Am I screwed?
I am supposed to have portfolio presentation so I made order on my portfolio book yesterday (May 5), thought the process has started. I used UPS Second Day Air, assumed it might ship by next Monday (May 12).
Today, I checked my order, to my disappointment, it said “estimated ship date 2008-05-13”. That means it might arrive at the end of next Thursday (same day as my portfolio presentation). I am kinda screwed since I can’t change the shipping method nor cancel the order.
I don’t know whether it’s worth my money or not. I guess, I’d have to go print my own portfolio. Is there a way to solve the problem?
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I mean, I am supposed to have portfolio presentation on next Thursday (May 15).
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Hi Pengguu As orders take 5-6 business days to produce, which does not include shipping time, you’re definitely cutting it a bit close. There’s no way to rush book production nor change shipping methods after the fact, but I have seen books ship out earlier than estimated. I can’t promise that will happen but it’s certainly possible!
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I agree with Mike’s observation about time frame between order date of your book and expected book delivery.
For your future book project, I suggest that you do a project at least a couple of months before something special event for that matter. Sometimes the outcome of printed book didn’t work out nicely as we would like to see. For that reason, as professional photographer, I always do a proof book first BEFORE finalize the book project. Once I get the proof book, and if I like what I saw in the “draft, test” book, then I’ll make some necessary adjustment, and add more pages/images onto BookSmart and finalize the final book order.
Relating to test book, you might wonder why, and what is it all about. Well, I don’t want to go into that complicated stuff. For me, and for many creative professionals do series of things to make sure the images look right, having right & correct color profile set up, and softproof. It is a long process and lot of work involved. That is what creative professionals do.
I hope your book turned out nicely and meet your expectation. Good luck with your portfolio project.
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