We have some unexpected and sad news about the future of our
Paper Department. The company that we contracted with to take
over the warehousing and shipping of our paper orders last year,
contacted us on Thursday. They said that they would no longer
be able to process and ship our smaller orders, as they were losing
too much money on them. When they had agreed to do it, they apparently
had no idea that we would be sending them so many small orders
(even though we warned them). We did our best to try and figure
out a way for them to be profitable and still be able to process
the orders, but there was really no way out. They apparently are
set up to handle larger orders, and they just had no idea how
labor intense the little orders were going to be.
We managed to convince them to continue to process orders until
the end of the month as the site is currently set up (no minimum
with a small order fee of $7.50 for orders under $100.00). The
deadline to get orders in under the current system is March 30th
at 1pm (pacific). Once that deadline has passed we will only be
able to accept orders that are $200 or more.
For those of you who have been with us a long time, you will
know that this minimum is now double what it was a year ago. We
know that this high minimum will not be reachable for the majority
of our smaller accounts. This whole situation has made us incredibly
frustrated and sad. We have always done our best to provide good
service for an affordable price and now we cannot do that for
so many of our smaller loyal customers. We are quite frankly just
sick about this.
If you recently bought a 2012 swatchbook from us and will not
be able to use it, please contact us at CPG@pacific.net
We are offering a buy-back program for the books.
Once again we are so very sorry about this new change, and wish
we could avoid the upset we know this will cause many of you.
Sincerely,
KD Good
Owner
California Paper Goods
Final Note: This change only affects the paper websites
CApaper.com and TheCardHouse.net
All our other sites are will carry on without any changes. |