SPIF X SLIPPI Update 2

Boy were we optimistic 😓

Hello again, far flung friends and/or herpetological enthusiasts (look it up);
I/we return with the news we didn't expect to have to give. Why, last time you sat and graced this web page, I told you you'd be receiving your long-awaited pre-order items by now, clip-clipping them from your belt loops or balancing them on yours heads, hopefully this late in the game slipping on your beautiful creme-colored boxy tee to wear out into the sun-sprung morgen and lay upon the grass in; but tough alas, we bring once more the heavy news of delay.

>Now, before you set your sails to disappointment, let me relay some otherwise good news:
the first two batches of pre-orders have shipped and (for the most part) should all have arrived at their destinations. This includes every solo Keystrap, Coaster, and Hat order, or any combination of those three. 

For every Hat, Jacket, or combo order of multiple and early Slippi orders, we've included a v. special 1/500 limited edition box; please know that we tried to accommodate for every order, but we were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of y'all's support. Next time (inshallah) we'll prepare for the extra love. Some of these boxes made it relatively unscathed; some were sacrificed on the altar of the postal delivery gods; we hope our silly little bonus made it to you safe, but forgiveness for any dents and blemishes; we knew they'd be cute, we didn't think them so fragile, but really, it's not the outside that counts, but what's on the inside. 

OK; enough stalling. 
Tees and Jackets? That's the last thing we're waiting on. We shipped everything else, we've received our packaging, our thank you cards, the mailers to deliver them in; now we're just awaiting for the last items to arrive from our producers overseas. And you know what, they're in en route! When we set an expectation for mid-March to fulfill final pre-orders, we were actually pretty on schedule to do so. Now, we did close pre-orders kinda late to ensure that every last customer got exactly the size they needed, and we did order a few extra to handle the size exchanges we will inevitably face, and we did do one last tweak to our sample before the final production go-ahead; but all that being said we did not expect this amount of delay to afflict our shipments across the board. Truly, what could it be that caused chaos into our production line, slowed down all our shipments through extended customs and border inspections, leaves us in a certain limbo about whether we'll even get our packages or if they lie beholden to some nefarious unnecessary import tariff tax that threatens the very health and nature of our small little business? 

Couldn't tell ya folks 👐 you'll have to do your own research on it 👆.

SO; I'd like to notify all the outstanding orders that your packages are neither lost, shipped and missing, stolen by porch pirates and vengeful foes, nor stuck in an abandoned holding cell in the back of a UPS department; they're just slow cruising their way home before we can send them on to their final destination. 

I have my own internal projections, but we saw how that turned out last time 😅
But we're hoping for soon, no more than a month at the latest tbh; soon as they get to us, we're wasting no time to pass them on to you, believe it!

Thank you all once again, for the patience, the patronage, the perseverance, the perspicacity; we are just as eager to get these last orders to their happy homes as you are.

Well wishes, practice self-care, don't sell out, yadda yadda.
ty. take care.