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Best Tips For Online Returns

3/31/2019

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A recent survey of Sip and Ship customers revealed that quite a few of you are concerned with how to best deal with online returns. FedEx, UPS, DHL, and USPS - we take them all and can help make sure they all go smoothly.

1. We encourage you to use prepaid return labels that are provided to you.
These prepaid labels often cost less than what you would pay anywhere else.

Bonus Tip: if you don’t have a printer, you can email them to us and our team can print them off and get them on your packages. Email ahead to the store you plan to visit at ballard@sipandship.com and/or greenwood@sipandship.com and we’ll take it from there.

2. Whenever possible, it’s best to reuse/recycle boxes and mailers.
This is a great way to save money and help protect our environment.

Bonus Tip: You never have to worry about buying a roll of tape to seal up your packages. Our team is happy to tape up your packages for FREE.
3. What to do when your online return does not come with a pre-paid return shipping label, ship with Sip and Ship.

Bonus Tip: The beauty of Sip and Ship is that we can provide you an array of shipping options with your end goal in mind. Often that is providing you with the most effective way with tracking through our postal services. Further, in the rare case that your return requires insurance, we recommend UPS or FedEx ground service(s) which provide real-time tracking and come with $100 insurance.

We hope this information has been helpful and we look forward to transforming your online return errand into something you actually look forward to doing at Sip and Ship.

Bonus Tip: while you're here, enjoy a delicious cup of coffee, get a document notarized, and find the perfect card and party gift!

​Happy Spring!
Diana and Your Sip and Ship Team
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#onlinereturns #onestopshop #coffee #mail #cards #gifts #errandsdone
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If You’re Going To Mail It, Certify It

3/24/2019

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Mailing in your taxes can be stressful. Take a deep breath, and make sure to visit Sip and Ship for that final step to filing your return.  Sip and Ship recommends mailing them certified-with-return-receipt. Which means you have a tracking number and then a postcard back confirming the IRS has received them.  Sip and Ship can email these tracking details directly to you and our shipping system files this information under your name so that it can be recalled, referenced and/or used again in the future. Pretty slick right?

Where else can you meet the deadline of April 15th, enjoy a cup of Joe and pick up a birthday card? This place!

We look forward to seeing you soon!
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Diana and Your Sip and Ship Team
#taxseason #april15 #certified #certifiedreturnreceipt #trackabletaxreturn #service #speed #efficiency #care #coffeeshop #mailshop #giftshop #sipshipshop #onestopshop #ballard #greenwood
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Make Way For Spring

3/18/2019

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Every year in the spring (we think it has been 7 years now), Sip and Ship has some very special visitors who come to seek familiarity and safe haven to return to and grow their families The Sip and Ship team has named these web-footed urban dwellers, Axel and Astrid, and they are part of our extended family. Rumor has it that Axel enjoys long flights, occasional water skiing and cornmeal (wet, not dry). Conversely, Astrid likes her alone time, long waddles in the park and loves talking about her 79 children (don’t ask her about them, it’ll take for-ever).
Two years ago, after the chicks were born, these seasoned parents knew it was time to head towards the water. Being the risk taker that he is, Axel was ready to lead them across Market street and Sip and Ship was at the ready to form a human chain and guided the family of ducklings to water near the boat canal.
This year, whether Axel and Astrid choose Sip and Ship or another Ballard location as their nest home, we’ll be looking out for our fine feathered friends - just like we look out for you!
See you soon,
Diana and Your Sip and Ship Team

#finefriends #urbandwellers #cityducks #makewayforducklings #spring #nesthome #sipshipshop #onestopshop #speed #efficiency #care #ballard #greenwood
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

3/11/2019

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Honoring women in history brings so many faces and moments in time to mind that have marked history forever: Harriet Tubman, Agatha Christie, Audrey Hepburn, Rosa Parks,Amelia Earhart, Ella Fitzgerald, and Anne Frank just to name a few. All of these women demonstrated great courage and gave a brave fight for what was right as pioneers for justice and equality.

These women were little girls once and they turned their dreams into realities. Sip and Ship is proud to carry these books by creator Isabel Sanchez Vergara. Boldly told and illustrated stories, the books capture views into these women’s lives, their struggles and highlight their legacy for young people to learn about and celebrate. We hope these stories will spark conversation, provide a greater sense of confidence and give a glimmer of hope to you and your little people.

As always, we love seeing you and look forward to sharing stories about Women In History that have impacted you and what you’d like YOUR STORY to be.
Fondly yours,

Diana and Your Sip and Ship Team
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Everything She Touches Changes

3/8/2019

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As a little girl, I grew up with a mom who frequently traveled to faraway places. She was often gone for weeks and months at a time, to remote third world villages in India, Africa, Central and South America. At the time, I really didn’t know what she did but knew it was important. She would return from her trips exhausted but excited to share her stories. 
One time, she came home and gave me a smaller version of this image that I soon prized and examined it closely from my kid bunkbed. For what seemed like hours, I made up stories about each face: Who was she? What must she be thinking? Where was she going? This beautiful cornucopia of faces represented women of every color, size and age imaginable from all parts of the globe. I later discovered that Mom’s working colleague LaVern Phillips created the montage in 1971 and it served as a program cover for Global Women’s Forum events, held mostly during the United Nations’ Decade of Women. The montage kept me intrigued and centered. And, it set me to wondering, too. How
will I and other women in our time link up and make a difference
in the world?

Mother returned from trips for what seemed like just enough time to do laundry, grab a meal and then go back out into the world. However, she was careful to share stories about her travels with her three daughters during Monday night family gatherings--
meeting women like these faces in the art form, experiencing their cultures, seeing their limited resources and learning how they got to the heart of issues facing their families and
communities.

For example in El Bayed, Egypt, it was the village’s women who persisted and demanded clean water. A parasitic liver fluke in the Nile River ravaged the villagers’ health, resulting in highmortality from Bilharzia/ Schistosomiases. Three things had to be dealt with (1) installing Villages latrines, (2) picking up the host snails of the flukes and burning them weekly and (3) digging for clean water wells, since water from the Nile River was polluted. It
was women who organized and encouraged everyone to tackle these not-so-easy solutions.

A few miles north of the equator in the Pacific on a small atoll called Majuro, Mom witnessed women create a preschool for their children and for their future nation’s self-reliance. They understood that exporting more smoked coconut (copra, their only export) would never be enough to launch a new nation. These women worked together to create a preschool for their children. News of the preschool in a corner of copra warehouse on
Majuro quickly spread to outlying atolls and islands. Villagers came and watched. The preschool was duplicated miles away in half a dozen locations. Creativity ignited. More options for training future leaders began. Today, preschools are more common throughout the nation called The Republic of the Marshall Islands (as of 1994) and a community college is located on the Laura islet of the Majuro Atoll. As ocean waters rise, the Marshallese call upon their creativity for survival again.

In our own country, I take pride and am grateful that an additional 100 plus women serve today in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States. Having more
women participating and leading in government and in all sectors of business and community continues changing our world into a more respectful, productive, innovative and inclusive space in the universe. I’m reminded of the words from a song: “She changes
things she touches and everything she touches changes . . . “

On this International Women’s Day, I pause in celebration of all of the women who came before us, live among us and continue to shape who we are and who we want to become. While I am not entirely sure what compelled my mom to be of service in her way,
I am so very proud to have witnessed her compassion and drive to support other women making positive and meaningful differences in their lives, so they in turn can do so for others--a legacy that I hope to continue during my lifetime.

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Women In Wine

3/3/2019

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How ironic is it that March is Women’s History Month AND Washington Wine Month!? They are both topics we love!  Sip and Ship supports and brings these endeavors together by highlighting two of our favorite local winemakers who also happen to be badass women and entrepreneurs.

Fifth generation Walla Walla winemaker  Anna Schaefer  influences every aspect of the wine making process of AMaurice Cellars. From her 20 something beginnings, Anna’s first vintage was featured on the 2006 French Laundry Wine List and today her artwork can be seen on two of our favorite estate varietals; Syrah, “Fred,” and  Malbec, “Amparo.” Sip and Ship is proud to feature Anna and AMaurice Cellars - her values of curiosity, quality and creativity not only make amazing wine but solid business sense.

Mother of two and Seattle SoDo's only female winemaker Jody Elsom of Elsom Cellars. Jody focuses on partnering with local farmers throughout Washington to help them supplement and sustain their family farms,  where she harvests a variety of small batch grape vineyards to create her unique wine flavor profiles. Elsom Cellars recent new releases Mourvedre and Grenache are Sip and Ship top crew picks!

We invite you to learn more about these amazing women and enjoy their spectacular Washington wines!  The idea of sharing a story about a woman in history who has influenced your life (with or without a glass of wine) is a great conversation starter at any dinner table or water cooler.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Diana and Your Sip and Ship Team
#womeninwine #womenentrepreneurs #womeninhistorymonth #washingtonwinemonth #conversationstarters #onestopshop #sipshipshop #sipwine #sharewine #shipwine
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