I got a nice little note from the post office today to say that something arrived from Cherie and that can only be the Mbag!!!

Unfortunately I can't go and pick it up till Friday!

I have to say it arrived really quickly though!!

Yay!! :bananadance:

Definitely quickly since I mailed it on the 22nd, a week and a day.

At least we know what you'll be doing this weekend, going through 24 lbs worth of books. :lol: Oh and be on the lookout for the Jessica Galbreth bookmark I put inside one of the hardcovers.

FYI, I didn't get the Lemony Snicket book in time to include it so that was sent to Kathy for inclusion in your next m-bag. :)

Enjoy!! :whee: :spin:

WooHoo!!!

That means you have many books to read!!! :giggle:

WOW. 24 lbs of books. That sounds like heaven. :)

I told my boyfriend about the Mbag and he said 'you already have so many books!'

Oooooo!!!! A cool bookmark! I will be looking out for that!

How exiting Amber.
You will have lots of fun opening the Bag and box.

I sometimes miss the M-Bag. Too bad it became so expensive.

(Like everything concerned with mailing out stuff) stupid post office :angry: :whip:

Christmas in January!! Or is Friday Feb. 1 in Vienna? :shrug:

Have fun diving into that box of bookies!! I hope this raises your spirits :hug: - sorry to hear life is handing you lemons. Things will get better soon! :kiss:

It will be the 1st of Feb tomorrow when I go and pick it up! It will be a nice end to a horrible week and it will make the weekend nice before another week from hell starts on Monday!

Thank you for your kind words! It looks like my job is safe but there is still alot of stuff going on that could change things and alot of stuff is still up in the air.

Well I just carried the M-Bag all the way home from the Post Office! It was heavy!!!

I already opened it up and every book I took out made me smile!!! This is the perfect way to end my week!!

I will start making journals later. I need to eat first though!

Thank you again Cherie! And thank you everyone for sending your books along to make the bag full!

In the beginning, when we first started doing m-bags back in the bookrelay days, many of the m-bag organizers would come up short when sending out because many people would forget or conveniently overlook to enclose the $1. And thus the concern about people overpaying under the new rates was thought to be invalid. No way is an m-bag organizer ever coming to get away without coming up out-of-pocket, it was thought! :nono:

Know however that in the case of the m-bag which was just sent and received by Amber under these new rates, and despite the fact that Amber had requested a number of BookMooch books which didn't have any $ to go along with (she just mooched them to my US address and paid only the 1 point), I was not short anything when all was said and done. The total weight of her Austria m-bag was 23 lb 4.8 oz for a grand total of $68.40. (And I had $72 collected in the envelope, $74 really counting the $2 I'd inadvertently left in one of the books.) :blush:

I have to say that when I saw how much the postage cost when I picked up the Mbag I nearly fainted!!! However when I saw the list with all the $$$ that had been paid I realised it must have come up even.

So I guess people should see that Mbags can work even with the new rates!

I must have read this wrong. Did you just say that we paid for Amber's mooched books also? Because if so, shouldn't she be paying for those :shrug:

Not you, per se. But I had a few people, like KathyB for instance who's doing Amber's m-bag now, who sent me like 5 or 6 different shipments of books for Amber, and each time another $2 or $3, one time a $5. I didn't track Kathy's books separately, but I should've, because if all those books (I think at least 10 were from her) were all in one group together, and she went by poundage, she would've paid a lot less. (So I told Amber to mail the extra $2 I had left in one of the books back to her next time she mails something to Kathy.)

Also, other people like Lemonitsa threw in a $5 and told me to keep the change. So all those little overages made up for the mooched books as well, which were supposed to come out of my pocket. (And then Amber was gonna pay me back.)


ETA - Also, other than the mooched books, everyone else included $. And that was something I heard was always a problem with previous m-baggers. That they'd only collect from like 65% to 75% of the people.

ETA2 - Just counted from the backpack list, since now I was way curious too. Kathy sent a total of 14 books, over 10 different shipments to me, and a total of $31. I did have the info to figure that out. What I didn't have is the weights for each book of hers that she sent. But you can see why I encouraged KathyB to do Amber's next m-bag.