Hey guys, I just wanted to share with you, that when you wait to pass on an envie it WILL slow a train down. With a cross country train sometimes it takes a whole week to reach a destination. (BUT, the beauty of a cross-country train is that you will get different variety and $$ amounts on your coupons, I love cross country trains best)
If you want the train to go smoothly, pick a day, say Tuesday, and
mail every Tuesday whether you received or not. It might not be the whole 50 coupons... you can post to your receiver that your envie is light because you haven't received yet. THEN, when you do receive hold onto that one till the next Tuesday.
Just a thought, but I am sure
you can see the chain reaction of what happens if EVERYONE waits for their envie EVERY week.
Be on the lookout for tearpad coupons, wine tag coupons, try me free forms (usually in tearpad form), blinkies, etc. those are GREAT coupons to include in your envelope. I LOVE LOVE LOVE to see what other people find out there.
Also, another thought I wonder if everyone received a master mailing (address) list, it would be easy to skip for vacations/illness and bumping non senders? It also would be less private PMs for our WONDERFUL conductor, she could just do a mass PM or email. It would be very easy also for us as riders to say hey, I haven't received or heard from *******(your sender), please ***** (the person above your sender) in over 2 weeks, would you skip her and send to me instead? OR, ****** would you please skip me this week and send to **** below me, I am off to Disney for 2 weeks.
This would be a lot better for Shel and not have to keep up with so much.
I have been a conductor for several coupon trains and it can be frustrating!!! I feel for ours as it is so hard to keep track of when you don't know if someone is not sending or not posting. This thread is vital in helping her out to know what is going on. If you haven't received in 2 weeks, I say bump the sender!!
On limiting certain coupons....... I can understand hair color, IF you use it, usually the coupons you receive in the newspaper are plenty for your once every month color. But, the dog food, you might not need it, but the person behind you might have 5 dogs and be thrilled to receive them.
Sorry for the lengthy post.......Best wishes, I love coupon trains, and once they get going smoothly they are awesome!!