My sales
are creeping up at the moment (I think Christmas shopping is already beginning!), which is great of course, but I’m increasingly conscious of how much time I spend packaging orders.
Because I work full time everything is done in the evenings and at weekends, so
most nights before I go to bed I package up any orders outstanding, and even 4 or 5 orders seems to take me half
an hour to take through from on the shelf to ready to post. I think this is too long, considering that I don't have particularly fancy packaging. International orders
are the most time consuming, and since most of my increase in sales is happening on
Etsy, the hours spent sticking, writing, printing, are really starting to encroach on
both making time and sleeping time!
Determined
to do something about it I realised that the two big time-killers are finding
the extra 4 digits for US orders, and printing postage on Royal Mail’s online
site, so I tried to find ways around these.
