that way. Well I didn't listen to him, I listened to the postal expert! I am now thinking that the postal people wanted me to buy the envelopes so that they would gain more money from selling their products. They got 2 years of extra money from me and our customers. From now on I will be mailing the sock pairs wrapped nicely and neatly in the traditional brown paper. And I don't have buy brown paper as I save large paper bags that I receive, free of charge when buying products from our local NSLC. That kind of makes me laugh, but I am doing my good deed by recycling too! Now everyone will be happy, me, MrB (as he has a smile on his face, thinking I told you so) and our customers! The only party who may not be as happy is Canada Post! So the moral of this story is, perhaps you should not just take their word for it, and try different options and see which one best suits mailing your product. See which one best works for YOU! Now here I am again, blogging and telling you that there are always little changes along the way to be made to improve your service or improve operations to make things easier for everyone involved. Even for the habitual type people like me, that sometimes buck change, and get the, "I told you so!" Just smile and carry on...... Oh, and by the way, this change also prompted me to make yet another change on our website. I am getting so good at tweaking the website and facebook page lately. But you already know that as we have discussed that previously. It's a good CHILLY WILLY Day here in Nova Scotia, Canada at -10C (14F) so I am going to have something hot to drink, and keep warm indoors, now that my postal errand is complete.
