Wed, Nov 21 2007

Jess and I just finished packing, labeling, and shipping the 3200 Ravelry T-Shirts that we sold in Sept. and Oct. Oh my god. We are never doing that again.

(Don't ask about Cafe Press - 1. I'm an ornery bastard, 2. we preferred to support a small printing business, 3. we were particular about our merchandise and 4. they charge a lot) Next time I'll look into the Shopify + Shipwire combo.

We've been working on Ravelry full time since June-ish and many folks from the press have asked us what our biggest challenges, obstacles, mistakes etc were. We didn't have a good answer until now. Seriously, this shirt thing was ridiculous.

Oh - and for Bostonites - here is a little something that I learned. Did you know that there is a 24 hour post office at South Station? They even let us back up to the loading dock on the rare nights that we arrived before 8 PM.

7 comments...
From: davido <>
Subject:
reminds me of http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HowToShipAnything.html
From: Christopher <http://xtopher.net>
Subject:
ha ha i was about to comment with the same link. Small business right of passage maybe?
From: Vis Major <www.vismajor.net>
Subject:
How on earth did you manage to keep your cool with the folks who were asking for more t-shirts? Glad you got them all shipped before the holiday. Hope you get to relax a bit now...
From: Amy in Somerville <mailto:afinlarc@yahoo.com>
Subject:
thanks for the heads-up on the post office. That is really good to know with Christmas season approaching.....
From: haptotrope (in somerville) <haptotrope.etsy.com>
Subject: shipping party!
yanno... if you want to do the shirts again, you could call a boston yarn and shirt packing party... give pizza and a free shirt to whomever showed... and voila. heck, I'd show. But then I volunteer for things.
From: Jessica <mailto:o_gliasain@yahoo.com>
Subject: T-Shirt Printing
My cousin runs his own printing business, and he takes his quality very seriously - it becomes much more important when you're actually printing each shirt by your own hand! We're in Ohio, but I'm sure he could send samples and whatnot, and you might be able to work something out to "outsource" the shipping to him as well. Just an idea, always happy to plug small businesses!!
From: babybetty <mailto:dbjanzen@comcast.net>
Subject:
I have a Boston Terrier too. Aren't they the greatest. Yours is WAY cute
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