When Good Robins Go Bad!

Precautionary measures are the keys to having your project return home safely. If you are mailing within your own country, insure your package as well as other stitchers' packages. Ask the that all stitchers in the Round Robin to do the same. It costs very little and will give your post office the means to trace your project should the need arise. Another option for those in the US is to purchase delivery confirmation.

As soon as the Round Robin group is formed, initiate communication with the members. Continue communicating on a regular basis until the rotations have finished. Create meaningful relationships with the Round Robin group members.

This is easier said than done but, do not join Round Robins with people you do not know. If possible, get to know stitchers on message boards and such beforehand. Those with a personal connection to you are less likely to keep your project.

That being said, let's face, not every Round Robin project returns home to its rightful owner. There are dishonest people in the world and the postal system sometimes loses things.

What can you do when faced with this situation? Unfortunately, there's little you can do, but make sure you do the little:

1) If the stitcher to whom you have mailed your project has not received it within an acceptable amount of time, go to the post office and file the appropriate forms concerning lost mail. If possible, have your post office put a trace on the package.

2) If your project was mailed to you and you have not received it within an acceptable amount of time, ask the stitcher who mailed it to go to her post office and file the appropriate forms concerning lost mail. If possible have her post office put a trace on the package.

3) If the stitcher who has your project seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, continue to e-mail her. If you have her phone number, call her. Send her a postcard. Try to keep your anger in check, and appeal to her conscience. Implore her to return your project.

4) Keep your fingers crossed, pray to your higher power, and hope for the best but expect the worse.