trappedtexan wrote:

For those shipping late, please choose a shipping method that will guarantee delivery in time for Christmas.  I sent out several packages on the 10th and I just chose first class with tracking through USPS.  It is now the 18th and the three that were headed out of country (UK, France, and Australia) are all sitting in customs in the US since the 14th.  These luckily were not secret santa packages, but dang it they shouldn't be sitting in customs forever.  

Unfortunately that's nothing.  My ESB one sheet which came from Sweden sat in JFK customs for a month.

Nico wrote:

hellhippie wrote:

Oops mines opened

No worries Bill

Last 2 years I've handed mine over to my better half for safe keeping till Christmas Day, just in case there's any mishaps when the beer flows

hahaha I will next year trust me ....... don't wanna ruin the fun

My present will be shipped tomorrow, it should make it well ahead of Christmas.

Man, I've been in this every year I've been here. I havnt checked in for a while and totally forgot about the ss

curch wrote:

Man, I've been in this every year I've been here.  I havnt checked in for a while and totally forgot about the ss

Sent you a pm. Might be able to make something work for last minute secret santa. Get back to me ASAP.

Got a last minute deal squared away. More of a gift exchange than a "secret" santa since there is only two involved, but one of them doesn't know the username of the other yet......

After Christmas I will be happy to share with curch who the user is, but not until then so Mystery username who shall remain anonymous......thanks for stepping up last minute.

Oh the suspense

Good work guys!

Dang it Bill you screwed everything up now thats it 20 lashings from boobzilla lol. And mine has also been shipped .

arohk wrote:

Dang it Bill you screwed everything up now thats it 20 lashings from boobzilla lol. And mine has also been shipped .

ive been very very bad so 40 sounds more appropriate

trappedtexan wrote:

Got a last minute deal squared away.  More of a gift exchange than a "secret" santa since there is only two involved, but one of them doesn't know the username of the other yet......

After Christmas I will be happy to share with curch who the user is, but not until then so Mystery username who shall remain anonymous......thanks for stepping up last minute.

Nice one Bryan, that's great to hear mate, the more the merrier

PS:- I really hope your name is in the hat to get a gift after all the organising and all that mate

Good point. I hope Santa has a vintage sw goodie for the organiser.

Thanks guys. I left myself off the list in case anyone need some last minute stuff (had another guy already lined up also as a backup who offered to be an alternate early on).

It has been a pleasure to do this so far. Gotta say I respect AJ having done it for so many years as I had a few things that needed ironing out, but now I know how to better organize the drawing of names and learned how to send out mass messages. I am sure you guys may have known how to do that already, but I never needed to send the same message to multiple people before so had never figured it out. Really easy once you know how so no more copy and pasting for the generic stuff.

Next year will be so much easier I think as I will have a better handle on how to do it. AJ gave great advice early on.

Dude....... ....

That's nuts man, you should've been in.

I second that!

Third it!

It's all good guys. I am more of the Santa type and not the receiving of gifts type anyway. I did send out a few gifts to some members.

This is the third year I have had the pleasure
A.J. Ran this like a military operation for many years and there is no one better for advice on how to run a Vintage Star Wars Secret Santa than A.J.
But Bryan man you should have been in dude, we can always squeeze one more in as you have just proved with Church
Fair play to you mate, but you should have been in
Next year you WILL be in

I was typing while you made your last post, fair play mate

Checked the post today and I got mine not sure if it's safe to open the outer box so I will wait.

Another checked off the list.

Do we have any members in Sweden who may want to do th secret Santa? Got another last minute add on and I am not sure it can be done by someone out of country with buying, receiving, then resending and we are down to like 30 days. Gonna give it a shot by hoping someone in country might want to try so it is a bit easier and doesn't have to go through customs a bunch of times. If someone is let me know via pm ASAP please.

Got my parcel, arrived safe n sound

trappedtexan wrote:

Do we have any members in Sweden who may want to do th secret Santa?  Got another last minute add on and I am not sure it can be done by someone out of country with buying, receiving, then resending and we are down to like 30 days.  Gonna give it a shot by hoping someone in country might want to try so it is a bit easier and doesn't have to go through customs a bunch of times.  If someone is let me know via pm ASAP please.

Got this sorted.

Also glad it arrived Paul, so another checked off the list.

Not near enough pictures in this thread. I have been slacking.

Santa is hoping you have already or will mail soon.