2017 - March 15-17 (Wed-Fri), Care Packages

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  • Date: 3/15-17 (Wed-Fri, sales), 3/18 (Sat, packing)
  • Event Captains: Lawrence Wong (lcwong), Qingmei (May) Wu (qingmei)
  • Time: 10a-5p (sales); 12-4p (CMart run), 5:30-9p (packing and delivering)
  • Location: Lobby 10 (sales), Next House PDR (packing)

Contents

Description

Your usual care package event! This semester, we sold 614 packages. Yay for industrialized care :)

Everything generally went smoothly, as people knew what to do. Logistics:

  • Sales were straightforward. People did things right.
  • Our snack shopping (at CMart) was quite the struggle, as cards kept getting rejected. Next time, pay by check or something? Or bring enough credit cards! (Li + Lawrence + May had all their cards rejected, so Rachel and Tony Uber'd from campus to pay; we ended up paying with three credit cards and $187 cash aggregated from five people's wallets.)
  • We loaded the groceries onto two Ubers. One was completely full (trunk and back seats); the other fit a few more snacks and most people.
  • Sweatshop went smoothly, although emotions ran high for the first half hour or so. Don't forget to bring a paper cutter!

Food

The usual care package selection!

Materials

  • Care package slips and pens
  • Plastic bags for care packages
  • Heat sealers (in stud storage)
  • Paper cutter (borrowed from Next House desk)

Other Notes

  • The cellophane bags we usually order from Amazon didn't arrive on time, so Li had to make a bunch of Uber trips to buy bags herself. The silver lining is that the new bags were way better and cheaper. Yay!
  • It appears we have a lot of slips left over, so probably don't need to make more.
  • When generating care package slips from the online responses, ensure all pages are printed. We dropped seven pages of slips, which Rachel and Tony printed out and packaged afterwards.
  • Next time, we can order from CMart in advance an estimated amount of snacks. Surplus can be diverted to other events, and shortages can be made up for by a supplementary CMart run.
  • The slip generation script is rather janky (e.g. because we delimit messages by expressions like 1) or 2), some emoji caused parsing issues). Write a new script?
  • Also, the printed slips were all different sizes, so we had to cut each individual sheet separately. If we make a new script, we can make all the slips the same size for easy cutting.
  • Save as many lychee jars as we can for CPW Activities Midway (topping holding) and for Bobafest (tea holding)!
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