Secret Santa!

[phaula]

Aaa so cool!! Mind showing it to us?))

[Emily]

I’m so glad you liked your gift!! The post office told me it would take a month but it only took 10 days, amazing!!!

[michaela]

@phaula

Mind showing it to us?

Hope Emily won’t mind but since we have a curious member here I am going to share. I gave my Secret Santa a couple of recommendations and one of them was tea or any other hot beverage and I received this Turkish tea and Turkish coffee and as a bonus a jewelry from a local artist. I already started to drink the tea Loved everything and indeed I am very impressed by the speed of Turkish post! Thank you Emily and I hope the rest of you receive your gifts very soon as well!

[Emily]

It’s actually kinda crazy to see a picture of the items so soon after sending them!! I’m so glad you liked everything, and let me know if you need any tips for tea/coffee prep!

[phaula]

Anyone else received theirs yet?

[gjw]

Surely the person I sent mine to has received theirs? I sent it weeks ago!

[Hjall]

Haven’t gotten anything yet, and unfortunately don’t have a tracking number to check if my package already arrived at it’s destination yet either…

[Emily]

I wonder if I’m gonna get a Secret Santa present Whoever had me must not love me very much!! Just kidding. But watch out, I’ll get you.

That said, no hard feelings. It can be expensive to mail things here. And the packages half the time get lost.

[michaela]

Oh no! I am sad to read this. I hope it comes sooner or later. I am sure whoever your Secret Santa is, they didn’t forget about you

[Vagabonder]

Hey, I received my sweet Christmas gifts from my secret santa and will be mailing him something someday soon!

Thank You!

[aapeli]

I have yet to go and receive mine because I ended up leaving home for Christmas :(. I hope it’s there and delivered to my housemate when I get back in about a week!

[phaula]

Hey guys, I guess it’s time for Santa to retire until next christmas!

I know some of you haven’t received their gifts and am terribly sorry for that The post these days appeared to be more unreliable than I thought.

So we will delete the @santa account to purge all private information shared over the forum.
If you have any questions, you can still write to @phaula.

[Vagabonder]

I hope my secret santa recipient gets his soon. Guess it’ll be a belated Christmas gift that’s more like a Valentines gift.

[gjw]

The gifts I sent never arrived. And I never got one in return! I hope someone, somewhere has found them and is enjoying them…

[Emily]

I would have needed a tracking number to get mine, the Turkish post is not reliable enough to get anything delivered. I probably should have mentioned that when I signed up to participate, ahaha.

[richee]

So we did learn this all for next year, track and trace numbers required.
However, that’s not reliable in my case.
I sometimes buy packages from online webshops and despite the track and trace code say that it’s delivered, it’s not always the case.

Any how, I am looking forward to next year, hopefully I can participate next year as well.

[Hjall]

Same here - Nothing arrived here, and I don’t think the one I sent arrived… I still have some hope that it just got held up in customs and will get through eventually, though. So far it’s only two months, and last month I got a package that had been stuck in transit since June.
Unfortunately, sending it with tracking would have doubled the (already substantial) porto, so I didn’t.

[Vagabonder]

Lolz, late last year I received a postcard that had been mailed around the beginning-middle of 2020.

[phaula]

Omg, then there’s still some hope for all our parcels

[Emily]

@Hjall

sending it with tracking would have doubled the (already substantial) porto

I think anything you send abroad gets issued a customs code that they can’t charge extra for. Usually it is enough for international tracking It doesn’t update you or anything but you can use it to check in on the package (at least if you sent it by public post/national post office).