Starting to get a bit uneasy

In late October I sent 3 Christmas quilts to be machine quilted to M*. They completed the quilts and sent them back to me on December 9. Everyday I keep looking for them and I realize that the mail is very busy this time of year, maybe its Border Customs, who knows what? I have adjusted my schedule so that I had all my shopping done, I have wrapped all my gifts, decorating done so that I would have the time to bind these quilts before Christmas but they have not arrived. I am not as quick doing it as Bernice who can do 2 queens and a crib in one day. It is nice to have all the other things completed but now I am starting to get nervous as I have 27 coming for Christmas dinner and even tho much of the dinner menu is divvied up between us I will still have things to do in prep the last couple of days. Plus the contractor is still working on our basement so all my sewing stuff is sitting in boxes ready to move into the new room. AND I was going to serve dinner in the new large room we have in the basement.

I am usually so organized that this is making me crazy. I am sure it is no one's fault-just a busy time but the kids may get their quilts unbound. Stay tuned. Film at 11.

Yikes! I would be worried too. Whenever I order gifts or supplies I track the package closely. When I don't get a tracking number or the package doesn't seem to be moving I get very worried. I hope they arrive safe and sound very, very soon.

Grandma Nan, all will be ok. Surely Santa would not let you down. You are so organized that you will have time to finish. Do what you can today and all will fall into place.

The worry is not worth it, don't let it spoil your holiday mood. Have a wonderful Christmas with all that family to surround you.

Louise i do have a tracking number but everything seems to have stopped on the 15th in Chicago. Also things go blurry when it is delivered into Canada as the tracking numbers stop being followed once it leaves the country but I am pretty sure it will be ok. I just don't like leaving things til the last minute so I start to get a bit panicky. I have ordered lots and I mean lots from M* and it has always arrived so I don't think this will be any different.

Thanks Granny Fran- I am sure you are right.

Hey Nancy!!! I think your new name should be "Wonder Woman"... don't know how you do it all!!! and still look picture perfect all the time... Hey gals,, I know this because I've met her at the retreat... Merry Christmas friend... hope the quilts come TODAY!!!! hugs, B

There is always that gap in tracking when our packages go into that black pit of unknown (otherwise known as border/customs). I am sure the package is waiting in a line for someone to figure out what quilting means. Once it clears customs, your package will get to you pretty fast.

I recently brought back some fabric across the border and the customs agent wasn't sure exactly how to classify it. I said it was fabric that I use to make quilts. Poor guy, he had no idea. I finally said-you can make dresses out of the fabric. Ahhhhh, ok.

Sending good vibes, Nan, that they will arrive soon.

I sent a package to someone special in North Carolina and the tracking stopped and I am hoping some day soon I can hear that the package resurfaced and made it to it's destination. Just a real bad time of year for those sorting and distributing our prizes.

Hats off to everyone who works in the postal service who puts up with us this time of year.

Hey Nancy, no doubt the issue of delay will be at the Border Customs. They go crazy this time of year and pretty much everything gets put through the x-ray machines. It's normal to get nervous, but I want you to reconsider how you think of Christmas.....it is not a day, it is a season!!! So think of Christmas as from Dec 20th to December 31'st.....it makes life easier when you don't focus on just a single day. Keeping my fingers crossed your packages arrive in time, but also praying you don't let the stress steal your joy. :icon_hug:

Thanks for the encouraging words folks. I am sure it will arrive and I can't even imagine what the postal workers are going through this time of year. It must be crazy. Well I went out shopping today and there was nothing here when I got home so now pinning my hopes on tomorrow as we are going away for a couple of days and we have a 4 hour car drive each way so I was sure hoping to have my quilts for binding on the drive. Plus my SIL and BIL will be working on Friday and my husband will be visiting his dad so I will have the whole day alone so again I was hoping to put it to good use.
This is one of those things I have to let go because it is totally out of my control and it will arrive when it gets here. Still hoping for tomorrow's mail as we arent leaving until late afternoon.

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Originally Posted by Grandma Nan

Louise i do have a tracking number but everything seems to have stopped on the 15th in Chicago. Also things go blurry when it is delivered into Canada as the tracking numbers stop being followed once it leaves the country but I am pretty sure it will be ok. I just don't like leaving things til the last minute so I start to get a bit panicky. I have ordered lots and I mean lots from M* and it has always arrived so I don't think this will be any different.

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I hadn't thought about the drop of tracking once it got to Canada. Sometimes tracking gives lots of updates and sometimes it seems to "stall". I hope you see your package soon.

Last Christmas I sent a package to Finland and the tracking stopped as soon as it left the states. I shipped it out on Dec 2, and it didn't arrive at the destination until the 24th. I was sweating it big time!
Not to mention the mail clerk (seeing how nervous I was to begin with as it was a hand made item) decided to regale me with a tale of a friend who sent her package over seas, but when the package arrived to where it was going...it had different contents in it!!
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Customs had open the package, but put the wrong item back inside.
So not nice to tell someone mailing a package through customs huh?
Um.....and so not nice of me to relay that story to someone waiting on customs too huh?

**runs for cover before getting splattered with rotten tomatoes..**

Hoping that all is well and your package arrives in time. However, if it does not, please feel free to blame the delay on US Postal Service. In this case, do you have any pictures of the quilts to show? And let them know that as soon as the quilts arrive, you will bind them and send them off? It will extend the Christmas season for them.

Here's another hope that your quilts get back in time. I know that the recipients will be understanding if you aren't able to get them bound in time.
When a package gets "lost" in transport, it can get pretty aggravating, and scary. I had a box of live chickens go missing in the mail. I expected to have a box of dead fuzzy butts when they finally came, but they were all ok. Just took two days longer than it should have.

Oh Nan I am so sorry they have not arrived yet, but I can tell you they are beautiful and I am sure you will be excited when they do arrive. Have a very Merry Christmas