Yuleswaps 2018: ALL MATCH-UPS SENT!

[kindness_says]

Matching and spreadsheet-building continue apace! Emails to come as quickly as our lives/Google email quotas allow! This post will be updated periodically with the status of each swap. Comment frolicking is also welcome, as always.

Candy? ALL MATCH-UPS SENT as of 1:54 PM PDT (Sunday 10/28) from a combo of yuleswaps and my personal email (#quotalyfe). Comment here with your AO3 name if yours didn't come!

Drinks? ALL MATCH-UPS SENT as of 9:14 PM PDT (Monday 10/29) from my personal email. Comment here with your AO3 name if yours didn't come!

Books? ALL MATCH-UPS SENT as of 9:28 PM PDT (Monday 10/29) from yuleswaps. Comment here with your AO3 name if yours didn't come!


If match-up emails have gone out, and you do not have yours:

Uh-oh! Do you remember what email you signed up with? Are you sure? Check EVERY INBOX FOLDER. Check your spam. If you still don't have it (or have forgotten which email you used) -- please leave us a comment here, with your AO3 name and many exclamation points. Also, email us (also with your AO3 name) -- yuleswaps at gmail dot com.


If you do have your match-up email, as everyone does in our dreams:

Please check in at, that's right...

SWAPS CENTRAL [2018]
PLEASE DOUBLE-CHECK THAT YOU HAVE ENTERED THE SAME AO3 NAME YOU SIGNED UP WITH, with correct capitalization/spelling, and with no extra spaces!!!!

Ahem. Throughout the course of the next 1-3 months, please keep us AND your sender and recipient as in the loop as possible. Your sender/recip, via email. Us, via Swaps Central!


At Swaps Central, you will be able to tell us:

+ RIGHT NOW: that you've received your match-up email/s! (Please make sure you are clicking under the correct swap. Leave swaps you are not participating in BLANK.)

+ when you've written your recipient, and heard back!
+ when you've heard from your sender, and written back!

+ when your package is SENT and on its way to your recipient (yaaaay)!
+ when your sender tells you their package is SENT and on its way to you (double yaaaay)!

+ when your recipient emails to let you know they RECEIVED your package (triple yaaaay)!!!!
+ when you've RECEIVED the package your sender sent to you (no yays. I've overplayed the yays)!!!!

+ IF ASSIGNED A PINCH-HIT: all of the above, in the same general fashion. (Please tick the relevant pinch-hit box -- INCOMING if you're the recip, OUTGOING if you're the pinch-hitter -- plus whatever ticky-box you're actually there to report.)

Note that, at later stages, there is no need to re-check boxes for previous stages, but you can if you can't remember if you've already done them, or just enjoy checking boxes. Lol.


If you've received your match-up and checked in about it on Swaps Central:

Woohoo! Now email your recipient and chat with them about:

- any questions you still have about their tastes
- allergies and other needs (ALWAYS DOUBLE-CHECK)
- their address and any possible customs-related issues (if international)

Please give your recipient 2-3 days to respond, and be conscious of any away periods mentioned in your match-up. If they do not respond after 2-3 days, and no away periods seem relevant, please email us, and we will do our best to check if they and/or your email have been eaten by bears.


When purchasing or otherwise locating gifts:

- Pleeeeeeeease double-check ingredients against dietary restrictions, if applicable! We cannot stress this enough. WE CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH.

- Don't feel like you have to break the bank! Most recipients are more interested in local color, genuine effort, and/or variety than sheer volume or cost. If you're worried about pleasing your recipient, or wondering if the swaps package you're creating is sufficient/appropriate, please refer to the Yuleswaps FAQ -- and then, if still super-concerned, feel free to email us.

- Again, customs. You don't want your package confiscated by Australia!!!! (For those shipping to the US, bobcatmoran has again kindly offered information on this here.)


SENDING DEADLINE: Monday, November 12, 2018 Tuesday, November 13, 2018


Extensions/Defaulting: As always...get your packages out as early as you can! Holiday post is slow, people start going on vacation, etc. However, should you need an extension for any reason, please email us as soon as you realize it is a possibility AND INCLUDE A REQUESTED TIMEFRAME. We typically grant small extensions, especially to historically reliable swappers, without feeling like a pinch-hitter is needed.

And, of course, if you need to default for any reason, please, please email us. Communication is everything! Life happens! Just let us know. (It's silent!defaulting that gets you banned.)


One More Time: don't forget to check in at Swaps Central! And a very merry Swapstide to you all.

New FAQ and very old resources post here, for anyone who needs them. Questions and comments here or via email, as always.


Kat & Livi

Comments

[arithanas]

Lots of thanks to the mods! Swaps is one of the best parts of my year!

wishes all kind of good things for the mods

[anialove]

Thank you! We hope everyone receives amazing packages.

[aome]

Ok, so when I went to Swaps Central to check in and say I'd received my match up, I clicked "submit" at the bottom and ... nothing happened. Is that an issue with the webpage? With my browser? Is nothing supposed to happen?

[anialove]

After you hit submit, the page should refresh and say "Your response has been recorded." We've also created confirmation emails this year, so you'll receive an email with your responses. If neither of those things happened, your response was not recorded.

I've checked submitting my own answers to confirm that Swaps Central was working.

I would try a different browser or closing and restarting your browser.

[flowerdeluce]

Hi! I haven't seen any email arrive yet. Shall I give it a bit more time? (AO3: flowerdeluce)

[anialove]

The mass mailings sometimes take a bit, but it has been a few hours. Be sure to check your spam folder as well.

To confirm, your email is c******v*****s@gmail.com? (And one letter off from the secondary email you provided?)

If you don't get it by later tonight, we can try forwarding the matchup email directly to you and/or your secondary address.

[flowerdeluce]

Ah, spam folder it is! Apologies!

[biffelderberry]

I'm 99% sure I signed up for candy swap but I haven't gotten an email yet. (Ao3 username: BiffElderberry) I checked my spam but didn't see anything. I know it might early to worry but I can't stop.

[anialove]

You are signed up! Can you send us an email at yuleswaps@gmail.com to check if we have the right one?

[kaz_shirakawa]

Ermagerd snack swaps! \o/

[ambyr]

Just as a general statement: November 12 is a Federal holiday in the US, and post offices will be closed. It might make more sense to have the sending deadline on the 10th or 13th?

[kindness_says]

...You are correct. I totally forgot; I have the 11th marked on my calendar but not the observed Monday. :|

(I think last year I did the same thing, so based this year's deadline off it, but last year I had technical difficulties and pushed the sending deadline back a week, so it didn't end up mattering, so I didn't realize!)

Thanks! I will send everyone an email adjusting it to the 13th.

[schlitzie_ramone]

I've sent my Drinkswaps today - some happy person is gonna be well-caffeinated soon! Glad to be back for swaps! <3

[kindness_says]

Yaaaaaay! Indeed, I do see you've checked in. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Will Yuleswaps happen this year as well? I'd love to have it again in 2019 :)

[kindness_says]

Hi! Who knows if you'll see this, but yes. I was just slow off the mark this year because first I had mono and then I was traveling and then I got a cold/was busy/to some extent tbh was procrastinating for no reason. Sign-ups are open now!