BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....

Subject: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Nancy King
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 01:07 PM

Christmas was fine this year, and I got several very nice things, but I was disappointed that I got nothing from my Mudcat Secret Santa! I've been reasonably good this year (not to say perfect…), and I sent a package off to my Santee (which did arrive), but (*sigh*) no mysterious package for me.

Oh, THAT'S all right! I don't mind! I'll just sit here in the dark….

Maybe it will come tomorrow!

Still hoping,
Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 01:09 PM

Aww Nancy it's on its way I'm sure, have a cyber hug from the Highlands of Scotland to keep you going till it gets there, and Merry Christmas.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Nancy King
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 01:11 PM

Thanks, Giok! That helps!

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 01:34 PM

Take heart! Mudcat Secret Santa gifts are notoriously slow-moving, particularly if there's an ocean or two involved in the transit process. As soon as the postal service of the country of origin realizes it's a Mudcat gift, they secure the package to the back of a swimming hamster, toss it off the nearest wharf, and let nature take its course. Your gift may well arrive in July in a rather waterlogged state, but it will probably get there eventually.

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From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 01:41 PM

I posted my santees present in November to America and it hasn't arrived. I'm a bit concerned that it hasn't arrived and I put a lot of thought and effort into it, not to mention that postage cost a fortune! I'm keeping my finger's crossed that it will still arrive.

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From: MBSLynne
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 01:44 PM

Neither Richard nor I has had our SS pressies yet either and I didn't get mine last year until the end of January.I'm sure it will arrive and just think how nice it is after the climax of Christmas, to have something to look forward to!

Love Lynne

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 02:05 PM

May I respectfully suggest-- perhaps local addressees could be found for various regions, next year, who could receive and hold santees' gifts for their area. That way they could be sent EARLY and then reposted by the local recipient for timely arrival.

~Susan

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 02:06 PM

I posted a parcel of stuff that I had aquired on my trip, and couldn't fit into my suitcase, from the post office in Beverly Mass. It still hasn't arrived here and it was posted on the 12th of November. So all is not lost yet!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: gnu
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 02:44 PM

It's the global warming of all Cicadas that's causing a drone that is affecting air males.

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Helen
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 03:56 PM

I sent my Santee, Teresa's present half way around the world to the correct address in Las Vegas (from Newcastle, Oz) and the Post Office there, in its infinite wisdom, sent it back saying my Santee didn't live there.

It came back to me a little worse for wear - did they stamp on it with their big rubber boots, and not their little rubber stamp?

Not only did I have to post it again but I had to replace a wind chime which was crushed. I had a terrible time finding another windchime, if you can believe that. I thought they were ubiquitous, like Christmas beetles in December, until I desperately needed one. I found a lovely selection in one of my favourite shops, which some naughtly little elf had spent a considerable amount of time tangling up, so none of them were usable.

I finally found a nice one, re-packaged everything and sent it off again. I did keep my Santee informed about the delays though. She was very nice about it all.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Nancy King
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 04:20 PM

Quite true -- it will be nice to have a surprise arriving in the mail long after all the seasonal festivities have died down. I'll keep the faith for a while yet.

I'm sure glad my outgoing package didn't come back broken and marked undeliverable! That would take some of the joy out of this game!

Gazing hopefully out to sea,
Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 04:30 PM

LOL, Bee-dubya-ell and gnu!

Rudolph was on the terrorist watch list and Santa had to check all of his packages with Homeland Security before he was cleared to fly over US airspace. Perhaps that would explain the delay?:->

If you believe in it, it will come... (a poor paraphrase from the Kevin Costner movie about a baseball diamond.)

katwaitingforherSantee'scommentsaboutthepressies

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Hollowfox
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 06:44 PM

If Giok is your Secret Santa, the pressie is well worth the wait. Take it from me, last year's satisfied recipient.

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 06:59 PM

I put out the SS info as early as I dare, so's people can use the cheaper postal options, but someone always complains that it's too early..... I guess there is just no pleasing some people.....

And I'd like to repeat, I'm not responsible for what the assorted post offices do to parcels!

SECSY
LTS


Limpit hasn't had hers yet either, so it's not personal.

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From: Joybell
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 08:15 PM

Mine hasn't arrived either. Maybe it will come in time for my birthday. I'll be able to open it at once. Watching the mailbox. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Amos
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 10:55 PM

Damn, I knew I shouldn't have sent that manicure set...


A

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Peace
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 01:42 AM

I sent a non-Christmas related envelope to a Mudcatter in Australia back in Early November--or maybe late October. It contained some articles (concerning a disorder that some people have) and CD. It ain't there YET. If he reads this, please send me your personal mailing info again and I will get another CD off to you. I think I may have sent it via ground transportatio--which I though would be a truck to Vancouver and a plane to OZ. Looks like it meant a boat to OZ.

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 03:59 AM

my first Secret Santa parcel (from Giac) arrived Feb just before my birthday; my second one (from Micca) was the first received in it's year; I've forgotten when my 3rd arrived, and this year's parcel from KimC arrived before Christmas.

One year a parcel was RTS - my Santee moved after submitting her details (oops)! And I had to airmail it again - at least the US post office sent it back by airmail, what if they had sent it seamail?? We'd still be waiting.

Just remembered I'm still awaiting a small parcel from Charley Noble & JudyB. And something from my sister, probably a cheque to add to my sister-in-law's chq.

pressie receiving season continues!!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 09:24 AM

In the true spirit of the season, send me your address Nancy and I will forward my Secret Santa gift on to you. Can you use a hideous lamp?
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 09:59 AM

I hope said lamp doesn't have legs and red shoes?
If the lamp referred to is even more hideous than that, it must indeed be a sight for sore eyes!!

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 10:07 AM

The Leg Lamp

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Nancy King
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 11:58 AM

Um, thanks anyhow, Sinsull, but I think I'll just wait a while longer...

Liz, no one's blaming you, that's for sure! Thanks for doing all the work! It makes much fun for a lot of people -- I know I had fun assembling the package for my Santee!

Patience is a virtue,
Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: GUEST,Robold
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 01:31 PM

I too was severely disappointed. I did not get my 12" tall President Bush action figure commander-in-chief in the flight suit, with articulated limbs, capable of assuming at least 150 different poses.

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 01:35 PM

Very wise Nancy. SINSULL'S Christmas lamp is worse than the leg lamp she got after the Getaway. It's described on one of the Secret Santa threads.

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Amos
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 01:35 PM

In my stocking the morning of Xmas I got an air-freshener. It was a picture of George Bush's face, and it said in large letters, George Bush's Dumb-Ass Head on a String. I installed it immediately. The smell is pretty bad, but the grins are worth it.


A

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From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 12:16 AM

Ha! Another reason to hang Dumbya out to dry. He stinks!

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From: Kim C
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 12:48 PM

Hey Nancy, you know Christmas isn't really over till January 6. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: MMario
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 12:53 PM

I don't *think* I've gotten my SS pressie yet - because, though I have several things from mudcatters - they all asked me for my address...and SS should have had it. Unless they are being very sneaky.

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 03:51 PM

Are you sure you've been good enough? Have you all checked your stockings for lumps of coal/kindling/barbeque brickettes?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 05:32 PM

It isn't a question of being good enough, it's a question of who you know. That's what they tell me, anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Nancy King
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 06:28 PM

Looks like it's a question of being patient...

Amos, my brother's stocking contained (among other things) a bumper sticker reading, "If Jeb runs, I'm moving to a country whose dictator comes from a smarter family."

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:38 PM

Good one. . . except that just about every dictator in the world qualifies as smarter. Scary stuff!

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 09:16 PM

They say perfume does not make a very good gift but here are some I made myself, albeit digitally.

Here you go Nancy: http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/perfume1a.jpg



and Lynn: http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/perfume1b.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Crane Driver
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 12:06 PM

Well -

The whole exercise has been a bit pointless this year. I don't really mind about the presents - I'm sure something will turn up eventually, and if not . . . well, I'm no worse off than I was.

My main reason for signing up for this is the pre-postage banter on the Silly Secret Santa thread, the clues and the guessing. This year, my Santa made just the one late post, saying nothing much except that s/he was going to send something. My santee didn't respond to any of my anonymous posts, so I just gave up on the whole thing.

Don't know if I'll bother next time.

Happy New Year, everybody.

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 06:45 PM

Happy New Year, Andrew & Carol

I love the hints & clues & have felt so inadequate in the past cos words are not my thing. My first Santa was Giac whose family teased & tormented each other & she was in her element & I had no idea who Santa was or where Santa lived. All I could offer my cat-collecting santa that year was one poem about cats I remembered from my childhood.

This year I tried to write a piece of bad poetry cos CapriUni was my santa & she is a fantastic writer. It took forever to write the piece & fortunately I found the Bad Poetry generator & had a ball after that.

Mudcat has been down a lot in the last few months & someone thought that might have affected the hints thread, but maybe not.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 09:41 PM

I got my present, which was here when I got back from the UK yesterday.

I'm no wiser as to my Santa's Mudcat name but must thank Nicky Boak for the puzzle, which will drive all of us mad, the book of sci-fi stories which I am looking forward to reading and the Kendal Mint Cake, one of my favourite sweets for many years. I gave a very small piece to Kendall who wasn't keen (more for me) and to SINSULL, who loved it and will have to get more supplies sent out by my daughter at some time. I'd forgotten how minty that stuff tasted. Sublime!

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From: SussexCarole
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 05:37 PM

Happy New Year to you as well Sandra. It's somewhat colder spending Christmas here this year!   Great memories of our visit to Oz and it looks as though we will be back in January 2008 to celebrate Andrew's Mum & Dad's Diamond wedding.

Carolex

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 06:28 PM

hooray! tho can I wait 2 years?, it's a loooooooong time.

It's bloody hot & humid here & I'm hiding behind blinds & curtains with fans moving air around. We had a singing session last night & I sat under the hostess's smaller fan. None of this nonesense about sharing the cool! Lots of good chat, songs & yummy nibbles.

I visited Rhymin' Simon on Boxing day, again good conversation & songs. Folks were in his pool & a good time was had.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Joybell
Date: 31 Dec 05 - 04:56 PM

It's hotter here down South than it is in Sydney, Sandra - Darwin even!

Crane Driver - what we need is a "Banter -yes/no" box below our addresses. Then we could go into different shoe-boxes.
Says she who doesn't have to do the hard job of organizing Santas, but does enjoy the pre-season banter too. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Pseudolus
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:01 AM

No delivery yet. I'm still waiting, and knowing the mail service, there's still an excellent chance it will arrive!

Never fear my "gorgeous secret Santa"!! Stranger things have happened!! The most frustrating part is not knowing who you are!! Oh well, good things come to those who wait.


Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: GUEST,Pseudolus' Gorgeous Secret Santa
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:03 AM

I am worried that you won't get the parcel. You should have recieved by now........

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Pseudolus
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:58 AM

I guess that it's possible that the package will not arrive. And if so it will be sad but only because you clearly put the time and care into getting it on it's way SOOOO early!   Besides, I have a gorgeous Secret Santa! who could ask for more than that?!?!?!?


Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: GUEST,Nancy King's Stressed SS!
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 05:51 PM

Hey! It was posted on 18 December - and didn't require crossing major bodies of water (although it did involved an international border) so ... ! AND I made sure there was no stuff in it that might slow the process, like food or leather or ... whatever. Sheesh.

Sorry I didn't post sooner, but I've been overseas and got it in the first post I could arrange after landing. Still - I would have thought it would have been there long before now ...

(and - be fair - you weren't particularly quick off the mark getting your hints posted neither!)

NKSSS

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Nancy King
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 11:37 PM

NEWS FLASH!   

YAY!!! My pressie was in my mailbox when I got home from work tonight! Thank you, Secret Santa -- and I hope you're not TOO stressed!

The package has an Ontario return address and the name "PJS Thomas," but I've not yet been able to figure out your Mudcat name! I'll keep trying, but there aren't many clues I can decipher, except that you've traveled to Wales, and I suspect you're female!

Sorry for whining about the late arrival -- I guess the Postal Elves were stressed too!

Anyhow, PJS, thanks so much for the celtic knot cross-stitch kit, the very interesting book about samplers, and the cassette of Welsh music (with album notes in both English and Welsh), which I will listen to tomorrow.

And for those of you who still have not received your gifties -- keep the faith!

Gratefully,
Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: GUEST,Nancy King's Relieved Secret Santa
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 04:26 AM

See? And it isn't even Christmas yet - at least by the Old Calendar.

Glad the bits 'n' bobs of are interest. You were going to get some bits of maple sugar too but rumour had it that US Customs ain't too keen on food-stuffs ... so Mrs Claus sprinkled it on the Christmas trifle. Very nice too!

Have a Happy!

NKRSS

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Joybell
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 05:25 PM

No mail for a week. Not even ads for sheep dip. I'll go sit by the hanging milk can and wave down the mail car. Watching and waiting. Drifting and dreaming. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 03:34 PM

Mailing packages between Canada and the U.S. can be very slow, because the U.S. reserves the right to open and inspect it. Pain in the ass, if you ask me. The real threat is going to come through some other way than in the mail.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 04:18 AM

No, the US postal service open all the mail from Canada, just in case you've slipped in something dangerous and offensive, like ooh.... a former Prime Minister.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 04:19 AM

By the way, All Santas will be 'outed' at Candlemass. You can guess if you like, but I'm revealing nothing til Feb.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Boo Hoo! No pressie for me....
From: sian, west wales
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 04:41 AM

Personally, I think Canada Post should search everything coming from the States in case Conrad Black is trying to slip in under the radar ...

siân