October and November Prints Shipping Update 2! (Aghhh) (Patreon)

Hello all!

Matt here, with another update about the October (and by extension, November) art prints.

They've been delayed even more than they were before due to several external factors out of our control:

• The prints arrived very late to us, due to loads of delays by the courier. 
• After initial packaging and signing, prints were finally shipped from Daniel's to mine (We have to forward them for logistical reasons), and during transit the package got heavily damaged and broke open, and we lost about 50 of the prints. We still have just enough to fulfill everyone, but no spares for now (We do have other spares though, so we can still do replacements).
• I need to affix stamps to each envelope. Due to the sheer number of stamps needed, we can only get them from the Royal Mail online store. I ordered all the stamps three weeks ago, and they have still not arrived. They're not likely to arrive for at least another 5 days due to the continuing regular Royal Mail strikes. 
• Further to that, there are also several Royal Mail strikes, causing delays, backups, and a lot of periods in which we simply can't ship things. This is on top of an already huge amount of backups in the UKs various postal systems due to the Christmas period.

All of those elements have coalesced together into a perfect storm of delays. I know it's incredibly frustrating for these to be taking so long to even ship (a frustration we share), but I hope you can all appreciate how out of our control all of this is. This is an issue facing most UK businesses and just everyone generally. 

I'm working very hard to get these October prints out ASAP (they even include a Christmas card as a bonus!), however at this point they might not even get shipped until January if the stamps for them don't arrive in the next 5 days. However even if I were able to ship them today, it's quite likely they wouldn't arrive for 90% of you until after Christmas due to all the postal backlogs.

The november prints are also delayed for similar reasons, and will likely ship not long after the October prints. We should be back on schedule by February (Assuming the UK doesn't implode), but AGHHHHH.

I'll make a post on here when the October prints ship (and another when the November prints go out), but I just wanted you all to know why they're taking so long, and what to expect.

- Matt