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Hey can anyone confirm if these were shipped via courier or via mail? I suspect mail, as i'm in canada and canada post is on strike. but i want to make sure that is where it is stuck vs just lost. Thanks!
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Just got my calendars today I love them they’re very nice. Just one piece of feedback they were just shipped with an address label stuck right on the plastic.so it wasn’t in an envelope or anything like. Has been in the past. That’d normally be fine but it ruined the surprise as one of them was a gift for someone I live with. And they saw it the moment they got the mail. If they get shipped that way maybe next year there could be an option to hide it in an envelope on shipping. I wouldn’t mind if it cost a little more for that. Or a heads up if it’s being shipped without a package to hide it so I can get a PO Box or figure something out. Just a request for next time! Thank you for the calendars!
Project Update: Calendars Shipped!
Just a quick check-in to let you know everything going on.
Calendars have been produced and was shipped to most backers (546 | 81% ) who filled out the surveys before the deadline. Next time I'm going to try and get more time between survey and address...which means i still need to run the calendar campaign a week or two earlier. The rest of the calendars were shipped to the warehouse and are arriving this week.
In addition, sticker sheets have already arrived at the warehouse.
Ive uploaded orders to our new Baby Bestiary shopify backend where the warehouse is already beginning to pick and pack sticker orders. They're also prepping for the orders that missed the initial shipout (and combining with stickers where possible).
I wish i could post pictures, but I too will be getting my calendars this week, and need the warehouse to send me my own set of stickers to take pictures with.
So things are moving, and should be getting to everyone before the new year! (unlike last years gold foil chaos).
Also, funny enough, when we introduced the stickers, I thought i might be only ordering ~200 sheets or so....
as surveys got filled out, i realized i was very...very wrong. Turns out you guys ordered a total of 735 sticker sheets! (so i ordered a few extra, 900), I'm just happy i was able to update that number before they started working on it so I didn't have to do a re-order.
calendars coming very soon!
Project Update: Survey Is Out!
Just wanted to let you know, the backerkit survey is out! And production has started. (if you need a link to the survey try here https://baby-bestiary-2025-calendar.backerkit.com/)
We're doing something a little different this year, we're going to have the manufacturer of the calendars ship directly to the backers, this should cut down our processing time quite a bit, almost 2-3 weeks, since now our warehouse doesn't have to receive, get packaging, print labels, and ship each calendar..so this will be a great time save (assuming things go well). The tradeoff is two-fold:
- We'll need your survey filled out/addresses pretty quickly, (this is mostly my fault in getting things up and running.)
- Our manufacturer does not do stickers, which means we'll be shipping them out to you separately separately.
stickers can be found in the survey and are in packs of 1,3,5,10 (tried to make it easy for what you need).
As for timing...in order for me to get addresses to the manufacturer (to not prevent any delays), it would be nice to have your surveys filled out by Thursday Oct 31st. Granted most typically fill in the survey in the first three days, but this will allow me to get a first wave of shipments going with the manufacturer. Ideally after that point, I can get the remaining submitted on Nov 4th. From there, it really depends on how fast the manufacturer ships. My guess is, after the full shipments go out they'll ship the remaining to our warehouse and our warehouse will then process any remaining shipments from that point on (and they will have a faster turnaround because there will be ~20 orders that might fall behind), as opposed to slating out and shipping 800.
Thats all for now, and thank you so much for the feedback on the calendar!
Andreas
Project Update: Draft Calendar
Sorry for the delay, Just wrapped up the design, and will be sending to the printer shortly (also will be opening up bacerkit in a moment so i can collect address and such.
gonna try something new this year and ship out directly from the printer, which would reduce the time from traveling to our warehouse and them prepping and packing...so hopefully saves some time.
but the only snag is they do not do stickers...so we'd have to do those separately (which should be ok, since we can put those in simple letter envelopes.
If there's anything you want to see added (or needs fixing let me know),
ill be sending out a proper final pdf once we get into backerkit (which ill be submitting tomorrow for approval)
Andreas
