Yes, Sue, sometimes an exchange item disappears into a black hole. In the early days, I coordinated many exchanges. There were times when something was mailed and never arrived. As coordinator, I usually had an extra item or two to fill in when one went missing. Usually all were received safe and sound. These days, we don't have many mailed items that go astray. We have also had items that seemed to be missing, and then turned up in a neighbor's mail -- and the neighbor was very slow in passing it on. Also, air mail items have been put on ships so spent a month at sea before being delivered.
One thing I learned was not to put fancy stamps on letters or packages going to South Africa or some eastern European countries. People liked the stamps so much that they stole the letters for the stamps. On my things, I learned to ask the post office to just print the postage amount with their dull, uninteresting stamper. When I did that, the items were received. The saddest story was the missing items tracked to the planes that crashed into the twin towers in New York. No one likes to think their hard work was destroyed. Well the time for mailing the motif exchanges is coming soon. Mine's not quite done so I need to get back to work on it. Alice in Oregon -- where I'm recovering from 10 days of 9-14 hours a day at county fair. Big sigh of relief -- it's done for this year. Now I just have to survive the madhouse of the total eclipse over my area in 2 weeks. Wouldn't it be ironic if we had a storm that covered the whole area that day! - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
