I must still be recovering from Craft Happy, because today I pretty much only got through shipping-related tasks. I can’t believe the week is almost over and I’m still feeling this post-show daze. Augh!
At any rate, I got a PO box today! It was quite easy, nothing at all like Angelina’s experience (though I brought all my business documentation just in case). After the friendly clerk finished checking over the form, he said, “I’ll be right back,” and then disappeared for so long I almost wondered if he’d gone on break. Then he returned and handed me two keys to box #6700. What a nice round number. That box must have been destined for me, because when I first started my shop I wanted to call it The Sixes and Sevens… *cue eerie music* Though I guess really the box number is more accurately described as One Six and One Seven. Hee. Anyway, I’m glad to have a PO box. It was only $6/month, and now I won’t have to put my home address on my mailing list or on packages. I wonder if I should get address labels made…?
I also sent out my very first international order today! I feel like it’s a big milestone, even though at some point I guess sending packages to other countries will become old hat for me (just as printing shipping labels from home is, now). I hope it arrives safely; the Etsy forums are full of international-shipping horror stories! I’d hate my first experience to be a bad one!
I was going to continue yesterday’s shopping entry in this post, but it’s now quite late and I’m getting incoherent, so I’d better leave that for tomorrow or the weekend.
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Congrats on your first international sale!! That’s awesome that you got a PO box. I always wonder whether or not I should put my home address on packages, and I usually end up writing just the city, state, and zip with my business name, but it would be a heckuva lot easier to get a PO box…and I totally never would have thought of that. Duh 😉
Thank you! 🙂 Yeah, at first I was thinking of the PO Box just for the newsletter, but then I realized it’d be great on packages too. (But then I don’t know what would happen if the packages got returned to sender, because doesn’t USPS not allow packages to go to PO boxes? I’ll have to look this up.)