Design Crafters

Well, it’s already September. Can you believe it?! The kids
are back in school and Christmas will be here before you know it. I just want
to emphasize that we offer an early order incentive at this time of year to
encourage early ordering of Christmas cards. It helps us out tremendously so we
aren’t pulling our hair out quite so much when November and December roll
around. It you order before the end of September, we offer free envelope
imprinting of all personalized cards.

So many folks don’t start thinking about Christmas cards until after they get
through Thanksgiving. The thought is that, "Well, we still have time but
we better hurry up and order soon." It takes a few days to get the list
together of how many cards are needed to send, then there’s the time looking
around to find the perfect Christmas card, then there’s the time it takes to
order samples or catalog or pass out some printed out copies around the office
to get a decision made. If there is custom work involved there is the time it
takes to get a proof prepared. Then before you know it, it is Dec. 5th or later
before the order gets placed.

You would still think that would be plenty of time to get the cards because we
say on our site that orders generally take 3-4 days to process unless there is
custom work like a logo or custom verse which takes more like 5-7 business
days. Even with the shipping time added in, it would seem that would still be a
workable time frame. Those who order simple cards with no custom work still
generally get out pretty quickly at that time, but it begins to be a real
struggle when there is custom work as so many businesses especially want custom
jobs. At this point it is difficult for our suppliers to process that kind of
volume as quickly.

We love doing custom jobs, but at this point, it becomes such a struggle
because there are too many thousands of people all over the country who have
the same mind set and our poor suppliers who print not only our Christmas cards but cards
from dealers like us from all over the country are "slam dunked" at
this time. There is more chance for errors because they have to work so fast to
push out all of the orders. Sometimes even the manufacturers of the cards have
to produce so fast that the stock they send our suppliers is defective. That of
courses causes even more delays.

UPS, Fed EX and USPS are all struggling at this point because with all the online
ordering not only of Christmas cards but also all the presents to be delivered,
that they are maxed out. They often cannot meet their deadlines and packages
are delayed. So….it really is in your best interests to order early to avoid
all of that.

My goodness, what a long mantra to try to encourage you to order early this
year to avoid any delays and save money at the same time! Did I convince you? I
hope so. Check out all of our huge Christmas card selection at
www.DesignCrafters.com.