Comment: I have received your card in the meantime - you wrote it on your wedding day, but only posted it on the 22nd of April. So sorry to still rate you down, but please send on time!

Comment: 2/25/14: Reluctantly changing the rating to a 3 since I did finally receive the swap items last week (almost 14 months past the due date). While I give her credit for finally resolving this, I was expected to come online immediately to change the rating (and she messaged me several times) but did not give me the courtesy to see why I hadn't come on (I had no computer for over a week due to a windows crash). I waited 14 months for the items, waiting a week for a rerate was not out of line (perhaps I was away, or sick/hurt like she was last year when the swap was due). 1/27/14: Was asked again to rerate but swap items still have not been received after numerous promises. It is now 13 months after the swap and unfortunately either the post office has lost numerous swaps or they have not been sent. Perhaps when resending lost swaps one should use delivery tracking/confirmation to ensure that they are received. 12/16/13: Cannot rerate as items were never received. Unfortunately, almost two months after the swap ended I still have not received my items. I was told another package would be sent, but not yet :-(. Will rerate if I ever receive the cards.

Comment: After you said you had sent out two packages, wich I never received. I told you to not bother and send yet another replacement swap. You said you would. Call it miss-communication. I rated you a 1 back in januari, which wasn't convenient for you since you were in an airport. So I pulled the 1 rating. But now I see a pattern of a lot of none send items. So I am rating this swap to let other people know this is happening more often. If you still decide to resend something I will adjust the rating. add 5 march: since the send date of this swap was 5th of november I don't see why the holidays were a problem for a resend. And yes you were right the other low ratings in the pattern started later. I am sorry for your personal issues and I hope you will feel better soon. 5/4: Thank you very much for the resent 5 months past the due date. None of the items were on my wishlist but I'm not going to be picky. It speaks for you that you are trying to make up. I hope your health improves soon. Take care

Comment: I received a message 2/7/13 that my card would be going in the mail the next day, with an apology for it being late. I haven't received it as of 2/26/13, so am rating for now and will re-rate if/when I receive it. Update: I received it 3/14/13, so am re-rating this to a 3.

Comment: You've been deleting my profile comments about whether or not you've received the letter that I sent to you, and you haven't read my PM either... so maybe this 1 rating will get your attention? I'm sorry that you're going through some tough times, but you need to contact your partners now that you're back. Let me know if you decide to resend. Update: This swap arrived about a month and a half after the send-by date. Thank you for sending.

Comment: Will re-rate if I receive anything. 3/10 update: received valentine card. Had no contact from sender. Will change from 1 to 3. 3/11 update: in response to your comment - you sent me a PM on 2/7 which I read and replied to, however, you indicated that although it was marked sent on 2/4 you were actually sending out on 2/8. There was no contact to indicate any other delay.

Comment: This is the 2nd of two swaps I haven't received though you've marked it sent 2 Weeks ago. I'll rerate when I receive. (2/23/13) UPDATED 3/4/13: Thank you! Received this swap today! I really appreciate it! :) UPDATED 3/5/13: #1 - I don't appreciate your PM which had a tone of trying to guilt me into giving you better than 3 rating when you ended your PM telling me you were "very disappointed" and that "I definitely thought you would be a kinder person." I AM a kind person. Giving you a fair rating according to SB rules does not make me unkind. Even you say in your Profile "I give 3 only if something is late ..." I received your swaps over 3 weeks late, one over 4 weeks late. #2 - You said "As know you noticed, it clearly states on my profile to email me if you have any issues. I never saw your side bar note til today so I had no idea you left one, because again, it clearly says to email/message me." Don't assume you KNOW anything. Nowhere did I read on your Profile to PM or email you. Your profile states to "let you know" if we haven't received something from you. I chose to leave a Comment. Interestingly, you have since yesterday deleted that Feb 16th Comment along with others' Comments indicating swaps not received. #3 - You didn't "spring for expedited shipping" on my package like you said in your PM. It cost you $2.75 to send 2 swaps in one package. So yes, I am a kind person. I'm kind enough to not misrepresent you to other swappers and hosts by giving you a 5 when you marked Sent over a month ago, didn't communicate with me even after I left 1 ratings on 2/20 and 2/23, and you just now mailed these swaps on 3/2/13, telling me you sent them with "expedited shipping" when in fact it was simply 1st Class shipping. UPDATE #2 3/5/13: Don't misrepresent the situation and say I did not contact you before rating. I left a Comment on your Profile on 2/16. You did not respond. (And you deleted this Comment on 3/4/13.) I left appropriate ratings on 2/20 and 2/23. You didn't respond. I upgraded your ratings on 3/4 and thanked you for your swaps I received. THEN you sent me a PM expressing your disappointment and accused me of being unkind. What else could you have been disappointed in and considered unkind but those 3s? Because I have been nothing but kind to you in my original Comment on 2/16 and even in my two 1 ratings to you. The only time you can even suggest I was "unkind" was when I responded firmly to your inappropriate PM. And even then I have been kind. You did not say you didn't deserve those 3s but you didn't say you did deserve them either. You did say I was unkind. And you did say you were disappointed. The entire purpose of your rude PM was to guilt me into changing your 3's to 5's. I rarely leave 3s and when I do, I'm tired of receiving inappropriate PMs implying I should change my rating. So if it's unkind to say so, then I'm unkind for saying so. But other than that, I've been nothing but kind to you trying to let you know at 2 weeks that I had not received your swap, and at 4 weeks, leaving 1 ratings promising to change it when I received the swaps, which I did immediately when I received them yesterday.UPDATE #3 3/5/13: You can call me "unbalanced" but I assure you I am not. What I am is tired of swappers who try to guilt other swappers in giving them 5s and then when that doesn't work, they accuse the rater of being unbalanced or any other means to discredit the rater. This is why swappers are afraid of giving appropriate 3's or even 1's because of swappers who send them PMs and call them names and try to deflect other swappers from the main issue. But I will stand firm and not be bullied down by name calling. You should have just accepted your 3's and not sent me that PM. Please reconsider a similar PM to your other 1 raters if they upgrade only to a 3 when they receive. UPDATED 3/6/13: I will continue to defend myself against your accusations if you want to keep making them. This is ridiculous that this is all stemming from my 3 ratings to you! You accuse me of having altered my original response, and that is not true. Show me what you are talking about. I have kept a copy of your rating screen each time it has been updated, as I've had to defend myself against your accusations where you call me unbalanced, incoherent, immature. I also take issue with you implying that I have been contacting you and that you had to block me. I have not "contacted" you in any way except HERE in this rating to defend myself against your accusations and my "3" ratings. And I do that because you continue to make personal attacks against me in your rating comments. The issue was and still is that I upgraded my 1's to 3's, not 5's, and you were "disappointed" and thought I would be kinder. And from there you have done nothing but call me names and imply I've done things I have not. Please stop and go on. You're getting some lovely ratings on other late swaps, so let this one go. You can delete it at the end of the year in Rachel's charity drive.

Comment: Putting this 1 as a holder. I realize profile indicates some medical issues. However, this is 1 of 2 swaps that I haven't received though they've both been marked "Sent". This swap was marked Sent 2/4/13, and the other swap was marked sent 2/9/13. It is 2/20/13 and we both live in the States. Of course I am happy to change the rating as soon as the swap is received. (2/20/13) UPDATED 3/4/13: Thank you! I received this today! Very pretty notecards!