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April Group Order Completed (last week lol) & Summer Plans

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A week has passed since I mailed out your orders. Packages have already started arriving in Europe and the US a few days ago (?!!), so I gather IT’S ABOUT TIME I sit my ass down and write this post to officially announce that… the April Group Order is COMPLETED!! ?

Thank you to EVERYONE who participated! ??

I love all the familiar names that show up in my inbox when a Group Order opens, and I am in awe of every new person who chooses to join our Group Order. It’s a big responsibility to shoulder your trust and do things right!

And that’s why this April Group Order has been a chore and a half! ?

All rough seas, no smooth sailing in May

It was nothing to do with processing your orders or securing the goods. Those parts in April went the same as usual.

But came May and oh BOY. That month kicked my ass big time and I was STRESSED. DAILY!

Hong Kong post office dropped the usual EMS service to UK and switched to a different international courier service. I THOUGHT it would be largely the same but woah, everything was different. And complicated!

  • Instead of filling in a customs label, they now want online customs submission with product code for every category of item in the package. ?
  • Normally, you can mail pretty much anything via EMS, except commonly banned items like battery, acid, weapons etc~ This new service has something like 30 CATEGORIES of banned items, including (bizarrely) plastic kitchenware. ? Stricter then entering Australia!!
  • They CLAIM they will discard / return your package WITHOUT WARNING if any rule is breached. My friend actually binned some stuff they were gonna include for me. Had me stressing if anything in my package was sus!
  • Annoyingly, whoever typed my address into the system at the post office spelled EVERYTHING wrong. ? Street name, town, county. Everything was misspelled lmao. THANK GOD the house number and post code were correct ? but honestly, DID NOT NEED THIS EXTRA STRESS.
  • Lastly, you guys already knew this via my Group Order Status updates, but the package sat somewhere for WEEKS before it got on a UK bound plane. If the tracking had said that outright, I would have waited, albeit impatiently. However, the tracking said it got on a plane day soon after mailing! Then never arrived in the UK! ?

Compounded with ALL the other things above (new customs system, new content rules, misspelled address), could you see WHY I was stressing every day wondering what happened to the Group Order package?!!!!!!!!!!

Calm ocean returns?!

Gaaaaaaaah, everything that went on in May was crap, man. ? I’m just thankful it turned out fine and uneventful in the end.

Nevertheless, the poor experience with the new courier seriously put me off. I INTENDED to host another Group Order this summer, and told many people so, but this latest experience made me re-think my plan…

BUT THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ? 

Hong Kong post announced that EMS to the UK is BACK IN SERVICE from this month!!!! ??✨

If the usual shipping arrangement can be in place then, alrighty, I’m up for more Group Orders! ?

A fair number of sets did come into stock in May/June. I better start planning Shop updates eh…

Before we set sail again

Before we talk about a summer Group Order, gotta do a couple of jobs around here first.

Now that you guys had your pick with the latest leftover goods, time for me to tidy up the Buy Now section Shop!

Need to combine the old leftovers and the new leftovers, take new photographs, and then post new listings. Because no one wants to scroll through 100 old listings where half the items have already sold out! ?

One last reminder!

While I go do that, please patiently wait for your Group Order package to arrive. ?

LOOKS like international service has improved and things are travelling at reasonable speed at the moment. If you do luckily get your package soon, and you’re pleased with what you’ve received, please share a haul pic with us! On twitter / instagram / tumblr @hachisales.

And if you feel especially kind and talkative, please leave a review here on the website! Someone might see your comment and decide to join the summer Group Order~ ?

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