[Lroy]

Can we ask our Secret Santa what does he wants or needs ?
I'm quite usre, that most of you on here - apart me ahaha - have all streetart and graffti artworks !
Can we send culinary specialties as Choucroute parties per example ?

[kjg]

Dec 1, 2021 9:06:16 GMT 1 kjg said:

My 1,5 kilograms of goodies are crossing the sea right at this moment :-)

And it arrived in its country of destination an hour ago :-)

[Lazarus II]

Dec 1, 2021 19:18:39 GMT 1 mattmma22 said:

Dec 1, 2021 15:51:43 GMT 1 Lroy said:

Can we ask our Secret Santa what does he wants or needs ?
I'm quite usre, that most of you on here - apart me ahaha - have all streetart and graffti artworks !
Can we send culinary specialties as Choucroute parties per example ?

u can send whatever u like, plus there’s an option in the SS site i used 2 message them anonymously, so u can ask them anything, but the way u type, there’s no way ur SS won’t b able 2 identify u!😅

you really think you were anonymous? More chance of identifying you by your typing than Royston and that is saying something.

[Acme Thunderer]

Safely received my Secret Santa today which I’m looking forward to opening on Christmas Day. Thank you very much to the forum member who has sent to me 😊

[inefficiency of]

Sent part 1 of mine off yesterday, and just waiting on the last little bit to arrive. Fingers crossed it arrives in time to post. 🎄

[Lroy]

Dec 1, 2021 23:58:41 GMT 1 mattmma22 said:

Dec 1, 2021 21:33:36 GMT 1 Lazarus II said:

you really think you were anonymous? More chance of identifying you by your typing than Royston and that is saying something.

u sound bitter that u missed out on the fun this year…. maybe next year!!!! ✌🏻&❤️&🎅🏻

Lazarus II is Da man.

[kjg]

It's good to know that some already arrived :-)

And a shout out to all that did not send theirs yet: please do your duty.

[Buttercup NYC]

I sent mine last week!

[Lroy]

This Santa looks a bit tyrannic !
There are bosses on here or what ?! ( Coach where are you ? )
I never had boss and I hate working.
We are the 2 of december, some have problems, the 25 of december is in 20 days ?! so all is ok, we are not kids.
I should be damned if my SS won't receive it on the 24.
I have no order to receive from everybody, I never received orders anyway.

Cool guys !
Maybe you have times in your confortable jobs, not me, and I am a proletarian !

so Cool... WTH ! We are supposed to be friends !

Is is Santa or Hell santa ?

Peace.

[Buttercup NYC]

Dec 2, 2021 18:20:42 GMT 1 Lroy said:

This Santa looks a bit tyrannic !
There are bosses on here or what ?! ( Coach where are you ? )
I never had boss and I hate working.
We are the 2 of december, some have problems, the 25 of december is in 20 days ?! so all is ok, we are not kids.
I should be damned if my SS won't receive it on the 24.
I have no order to receive from everybody, I never received orders anyway.

Cool guys !
Maybe you have times in your confortable jobs, not me, and I am a proletarian !

so Cool... WTH ! We are supposed to be friends !

Is is Santa or Hell santa ?

Peace.

LOL Lroy - just as an FYI the post office person said that the package will take a few weeks to cross the pond, so I'm glad I got it out early. If your SS is near your geographic location, you're ok but if not HO BOYY!

[kjg]

Chill out, Lroy. It’s just a heads up. In this time of year it can sometimes take a little longer before packages arrive. 18 days will pass sooner than you think.

[Lroy]

Dec 2, 2021 18:30:21 GMT 1 Buttercup NYC said:

Dec 2, 2021 18:20:42 GMT 1 Lroy said:

This Santa looks a bit tyrannic !
There are bosses on here or what ?! ( Coach where are you ? )
I never had boss and I hate working.
We are the 2 of december, some have problems, the 25 of december is in 20 days ?! so all is ok, we are not kids.
I should be damned if my SS won't receive it on the 24.
I have no order to receive from everybody, I never received orders anyway.

Cool guys !
Maybe you have times in your confortable jobs, not me, and I am a proletarian !

so Cool... WTH ! We are supposed to be friends !

Is is Santa or Hell santa ?

Peace.

LOL Lroy - just as an FYI the post office person said that the package will take a few weeks to cross the pond, so I'm glad I got it out early. If your SS is near your geographic location, you're ok but if not HO BOYY!

This is not against you my friend, on the contrary, I am just criticizing the hold that some have on this thread: and I am answering to them, Cool! I think that 's it's personnal anyway ( vexations, angriness, no trust etc.. Never saw that in my life, a gift is a gift - we have not to show our payday )

I m more than 62 so please, no moral lessons! I will unbokmarked this thread (and i am not alone to think this - I wont show you private messsages), it's not anymore a Santa it's an alarm! I received stickers last year and I didn't say everything about that !  I sent this same year geat gifts too to my other Santa !

Another year, I had received drawings from an "artist", ok well, erm, I respect ...

I mean, it's Christmas, and I'm not going to send a paypal payment and show the bill to the whole forum. Duty free.

Frankly, - and we can see why the old guard of the forum ( FЯ per example, extremly genrerous as some others, did not take part in this year's Santa - we should almost send the bill.

+ Most of those people (all of them? I won't quote ) are no longer here and share information with each other on Discord, they're just coming back for that Santa, and bragging about their freebies.

A little humility, kindness, sympathy would be good in these difficult times, where each of our governments now already has its king and gives orders to the people! This is not the kind of message we send to a suffering people, when its time to have good time and nice surprise.

So please, no more orders( real orders ) , just only kind advises as yours my friend.

Art became this mercantile thing, flipping etc.. It's sad.

Good nite all

[kjg]

Dec 2, 2021 21:12:47 GMT 1 mattmma22 said:

Dec 2, 2021 18:30:21 GMT 1 Buttercup NYC said:

LOL Lroy - just as an FYI the post office person said that the package will take a few weeks to cross the pond, so I'm glad I got it out early. If your SS is near your geographic location, you're ok but if not HO BOYY!

hence my ENTIRE reasoning behind starting n ending the SS early, so everybody can get their stuff straightened out then mailed away with time 2 spare, as this is an international SS plus we all know how lax the delivery services have been since covid, PLUS it’s getting on toward the holiday season, slowing EVERYTHING down….

i’m glad at least some of u c the method in my madness….

also i live in a democracy…. i respect the power of voting, so next year y’all want somebody else 2 run it, find somebody ready willing n responsive/receptive 2 take on the responsibility of running the SS, hold a vote on it in this thread, vote me out, vote them in, then let them have the thankless job of trying 2 wrangle 2 dozen strangers across the globe 2 send presents out….

p.s. i have not gotten my gift nor have i cheated 2 find out whom my SS is😤
(there’s an option on the SS site that if i click on, i can view all the matches, god mode basically lol, i have not used it, have no plans 2, unless dec25th arrives n ppl have t gotten gifts, then that info will b public 2 weed out the grinches💪🏻

I think you are doing a very good job. Thanks again!

[Street Arted 2020]

That dude is extra…

[ADC]

Sent mine off this morning 🥳

[Lroy]

1 kilo 987 gr. ( 1,987 )

[Lroy]

Dec 3, 2021 19:00:57 GMT 1 mattmma22 said:

Dec 3, 2021 18:14:23 GMT 1 Lroy said:

1 kilo 987 gr. ( 1,987 )

mine weighed at least 10kilos… ask sgolby 😅

You sent a bag of potatoes ?

Anyway hope that my US Santa, made like me, notifying " gift " and writing a low value ( I said 24 e fo the all ) )

[kjg]

Dec 3, 2021 19:36:19 GMT 1 Lroy said:

Dec 3, 2021 19:00:57 GMT 1 mattmma22 said:

mine weighed at least 10kilos… ask sgolby 😅

You sent a bag of potatoes ?

Anyway hope that my US Santa, made like me, notifying " gift " and writing a low value ( I said 24 e fo the all ) )

Yes, I did that too :-)

[Lroy]

Dec 3, 2021 1:44:39 GMT 1 Street Arted 2020 said:

That dude is extra…

Who ? Me ?

I m sure of that since I'm walking !

Thank you !

[Lroy]

Dec 3, 2021 18:14:23 GMT 1 Lroy said:

1 kilo 987 gr. ( 1,987 )

no, 2 kilos 987 gr ( 2,987 )

[Icecream Man]

Last piece came in today. Shipping tomorrow or Monday. Luckily it’s staying stateside so my recipient should have it in hand by end of next week!

[sidtrix]

I’ve received my Secret Santa (will open on the 24th)

Mines been posted off today, it’s got a long, long way to travel… across the Atlantic Ocean
Ho ho ho, hopefully it’s the thought that counts, tried to make it a bit more personal

[sidtrix]

I initially added a pack of gold award winning British tea but unfortunately at time of posting, customs told me… “computer says no”, so had to take it out

[Lroy]

Dec 3, 2021 21:51:30 GMT 1 sidtrix said:

I initially added a pack of gold award winning British tea but unfortunately at time of posting, customs told me… “computer says no”, so had to take it out

Incredible ! Why ?

[sidtrix]

Apparently tea is a banned item to post using Royal Mail, must have been a parting gift by Trump, b4 he departed peacefully from office lol

[Lroy]

Dec 4, 2021 2:35:35 GMT 1 mattmma22 said:

Dec 4, 2021 0:40:30 GMT 1 sidtrix said:

Apparently tea is a banned item to post using Royal Mail, must have been a parting gift by Trump, b4 he departed peacefully from office lol

u have 2 give them a detailed itinerary of what’s inside the box? wow…. that’s illegal 4 them 2 even ask in america…. only if it’s hazardous or fragile…. they can ask that…. but “what’s inside the box?” they can’t even ask that in the states….

In France they ask... ( not even for customs, now everybody is a cop or a snictch, covid or not )

[Lroy]

Dec 4, 2021 12:42:36 GMT 1 mattmma22 said:

Dec 4, 2021 9:20:07 GMT 1 Lroy said:

In France they ask... ( not even for customs, now everybody is a cop or a snictch, covid or not )

yes but if u show up 2 post with a sealed box, tell them it’s gifts, or clothes, or books, is it a crime if u lie? that makes no sense 2 me, unless ur sending something volatile like lithium batteries or ammo or alcohol, i understand, we ship those in the states as well but with proper hazmat forms n delivery fees, but can’t u just not say what’s in the box if it’s not harmful? just lie? or do they go as far as opening it 4 inspection?

lol t's not so easy.

They have scan that can see everything, dogs that can smell anything etc ;..

I sent art y the past, it nevers arrived (  bottle to Dale Marshall, C215 spray can etc.. ) , and i recevied a mail telling me that they have been destroyed.

Lie ? machines don't lie

[Lroy]

Dec 4, 2021 19:19:27 GMT 1 mattmma22 said:

Dec 4, 2021 14:37:16 GMT 1 Lroy said:

lol t's not so easy.

They have scan that can see everything, dogs that can smell anything etc ;..

I sent art y the past, it nevers arrived (  bottle to Dale Marshall, C215 spray can etc.. ) , and i recevied a mail telling me that they have been destroyed.

Lie ? machines don't lie

that’s insane, can’t open somebody’s packages or scan them without a warrant in america…. that’s utter rubbish they just look in ur box like that, invasion of privacy imo

ah ! Mattmat ! woke up !

hey, that s not me that make laws, no rules.. Don(t dispute me, tue package has been posted !

[Lroy]

Dec 4, 2021 19:37:38 GMT 1 sicklypete said:

Dec 4, 2021 19:19:27 GMT 1 mattmma22 said:

that’s insane, can’t open somebody’s packages or scan them without a warrant in america…. that’s utter rubbish they just look in ur box like that, invasion of privacy imo

If I send you a package from the UK to the USA, it certainly will be scanned by US customs without your permission and without the need for a warrant. Similarly,  going back to your post from earlier, if you send me a package from the US to the UK you *will* need to declare the contents of the package, and it will then be scanned on arrival in the UK.

1200% agree.. Matmat as always is in his NFT pokemon or other things, dreaming maybe ahah ... I will go to visit you in NY ! My family lives near Chicago !

[Jules Leotard]

Dec 4, 2021 22:29:58 GMT 1 mattmma22 said:

Dec 4, 2021 19:37:38 GMT 1 sicklypete said:

If I send you a package from the UK to the USA, it certainly will be scanned by US customs without your permission and without the need for a warrant. Similarly,  going back to your post from earlier, if you send me a package from the US to the UK you *will* need to declare the contents of the package, and it will then be scanned on arrival in the UK.

yes, international packages, i’m talking about inside the country, they still scan n ask those? i’ve never even heard of that happening here….

I think there is a large delta between what freedom you perceive you have and the freedom you have.  Internationally, I sent myself 15 packages at around 100lbs each.  Three were opened and customs used their tape to seal them back up.  I thought that was forthright. 

Domestically, USPS is all over you.  Fedex and UPS less so.  If you ever send a mailing using media mail rate and try to send anything other than books or cd's (can't have adverts in them), you have a 50-50 of being snagged.  They scan everything and 100% can identify you (and your handwriting) better than you can.  If you mess with it at all, they have a file on you.  I wouldn't ever mess the with the IRS or USPS.  Ever.

Long story short, if you are bending any rules, better bent with Fedex, DHL, or UPS.