Yuleswaps 2017: SIGN-UPS ARE OPEN. Stop, Drop, and Swap!

[kindness_says]

Hello, sweet swappers! As promised, SWAPS ARE HERE. SWAPS ARE SWAPPENING.

If you are new to swaps, or to Yuletide, and curious about what the heck I'm talking about, our brand-new 2017 FAQ is here! If you are old to swaps, read on!

SCHEDULE:

+ Sign-up forms are open now and will close on Monday, October 23, 2017 at 9:00 PM PDT. Click here for a countdown, as always! Extensions will be unlikely this year, because I was bad about starting us early. So tell your friends, tell your enemies, and sign up on time!

+ Match-ups will go out between October 26 and October 30, we hope. Unless something catastrophic occurs either technologically or personally. as soon as we possibly can send them, guys! Sorry!! Please bear with us. <3

+ Our SENDING DEADLINE this year is MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2017. I’m not sure we’ve ever had a Monday sending deadline before! Exciting. Also, I might change it in the event that match-ups go out later than planned. But hopefully not.

(It will be about a two-week sending period, as always, concentrated in early November, so before signing up, please do a reality check to make sure you will have the money and time!)

REMINDERS:

+ Swaps Central: our all-in-one check-in form! You remember it. Please don’t forget that our VERY FIRST CHECK-IN will be immediately following match-up emails, so that we can make sure everyone got theirs!

+ In addition, to make sure you receive all communications, we strongly suggest tracking the appropriate tags on LJ/DW (omnomnom | who likes books | nice cuppa) and whitelisting our email (yuleswaps at gmail dot com), if you haven’t done so already!

+ Signing up: PLEASE TYPE CAREFULLY. Make sure all your usernames and emails are correctly spelled, are consistently capitalized, and have no extra spaces!!!!

+ After signing up: please keep an eye on your various spam/promotions/whatever folders for the email you signed up with! Also, be aware that at least one DW/LJ post will appear under the requisite tags when match-ups begin to go out. Be on the lookout beginning 3 days after sign-ups close, in case your email isn’t working!

+ If anything untoward should happen to you at ANY POINT in the swapping process, please don’t disappear. Just tell us, and we’ll work it out! Promise. We are very nice.

SIGN-UPS: CLOSED

Stop, Drop, and Swap… Candy! Books! Drinks!

Questions? Comments? First check out the FAQ, and then, if that doesn’t sort you, feel free to comment either here or there, or email us at yuleswaps at gmail!

<3 K

Comments

[wanderlustlover]

Best news to wake up to ever! I'm getting on this right now! You all are the best!

[lovepeaceohana]

YAY YAY YAY I missed Yuletide signups this year so I'm pretty stoked that I haven't missed this one! :D

[snarkasaurus]

YAY SWAPS

[stasia]

I am so here for this omg!!! I haven't done Yuletide itself in years (I can't do it and the other holiday stuff I've got going on), but this I make time for.

[schlitzie_ramone]

WOOHOO! Glad to be back - Drinkswap, here I come! <3

[floranna]

And again I am surprised to see Finland as a separate option in Candyswap... =D But I didn't receive any check-in email for candy or bookswap, or did I misunderstand something?

[refu]

I suppose the Swaps Central all-in-one check-in form will be linked somewhere once assignments have gone out? Either that or I need new glasses cause I just checked the new and old FAQ and didn't see any link. And - boohoo - I don't remember it from whenever-it-was-I-last-did-a-yuleswap. *sniff*

[minoanmiss]

YAY! Thank you for once again running this this year!

[bobcatmoran]

FYI, if you are a person sending from non-US to US who is worried about whether your stuff will be seized by customs, and you are willing to wade through some rather complex tables, the USDA has their manuals for what you can/can't send publicly available.

Of particular interest might be the Fruits and Vegetables Import Requirements if you wanna send like, an entire cantaloupe or something and the Miscellaneous and Processed Products Manual if you're sending anything…er…processed. Or you can shoot me a PM, as I actually do this stuff for a living. "Inspect and Release" means you're good.

[silverflight8]

man it's been a long time since I've done this! so excited!

[floranna]

Have the assignments been sent yet? (just worried that I missed them ^^')

[refu]

As assignments are coming out delayed - will there be an extension of the sending deadline? Asking because it's highly likely I'll have to order something to swap online and having it shipped here takes time. *worried puppy eyes* I had hoped to browse through a local bookshop while I was on my long weekend, but not knowing what I'd have to send... :-/