Murf,
It wouldn't have mattered to me...especially since
mail service has only been recently resored here. Had
quite an adventure trying to mail a package
Thursday...only one post office open in the area, and
then they had only ONE worker working...finally gave
up and sent it through one of those commercial mail
places for a little extra.
Mark Delaney
--- David Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Swappers,
Let me finally post after an exhausting work schedule
about a few things lest I hurt feelings or have
irritated anyone with certain things regarding the
IOFF swap I hosted and the Mayfly swap I delayed a
month. So busy that I only got to read a sample of
posts briefly about 4 a.m. those mornings I could with
a surprising surge of responsibilities running the
company.
First, sincere apologies to all for repeatedly
promising dates and never meeting them. Special
apologies to one I chided for timeliness who had to
drop out. Second, my billing as an experienced
swapmeister....actually, it has been some years since
my last hosting duties and Rodney really made me
realize I missed the boat by not forming a little
database to communicate off-list. A few tyers I
really thought were in never came through most likely
due to my not contacting them directly. In the end,
my error helped reduce the swappers from 35 to 29.
The one thing I did pay attention to was how the other
swapmeisters controlled their swaps. To alleviate
some of the pain, we got some neat prizes from Line's
End and Murf's obsession chest finding little things
cheap to turn into flys, use streamside, etc. The
prizes were awarded based on three criteria. The size
of the return packaging, guessing who had everything
already and what happened to come out of the box when
I got to each envelope (too big to fit & it moved to
the next one...hope Tony likes the minnow bucket).
Some of you have everything imaginable and are getting
something I hope brings tears to your eyes. ;-) The
prizes vary greatly in value and have no bearing on
how nice your fly was or how many extra you tied DonO,
Joyce, et al. so don't be upset that you got a patch
of fur instead of the Winstod rod....whoa! There is
no rod but Byard had some stuff you might be able to
use and Walmart had an expensive product which will
tie a few ants. I want you to know that I put out 33
cents AMERICAN for a sheet but some only got 8.175692
cents worth due to size.
IF YOU DID N-O-T recieve a prize (we recounted flys so
much we lost track), let me know and include your
snail addy. If you got a crappy fly of mine, a
certain non-FFer thought some of my experimental
throw-ways were buggier looking than the pattern that
was supposed to be sent so let me know and I'll send
you another. Plenty of extras tied beyond what I
should have from the 3 sets of 35 I tied. The first 5
of each version are not as good as the last 30 so I'll
hand pick these. The uglies WILL catch trout though
so use em.
Before you all get antsy about the dates being spread
out on arrival, I based the shipping method on what
was realistic for the package weight and destination
or used the supplied postage of the swapper. Certain
extras kept me busy and some were due before the swap
began which put me back even more. The last few
packages have "time-sensitive" materials in them and
leave tomorrow except for one which I'll die if I
can't get this right and out on Monday.
NEXT...the pic page collage and recognition.
Lastly, Rodney's Mayflys will go out whatever next-day
option they have in the morning as I took the rules
with me yesterday to the post office and read them
while waiting in line with a sigh of relief only to
realize a major goof-up. So Mr. on-time spent last
night tying another batch NOT on size 14 caddis hooks.
Murf
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