The Unglamorous Part of Sending 500 Gifts
Picking the gift is the fun part. Getting hundreds of gifts to hundreds of people? That is where things get interesting.
Bad addresses. Apartment numbers. Remote employees. People who moved. International addresses. Weather. Delivery exceptions. Someone who entered their office address even though they work from home. And, inevitably, “mine never arrived.”
None of this is particularly glamorous. But it has an enormous effect on whether a gifting program feels effortless or becomes somebody’s full-time job for two weeks.
Why logistics deserve a seat at the table
The logistics are part of the gift. A beautiful box delivered three weeks after the holiday is a worse gift than a modest one that landed on time. And the person organizing the program should not spend December chasing tracking numbers.
We think about the logistics almost as much as the gift itself, because a gift that does not arrive is not a gift. It is a support ticket.
How we handle it
Ideally, you send us the list. Names, addresses, quantities, any personal notes. We take it from there: consolidating orders, verifying what can be verified, building the shipping plan around delivery dates, handling warm-weather considerations for chocolate, and dealing with the exceptions as they come up.
Then you get back to your actual job. That is the goal.
If you are planning to send gifts to more than a handful of people, ask your gifting partner how they handle address problems before you order, not after. The answer tells you a lot about how December is going to go.
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