I had a bit of drama earlier this week with getting ready for my show at Worcester State. I ordered 2 new prints of new work for my exhibit about 2 weeks ago. It takes about a week and a half for them to deliver to me. I expected them to be on my door step last Saturday but they weren’t. The tracking number said it was delivered at the post office last wednesday (the 23rd). I go to the post office this past Monday and explain the situation because they weren’t on my door step. They couldn’t locate them, and told me to call the PO Tuesday morning between 7-8 am to put on hold for delivery so I can pick them up since my drop-off time was schedule for noon that day.

I then proceeded to call and ask my neighbors if a poster tube was delivered by mistake because that often happens with our mail… and none of them saw it. BUT my neighbor next to us on the left and my family have a decent relationship and often looks after the house when we aren’t there… so I am not always there because I am either out at a meeting or something else, and so my dad asked my neighbor to bring packages to the back porch if he notices that we aren’t around.

SO, my dad failed to tell me this initially, with a previous package that was delivered but my neighbor went ahead and put my prints on the back porch and failed to call or leave a message that they were there. So I freaked out for 24 hours because my prints for this show weren’t around and I didn’t want to spend an extra $60 to re-order a new set of prints at a local print shop. 

My client that is based in Marlborough told me a story where she had a package miss delivered that was full of silver semi precious metal jewelry for a show exhibit and she called the PO and they retracked their steps to find the package. But she reassured me to wait at least 24 hours because it might show up (which it did!) and I didn’t have to re-order them. Prints aren’t something that you can return either, so I’d rather NOT spend an extra $60 to re-print them.