{"id":733,"date":"2010-09-25T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2010-11-11T16:54:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T00:54:46","slug":"working-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2010\/working-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Updates at the end<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> October 8\n<li> October 13\n<li> October 22\n<li> November 11<\/ul>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Well, not really a vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Just somewhat of a break from our regular work.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been super busy here at Anabaptist Bookstore &#8212; <b>many thanks to all our customers!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And now our family is in the throes of moving to another house about eight miles from where we&#8217;ve lived the last six years.<\/p>\n<p>So at this point (Saturday, September 25), we&#8217;re planning to ship some orders on Monday and then (likely) no more shipping until October 6 or so.<\/p>\n<p>However, we will continue to take care of customer service issues as they arise.<\/p>\n<p>And our sites will continue to take your orders. When we resume shipping, we will take care of orders chronologically.<\/p>\n<p>For updates as they are available, please stop by this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your patience.<\/p>\n<p><b>October 8 Update:<\/b> We are in the closing stages of moving. We hope to have completely vacated the &#8220;old&#8221; place by tomorrow evening.<\/p>\n<p>It has taken way longer than anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>For reasons that I might elaborate on more later, only three (instead of five) of us have been working at moving.<\/p>\n<p>It took our new phone company eight days to get us phone and Internet service (instead of the three first indicated). And our service is still suffering from &#8220;issues.&#8221; And I still don&#8217;t have our business line hooked up.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I don&#8217;t see how we can resume business operations before this coming Tuesday. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your patience. I&#8217;m sorry about the extra delay. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><b>October 13 update:<\/b> Now it&#8217;s Wednesday (relative to above&#8217;s Tuesday) and we have high hopes of finally being able to resume shipping tomorrow. This long delay with its various problems has been extremely discouraging to me&#8230;primarily because of the hardship it works on you and on our business.<\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t got our business email fully functional, though I hope to experience success on that by later this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Our business phone line is still not hooked up, but I hope to have that operational by this time tomorrow morning. Alas, I forgot to change our contact forms, so it&#8217;s still giving our old business number. \ud83d\ude41 I&#8217;ll get those fixed after posting this.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I finally was able to get our main business computer connected to the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I&#8217;m sorry this address transition has proven so bad. Thank you for your patience!<\/p>\n<p><b>October 22 update:<\/b> We continue to make slow headway in shipping backlogged orders. But we are making headway! Many thanks to all of you for your patience.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still having issues with our business phone line. If I could at least the voicemail working, that would be great. But at this point, we don&#8217;t even have dial tone in the house. So if you need to contact us, please use email or the form on our contact pages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"\/contact.php\">Contact Us<\/a> &#8212; anabaptistbooks.com\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/rodstaff.com\/contact.php\">Contact Us<\/a> &#8212; rodstaff.com\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>November 11 update:<\/b> Good news: We&#8217;re almost back into a regular shipping routine. And our order backlog has been significantly reduced. I&#8217;m expecting to be completely caught up within a week.<\/p>\n<p>More good news: Our business phone line is finally operational! I put the number online a few minutes ago at the above contact pages.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning no further updates to this particular blog post. Any further updates I plan to put in their own posts, so be sure to check the blog&#8217;s home page. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates at the end October 8 October 13 October 22 November 11 Well, not really a vacation. Just somewhat of a break from our regular work. We&#8217;ve been super busy here at Anabaptist Bookstore &#8212; many thanks to all our customers! 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