Lost and found
Dec. 24th, 2025 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrSometime around last May, I got an email from a potter I knew slightly, up in Portland. He'd looked for me at Ceramic Showcase, wanted to buy some plates, didn't see me. I explained that I haven't done that show since 2019, but would be happy to make some plates for him. We agreed on four patterns, and they went on the list.
Got them done in my June firing, asked if he wanted me to ship them. Oh no, he and wife drove down to California all the time, he could pick them up in Eugene.
Then commenced a series of mishaps and miscues. Phoned about a pickup on our landline when I was away at a show in Roseburg. Email received when I was away in Anacortes. Finally arranged a rendezvous in October, only to have him no-show.
Coming down to mid-December, I finally tracked down his phone number in the Oregon Potters Association directory. I really need to get these plates out of my studio, I said, Can I just ship them to you? So I got his address, sent them off UPS the next morning, called him to get a card number for payment. Case closed.
A week-and-a-half later, I get an email from him, asking if UPS had any indication of when they'd arrive? Only they'd been having a problem with porch bandits in his neighborhood, and he wanted to make sure he got the box.
Oh dear.
Went online to UPS with the tracking number to find they'd been delivered a week previously, complete with photo documentation. Which I copied and sent him. So now what? I shipped them, they were delivered, so even if I had paid extra for insurance--it doesn't come automatically with my discount shipping service--they wouldn't have paid out. I'm pretty sure I told him to look for them in two-three days, but it was on the phone, not email, so I couldn't check. Should I offer to make another set?
Two days ago, I get another email. Found them. One of the girls brought the box in and put it in a closet.
Whew!
Got them done in my June firing, asked if he wanted me to ship them. Oh no, he and wife drove down to California all the time, he could pick them up in Eugene.
Then commenced a series of mishaps and miscues. Phoned about a pickup on our landline when I was away at a show in Roseburg. Email received when I was away in Anacortes. Finally arranged a rendezvous in October, only to have him no-show.
Coming down to mid-December, I finally tracked down his phone number in the Oregon Potters Association directory. I really need to get these plates out of my studio, I said, Can I just ship them to you? So I got his address, sent them off UPS the next morning, called him to get a card number for payment. Case closed.
A week-and-a-half later, I get an email from him, asking if UPS had any indication of when they'd arrive? Only they'd been having a problem with porch bandits in his neighborhood, and he wanted to make sure he got the box.
Oh dear.
Went online to UPS with the tracking number to find they'd been delivered a week previously, complete with photo documentation. Which I copied and sent him. So now what? I shipped them, they were delivered, so even if I had paid extra for insurance--it doesn't come automatically with my discount shipping service--they wouldn't have paid out. I'm pretty sure I told him to look for them in two-three days, but it was on the phone, not email, so I couldn't check. Should I offer to make another set?
Two days ago, I get another email. Found them. One of the girls brought the box in and put it in a closet.
Whew!
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Date: 2025-12-24 08:05 pm (UTC)