[Official] Source Secret Santa 2014

[Zombiesquisher]

Still nothing...

[Fry]

Hoping that by the end of the week it gets to me, but if not. It's been great seeing what everyone has been getting.

[Kathal]

Still nothing :cry:

Greetings,
Kathal

[Zombiesquisher]

Same boat man, this year was a bust. Tried contacting my SS and no reply. Think I got screwed... Always next year though... :cry:

[Kathal]

Same boat man, this year was a bust. Tried contacting my SS and no reply. Think I got screwed... Always next year though... :cry:

Don't even know, who my SS was, but yeah, it was a bust. BUT this will not prevent me from joining this year again, since I love the idea :smile:

Greetings,
Kathal

[Fry]

I also never got a package, but this is the third year I've taken part, and I am not going to let one bad year keep me from next year!

[Valtrix]

I apologize to anybody who didn't get a package. There was one person this year that never actually sent out. Everybody else either posted in the thread, contacted me here, or I got in contact with through another channel and heard from them. There were way more people who had issues with shipping--at least four people talked to me about packages returned back to them for various reasons.

I'm not entirely sure how to handle the situations where people have told me they've sent packages out but their person didn't receive. In the future I believe we should require shipping tracking from everybody. The alternative contacts helped me for several people, but getting a way to actually verify if packages were sent (and where they might be) seems important.

[Lemnear]

I apologize to anybody who didn't get a package. There was one person this year that never actually sent out. Everybody else either posted in the thread, contacted me here, or I got in contact with through another channel and heard from them. There were way more people who had issues with shipping--at least four people talked to me about packages returned back to them for various reasons.

I'm not entirely sure how to handle the situations where people have told me they've sent packages out but their person didn't receive. In the future I believe we should require shipping tracking from everybody. The alternative contacts helped me for several people, but getting a way to actually verify if packages were sent (and where they might be) seems important.

People ship (partly worldwide) without insurance or tracking?

I've never considered this being required, but for the next year people should be able to deliver tracking Codes + Delivery service as a Testament of shipping if they want to participate :(

What percentage of participants are we even talking about? Seems at least 3. forks and torches for the one who didn't sent out.

[Sloshthedark]

People ship (partly worldwide) without insurance or tracking?

I've never considered this being required, but for the next year people should be able to deliver tracking Codes + Delivery service as a Testament of shipping if they want to participate :(

What percentage of participants are we even talking about? Seems at least 3. forks and torches for the one who didn't sent out.

more valuable cards than SSS are sent untracked and uninsured...

there were no backups this year?

[Lemnear]

more valuable cards than SSS are sent untracked and uninsured...

there were no backups this year?

Why a backup Santa if people claim to sent out packages in time? Shipping cards for free around mid to end of January (not to talk about getting the right cards) is somewhat strange. :/

[Quasim0ff]

Still waiting on sss :(

[Valtrix]

I apologize to anybody that didn't receive gifts this year. I will do my best to keep trying to figure out the status of the package, but there's only so much I can do do. At this point I would say that if somebody does not have a package not to expect one. There were issues with a lot of people's packages this year (for example, somebody's package just got to them now). So looking forward for next year I believe there should be more shipping guidelines. We should also consider tracking numbers, not because of fear of people not sending, but just due to the myriad of issues people had this year.

I did my best to organize to avoid issues, but again I apologize to anybody that didn't receive anything this year.

[Quasim0ff]

Pretty amazing, this many problems with shipping...

I'm basically shipping cards to the states about 10 times a month, the last 6 months, and I have yet to lose ANY package...

HOWEVER; Amazing job Valtrix! :)

[Zombiesquisher]

I tried to contact my SS personally however he seems less than willing to help figure out the issue and has never responded. Leads me to believe he never sent anything.

[Fry]

I've stopped hoping for my SSS package to come, pretty sure it wasn't sent with the little info I have. I think that in the future it would be an excellent idea to use tracking numbers for the shipments, it helps with accountability that the packages have been sent and gives the recipient an ETA.

[Bed Decks Palyer]

I did not join the SSS this Christmas, and I won't join this year. I don't need anything, but also because I like the idea of sending small gifts without excepting anything in return.
Speaking of that, I sent a Super Secret Source's Santa package on 11th December and it never reached its destination; tracking number surely didn't help. Seeing how the guy haven't joined the Source for more than three months, I guess he's dead.

[Lemnear]

I've stopped hoping for my SSS package to come, pretty sure it wasn't sent with the little info I have. I think that in the future it would be an excellent idea to use tracking numbers for the shipments, it helps with accountability that the packages have been sent and gives the recipient an ETA.


I tried to contact my SS personally however he seems less than willing to help figure out the issue and has never responded. Leads me to believe he never sent anything.

Gentlemen, I hope your SSS were not of the suspicious kind like Winter '14 Accounts with less than 10 Posts which I had a bad gut feeling about as I saw them posting in the SSS thread to participate. Without naming names (because I KINDA don't want to turn this into a witchhunt), how did contacting turn out this year if problems occured? Did people try to help or was the classic no-response-because-it's-a-double-account or "i sent! Get lost!" among the common ones?

Again: sorry for everyone :(

[Valtrix]

The people that were risks were all paired with each other--I let everybody in this category know that there might be a bit more risk. Out of the 5 people in this category, only one person was a problem. Again though, people say they've sent packages. I don't have a mechanism to actually know this or not, which is why tracking should be important next year just for verification. Truthfully though the problems are not from malice, but just from laziness. The one guy who didn't actually send his package out I called in person and he told me that he just wasn't keeping up with Magic lately (and in fact wanted to drop out at like the beginning of January, and had his gift ready to return because it was unopened). In most cases I think this is the issue where people just aren't keeping up on the Source or with magic, not because of some kind of malicious "well I just want stuff for free" kind of mindset.

[Kathal]

The people that were risks were all paired with each other--I let everybody in this category know that there might be a bit more risk. Out of the 5 people in this category, only one person was a problem. Again though, people say they've sent packages. I don't have a mechanism to actually know this or not, which is why tracking should be important next year just for verification. Truthfully though the problems are not from malice, but just from laziness. The one guy who didn't actually send his package out I called in person and he told me that he just wasn't keeping up with Magic lately (and in fact wanted to drop out at like the beginning of January, and had his gift ready to return because it was unopened). In most cases I think this is the issue where people just aren't keeping up on the Source or with magic, not because of some kind of malicious "well I just want stuff for free" kind of mindset.

The problem with tracking is, that if the package changes countries many companies doesn't/can't update their tracking anymore. This happened to me several times, and it also happened with my package when I shipped it to the USA (the tracking only worked as long as it was in Europe).

Greetings,
Kathal

[Bed Decks Palyer]

The problem with tracking is, that if the package changes countries many companies doesn't/can't update their tracking anymore. This happened to me several times, and it also happened with my package when I shipped it to the USA (the tracking only worked as long as it was in Europe).

Greetings,
Kathal

This might be the reason why the status of my envelope doesn't change ever since it left Europe. However, I'd guess that it wouldn't take two months to complete a EU-US trip, unless they're using post doves.

[useL]

This might be the reason why the status of my envelope doesn't change ever since it left Europe. However, I'd guess that it wouldn't take two months to complete a EU-US trip, unless they're using post doves.



Easily solved. Go to the foreign countries own postal system and type in your tracking number there. It will most likely show up a couple of days after it has left your country.

[Quasim0ff]

This might be the reason why the status of my envelope doesn't change ever since it left Europe. However, I'd guess that it wouldn't take two months to complete a EU-US trip, unless they're using post doves.

Have you tried "track-trace.com"?

[Bed Decks Palyer]

Oh thanks!

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Notice Left (No Authorized Recipient Available)
Kinda sucks. I hope that they at least return it back to me... :frown:

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Your item was delivered at 10:30 am on December 27, 2014 in FORT WASHINGTON, PA 19034.
Lol, I missed the next line. :laugh:
Otoh it's a bit saddening that there was no mention of the package neither here nor in the bragging thread. :really:

[Quasim0ff]

Oh thanks!

edit:

Kinda sucks. I hope that they at least return it back to me... :frown:

edit2:

Lol, I missed the next line. :laugh:
Otoh it's a bit saddening that there was no mention of the package neither here nor in the bragging thread. :really:
I always use track-trace, as you can see (from your country) when it leaves europe and reaches their country with 1 click :p

[Sloshthedark]

Oh thanks!

edit:

Kinda sucks. I hope that they at least return it back to me... :frown:

edit2:

Lol, I missed the next line. :laugh:
Otoh it's a bit saddening that there was no mention of the package neither here nor in the bragging thread. :really:

Oh, that's sucks this was a true santa gift and remained secret :(

[Bed Decks Palyer]

Oh, that's sucks this was a true santa gift and remained secret :(
Maybe we'll hear from the member lately, but I'm afraid he's either gone or something bad happened... :cry: