Gift card order arrived in mail today after less than a week! The earnings have been posting pretty quickly too.

So after a 2000 point Office Depot order a week or so ago (posted right away) I was sitting on around 14k points. So I started looking around for the roughly $100 worth of whatever I wanted to get. A few things take fewer points than others to get the same value, obviously, but I was hunting for something I would 100% definitely use without going out of the way. Settled on Darden Restaurants gift cards, cos we're suckers for Bahama Breeze. In the redemption chart, you'll only see Olive Garden and Red Lobster, I think, but these cards are also good at Smokey Bones and Bahama Breeze (this fact is noted on the award page once you click through), the latter being decidedly a cut above the others in our opinion. So 14k points gets me $100 worth as ten $10 cards. I put this order in maybe over last weekend, no earlier than Friday night. Standard disclaimer of 4-6 weeks to receive. No problem, I can wait. But the cards arrived by US mail today!

I am still waiting for my resturant GC redemption which was "mailed" on 5/3/05. I sent a followup email to MyPoints last week and was told I had to wait 6 weeks from the sent date before another followup. This is the first time ever that I have to wait this long for nothing from Mypoints.

To be fair, MyPoints has been very prompt for all my other reward redemptions.

All of the rewards that I have claimed from Mypoints have also arrived very quickly. There has been many posts of people taht have beeen waiting weeks or longer to receive gift cards from them.

I have always received MyPoints redemptions within ~2 weeks. I guess I'm lucky.

My last several Marriott point certificates have arrived within a week. I was very pleased.

My last order for 40 x 1000 MR Marriott certificates plus 4 x $50 Home Depot gift cards arrived in 7 days - was delivered FedEx two-day, no less! Guess they didn't want to take a chance with so much value, of the package getting misplaced by the USPS!!!

How many MyPoints did you redeem all at once?

96000 points. The 10 points per dollar for Overstock.com really made my day - two of my friends were building new homes and were "persuaded" to buy their rugs through Overstock.com (they do have fabulous Oriental rugs - I have several at home) - anyway, they each got one beautiful silk/wool rug that cost $3800 - so, that purchase alone netted me 76000 points

Between that and some strategically timed Office Depot and Hewlett Packard purchases for the office, I actually managed to get these points in a relatively short time period.

Wow! Good on ya, mate! ^

I have only redeemed MyPoints for Hilton HHonors points, but they too seem to be posting to my account much faster (2 days) than before (a week plus). ^

For a while, I just earned MyPoints without purchases--- now I make a lot of purchases using the MyPoints portal.

When I earned enough points for gift card redemption by simply clicking on the 5 free points and signing up for free no-strings, offers I've noticed that it took weeks and weeks to getting the certs. When I later earned the standard 5 free points, and made some purchases, I noticed that the gift cards arrived in a week or less, as others here have reported.

Maybe the secret to getting your giftcards fast is by making purchases through the MyPoints portal, instead of just earning free 5 points per message and not making any purchases. @:-)

At least that what my experiences lead me to believe.

I redeemed for a hyatt gift check a little more than a week ago - it arrived yesterday. ^^

just curious what's themost points anyone has redeemed total?

Points earned = 120615
Points redeemed = 107500