SIXTY.

So for the past two days, we’ve been making Jelly Jars on a non-stop basis and shipping to almost every state in the continental United States. And it is well documented that Jelly Jars are our most time consuming project…as efficient as we become in other areas of PJP, jars are an arduous process. The baking of the jars is the easiest part…it’s the cleaning, stickering, and packaging of the adorable little suckers that slows us down.

Usually while Team PJP starts to clean jars and tie the small forks, I head to my office to print all of the shipping labels and write the note cards. (Convenient for me, no?). And since we upgraded to a thermal printer, creating shipping labels is usually a quick process. I am mostly a nerd by nature, so I enjoy seeing the destination of each box. Until yesterday.

Yesterday, UPS was experiencing an issue that for every one shipping label I asked for, it printed SIXTY. 60 labels to the same person at the same address, even though I just asked for one shipping label to that one person at that address. For the first few rounds, I assumed I was making some sort of error by accidentally clicking a box on the webpage. By the 10th round and one replacement roll of stickers in, I called Behind-The-Scenes Jason in a panic. He drove all the way in to determine he had no idea why the printer just kept shooting out labels and it would take a call to UPS to figure it out and he didn’t have time. And because we all know that I’m impatient on my best of days, I wasn’t about to call UPS tech support and try to explain that I had printed 600 labels in a quest for just 10. Now that I re-read that, I realize that sounds really pathetic…but I’m all about honesty here. I really just don’t have the patience for a technology based conversation on my best days, let alone ones where my fingertips are still singed from hot jars.

So I endeavored forth until the entire UPS screen seized up on my third to last label entry (and hundreds of labels and four rolls of stickers into the project). So I closed it all out and logged back in and entered the next label information and it printed ONE. So I don’t even know how or why I wasted a bunch of time and hundreds of labels for it to finally fix itself on the last three labels. I bet UPS doesn’t either. I’m proclaiming the entire debacle as the fault of UPS.

(PS…We shredded all the extra labels, in case you were curious.)

(PPS…I watched Tik Tok while the extra 59 of each label printed, so not all was lost.)