2018 - March 12-16 (Mon-Fri), Care Packages

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• Date: 3/12-16 (Mon-Fri, sales), 3/17 (Sat, packing)
• Event Captains: Rachel Wu (rmwu), Bianca Wang-Polendo (wpbianca)
• Time: 10a-4p (sales); 2-5p (CMart run), 6-9p (packing and delivering)
• Location: Lobby 10 (sales), Next House PDR (packing)

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Contents 1 Description 2 Food 3 Materials 4 Other Notes

Description

Your usual care package event! This semester, we sold 696 packages!!! Yay for industrialized care :)

Everything generally went smoothly, as people knew what to do. Logistics:

• Sales were straightforward. People did things right.
• CMart took our card on the first try this time! Except we heard they're closing soon, so we were only able to buy ~2/3 of the Chocopies there. We bought the rest from HMart.
• We realized packagers don't advertise exact numbers, so we ran out of a few items. In the future, keep a margin of 5% (buy 5% more boxes), instead of just buying 2 boxes across the board.
• Rachel wrote a new Python script for generating online care packages.

Food

The usual care package selection!

Materials

• Care package slips and pens
• Plastic bags for care packages
• Heat sealers (in stud storage)
• Paper cutter (ATS owns one)

Other Notes

• We found even cheaper bags on Amazon, but they are hard to open/seal, since they're smaller. Find larger ones next time.
• We made new slip designs! Which will be left over for next semester. Don't print more.
• CMart is closing soon, so next semester may be different.
• Regex is good. Previous semester forgot to use the newer version from Spring 2017.