Shipping shirts

When we ship books it is a huge production. I spend hours and hours preparing so that I can simplify things for volunteers. This is necessary if we want to get 1500 packages mailed in two days or less. So when I was faced with a mere 400 t-shirt packages I was quite a bit more lax about pre-planning. The back of my brain refused to believe that this was anything to worry about. Everything is still organized in such a way that I can get the job done, but it would take me forever to explain how it is organized and why I did it that way.

Since the first batch of shirts arrived just after noon, I have packaged up 70 orders. This would seem to bode ill for getting the job done quickly, except those were all the complicated, multi-item orders. Most of what is left are the single shirt orders and those go much more quickly. I still have a long day of work ahead of me tomorrow. I think I can get most of it done. The last little bit will have to wait until I get the final batch of shirts on Saturday.

Back to work with me.