Hi, GeorgiaMa'am, glad you brought this up. Here's how I would clarify it:
""For 2016, the rule is
if one of our projects is received by the wrangler more than a week late or drops out of a project for whatever reason, that person is welcome to continue posting but is not allowed to sign up for a group project again until January 1st, 2017. No exceptions. This rule applies to participants and to wranglers. This rule must be posted at the bottom of all new projects that are being wrangled so that members can thoughtfully consider whether we wish to commit to a new project. And for the purposes of clarification, if someone drops out before the deadline to sign up has been closed then they are not excluded from future projects because they are still following the rules."
However, I do not feel this rule applies to Breathless for this current project since Breathless was given the specific instruction to mail on the 29th, and she followed that rule. It would not be fair to ask her to pay more than what traditional mailing costs since she followed the rule.
I personally don't think it's a good idea to say that it has to have a postmark within a week of the due date because then that means someone's project could hold up a mailing out of projects over a week, which seems excessive to me. Also I'd be worried that someone might say, "I mailed it" and we'd have no way of knowing if that were even true. If something must be RECEIVED by a certain date then we know projects will definitely be mailed out within a week of their due date (Again, this project was a special situation because of Gemme's special Leap Year rule.).
In the future, without the special circumstance of the current project, people from other countries can simply plan to mail out by whatever date is needed for the project to arrive on time.
If the majority are okay with it, let's change the paragraph to include the clarified paragraph at the end of every project (the one I started this post with but with the bolded part included).
Thank you for bringing up the need for clarification. It is definitely necessary for future projects.
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Originally Posted by GeorgiaMa'am
Nycfem is quite right, of course it is understandable that breathless's project will take a little longer to arrive.
At this time, I would like to ask for some consensus on the "tardy rule". My understanding was that "a week late" refers to someone mailing out their projects 7 days after the due date - not ensuring that the wrangler receives packages within 7 days of the due date. My reasoning: (1) Since projects mailed on the due date would take several days to reach the wrangler, a package that arrives 7 days after the due date is not really a week late, it's less than a week late. (2) If a person is mailing from a different country than the wrangler, they would not be able to take advantage of the "tardy rule", because the only way they could get it to the wrangler within a week of the due date would be international FedEx, which I believe would be cost prohibitive for most people and unfair.
I believe that the wording of the rule should be clarified. I also understand that it is very annoying and disappointing to receive projects a long time after the due date; I have been annoyed by others in the past, and of course I was late on this recent project (and again, I do apologize for any annoyance you all may have experienced). I believe that fairness would call for allowing a tardy person a full week to mail out their project, and that the postmark should be within 7 days of the due date. However, I was not around for the original discussion, and I may have misunderstood the rule since I wasn't privy to the conversation. Whatever the rule is, I would appreciate the group's clarification. It won't affect whether or not I participate (unless, maybe, the wrangler is in a different country - I would have to carefully consider that); I just want to be clear before signing up for any more projects.
Here is the rule (as a reminder):
"For 2016, the rule is if one of us is more than a week late or drops out of a project for whatever reason, that person is welcome to continue posting but is not allowed to sign up for a group project again until January 1st, 2017. No exceptions. This rule applies to participants and to wranglers. This rule must be posted at the bottom of all new projects that are being wrangled so that members can thoughtfully consider whether we wish to commit to a new project. And for the purposes of clarification, if someone drops out before the deadline to sign up has been closed then they are not excluded from future projects because they are still following the rules."
Thanks for your time and attention.
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