Thursday, April 16, 2009

The mail system - lessons learned

I found out from several people in Toccoa, that they received their Easter letter from me with invite cards AFTER Easter! Obviously that was not planned. So, I went to Seneca today to talk with the administrative support staff to find out how this could have happened. It turns out that the letter and envelopes were printed on April 2 and taken to the Seneca post office to be mailed that same day. We have a bulk rate permit for mailing out of Seneca and that is how we have always mailed stuff. People in Seneca, Westminster, etc that have a 297xx zip code received their letters within a day or two from what I understand.... However, people with a 305xx zip code obviously did not.

When we talked to the post office to try to figure out why this happened we found out something interesting. Here is the travel itinerary that your letter took......if you live in Toccoa. Seneca, SC to Greenville, SC to Greensboro, NC to Columbia, SC to Toccoa, GA. Wow....that letter is more well travelled than some people I know! On top of that, because it is Bulk Rate mail....each of those locations have up to 3 days to process it! I had no idea. The office staff had no idea. So......chalk it up to a lesson learned. But rest assured, the letters weren't sent last minute, they didn't get left behind when the others got mailed..... The USPS just got us!

Multi-site church changes everything....... so many things change when you go multi-site that I can't begin to list them all....and there are some that I probably still don't know. It is interesting to look at other churches who are multi-site and realize that although most of the campuses are with in 30 minutes of the live campus....most are in the same state! Crossing statelines makes it extra interesting.....

Anyway....I am sorry everyone got their letters late....we will try not to repeat that mistake.

Shannon

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wow... that stinks!

Shannon... I just wanted to say I am very impressed! You posted a blog two days in a row!!!

~Candice Bryant