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Secret Santa 2016 Official Thread!

Old Nov 20, 2016, 1:21 am
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Remember this is an unofficial record and that you must PM wharvey when you ship and receive gifts as per the rules in the first post!
This is an unofficial wiki maintained by steveman518. Please fill in gifts you've received if you can. However if you can't, steveman518 will check every post-PM for questions as well
Basic photo upload tutorial (if you choose not to upload directly to Flyertalk)
Find a site to upload your photo to another site
Direct copy the link of the photo or right click on the image and select "copy image URL" or "copy image address". Make sure that the link ends with .jpg/.tif or any other image extension (there may be issues with google images)
Place that link in between the
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3furballs #1
Annexation #1
annielee #1
AtomicLush #1 (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)
Bravada04 #1
BXIAN #1 (part 2) #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
Catman #1
CDTraveler #1 #2
Chink400 #1 #2
ckidder 331 #1 #2 #3
compubit #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
CPH-Flyer #1 #2
DeepUnderground #1
DevilDawg1960 #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
dibby #1 #2 #3
diburning #1 #2
dogdogcatcat #1
Dogmatick #1
durberville #1 #2
financialhippie #1
Flyiboy #1 #2
FlyingCow #1 (part 2) #2 #3
fnaime23 #1 #2
fralcole #1
genoa #1
Glamette #1
grbflyer #1 #2
Gregor #1
gsegall #1 #2
HockeyMom93 #1
horizontal #1
jamesteroh #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
jetset09 #1
Jinxy #1 #2
jondabomb #1 #2
kauppias #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
kevinflyaway #1 #2
kipper #1 (part 2) (part 3) #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
kolican #1
laguna1 #1
Lakee911 #1
linzbh #1
Lisabeth #1 #2 #3 #4
lksf #1
malexander131 #1
MappingChick #1
Marcia3641 #1
mdovenmuehler #1 #2
Middle_Kingdom #1
miffSC #1 #2 #3
miko2a #1 #2
MissChele #1
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MrDplus #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7
nomadic.relief #1 #2
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oliver2002 #1
onfo #1
onthewaytoadventure #1 #2
pbjag #1 (part 2) #2
poohbear808 #1
poptarts #1 (part 2)
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Ricecakes #1
Richard Chen #1
RockinRon #1 #2
Runner123 #1 (part 2)
samosa #1 #2
sandratravels #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
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Secret Santa 2016 Official Thread!

Old Nov 14, 2016, 9:44 am
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I'm hoping that my gift ideas go over well, too. I don't want anyone to be disappointed so hopefully after pondering this and placing orders today I'm on the right track!
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Old Nov 14, 2016, 10:57 am
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Global forum, small world... received my assignment! Let the brainstoming (and cyber-sleuthing) commence!
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Old Nov 14, 2016, 5:29 pm
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Yay! I'm so excited to shop!
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Old Nov 14, 2016, 7:16 pm
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hahaahhaha this is going to be fun this year! And quite bizarre without wharvey knowing, but one of my giftees lives 5 mins away from my office. And considering the size of Australia I find that hilariously funny!
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Old Nov 15, 2016, 6:40 am
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Let the shopping begin!!!
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Old Nov 15, 2016, 7:21 am
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I am excited-- this year I actually got 1 repeat giftee from last year so I actually have last year's more thorough info to augment this year's.
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Old Nov 15, 2016, 9:44 am
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What makes you think I did not know dear?

Originally Posted by Jinxy
hahaahhaha this is going to be fun this year! And quite bizarre without wharvey knowing, but one of my giftees lives 5 mins away from my office. And considering the size of Australia I find that hilariously funny!
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Old Nov 15, 2016, 9:52 am
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Originally Posted by Jinxy
hahaahhaha this is going to be fun this year! And quite bizarre without wharvey knowing, but one of my giftees lives 5 mins away from my office. And considering the size of Australia I find that hilariously funny!
Talk about small world....
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Old Nov 15, 2016, 10:07 am
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If I am using Amazon for some of my gifts is it acceptable to have Amazon ship it directly to the recipient or are we suppose to have it shipped to us and then ship it forward?

I have never used Amazon for shipping as a secret santa before and not even sure if they could mail it without show the identity of the shipper and I want to make sure the recipient knows its from their FT secret santa
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Old Nov 15, 2016, 10:09 am
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Yes, you can have Amazon ship direct to your giftee. No sense in multiple shipping costs.

I believe you can have it shipped as a "gift" and put a Secret Santa message in it... but sure others more knowledgeable will post to correct me!

Originally Posted by jamesteroh
If I am using Amazon for some of my gifts is it acceptable to have Amazon ship it directly to the recipient or are we suppose to have it shipped to us and then ship it forward?

I have never used Amazon for shipping as a secret santa before and not even sure if they could mail it without show the identity of the shipper and I want to make sure the recipient knows its from their FT secret santa
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Old Nov 15, 2016, 12:49 pm
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Originally Posted by wharvey
Yes, you can have Amazon ship direct to your giftee. No sense in multiple shipping costs.

I believe you can have it shipped as a "gift" and put a Secret Santa message in it... but sure others more knowledgeable will post to correct me!
Yes, I've done this before. You can include a gift note and simply sign it FT Santa
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Old Nov 15, 2016, 12:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Redhead
Yes, I've done this before. You can include a gift note and simply sign it FT Santa
YEs, please include that it is the FT Santa. I've had a few items show up and was confused over where they were from.
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Old Nov 15, 2016, 1:14 pm
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Originally Posted by Redhead
Yes, I've done this before. You can include a gift note and simply sign it FT Santa
Thanks!
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Old Nov 15, 2016, 1:45 pm
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First gift shipped!!!!
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Old Nov 15, 2016, 1:50 pm
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Originally Posted by wharvey
Yes, you can have Amazon ship direct to your giftee. No sense in multiple shipping costs.

I believe you can have it shipped as a "gift" and put a Secret Santa message in it... but sure others more knowledgeable will post to correct me!
Last year some of my Secret Santa gifts came directly from Amazon. On the packing list was some of code that I scanned with my phone to send a thank-you note direct to the giver. First time I'd seen that, but I thought it nice to be able to directly thank the sender.
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