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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Seasonal Adjustment

The Shop is open for business, again! We've restocked our Triple Town Bears and Lovecraftian Cozies. For the concerned, many of our phone cozies fit the newfangled iPhone 5! How convenient.

This season, we're running a gift tag promotion. Every purchased item comes with a free unique handmade gift tag! Gift tags are mostly blank, save for a "TO:" and "FROM:" label. Every gift tag is different, like snowflakes. Some even have snowflakes. And Cozy Rhody has made all of them.

Lastly, we've updated our Shipping Policies in the shop. We wanted to make sure people knew up front whether or not they can get it by Christmas. Cozy Rhody uses USPS exclusively for shipping. Because we use USPS, we're beholden to their shipping time frames. Luckily for us, USPS released a nifty calendar with shipping deadlines on it! We factored in our pack & polish time to come up with the following deadlines (to guarantee delivery in time for Christmas):

Standard US Domestic
Orders must be placed and paid in full on or before December 19th
Expedited US Domestic
Orders must be placed and paid in full BEFORE 12:00 PM EST December 21
Standard International
Orders must be placed and paid in full on or before December 1
Express International
Orders must be placed and paid in full BEFORE 12:00 PM EST December 10

These deadlines are hard deadlines. While we would like to be spongy and fluid with the rules, we cannot make any guarantees that orders placed outside these time frames will make their destination in time.

A note on Expedited Shipping: Shipping stuff fast is not cheap. We were looking at prices for US Domestic Express Mail and choked on our coffee. It's roughly $33/pound to ship Express Mail in the US. Shipping express internationally is an order of magnitude more expensive. It makes you wonder if it really IS that much more expensive to put a package on a plane today rather than tomorrow.

K.Thx.Bye.

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