This month is turning out to be a weird ending to what has been a pretty weird year. Honestly, I think we are creeping past "Twilight Zone" levels of weirdness in many aspects. 😞
Looking back, in 2019 I had so many big plans for 2020 for summer vacation, for my birthday, our wedding anniversary, not to mention the dozen events I was going to vend at. Now sitting here so close to the end of 2020 none of that stuff I had planned happened. I got one vending event in early February the whole rest of the year has been a washout.
The pandemic has been hard on everyone, many small businesses have struggled or gone under this year. I know my business has been less than half of previous years online sales and with no in person events that is another huge loss. Lucky for me my household income is not reliant on my craft business or we'd be homeless and bankrupt for sure. 😕
The last order I shipped is in some sort of weird postal limbo. ~sigh~ I know with increased package volume, holiday shopping and the pandemic it's like a trifecta of postal delays and disruption. My buyer is being very understanding but I am starting to get frustrated. I shipped the package on the 1st it was only 600-ish miles I could have driven it there myself in 8.5 hours and it's been 11 days now and the tracking has no updates since the 5th and that entry had no location. 😒 So literally only God knows where that package is and I pray that it gets where it's supposed to soon because I cannot re-make the one of a kind trees. I could try to re-make similar replacements but it would take me a week+ and they would not be the same. It is very rare for me to have packages not get where they are going in a few days, I ship everything with tracking for a reason. So early this week when I went to check on this order and got a message on USPS.com that the whole bloody tracking system was down. . .😨
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