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Secret Santa gift-giving overseas

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daisychain01 · 02/12/2015 14:26

Just wondering ...

during the 'matching process' between a Secret Santa and a gift recipient - is there any attempt to match people who are situated in the same country, to help minimise shipping costs (which can be more than the gift itself!).

Also if we are purchasing a gift voucher, presumably the person who lives overseas would have to use it online, but then they would have the shipping cost burden which may be a lot for people on limited incomes.

Just thought I'd mention ...

DawnMumsnet · 02/12/2015 19:48

Hi daisychain,

We'll flag this thread to SandyMumsnet, who's in charge of the whole Secret Santa operation. She'll be back with an answer soon. Xmas Smile

SandyMumsnet · 03/12/2015 10:13

Hiya daisychain Thanks for flagging some great thoughts on this. We completely get where you're coming from.

Due to our increased security, we are not aware of the Mumsnetter's addresses when we go through the matching process (only that they live abroad) so we're unable to marry up folk in the same country.

We've never wanted to exclude Mumsnetters who live abroad from participating in the Secret Santa and try to match vouchers to anyone not in this country, however a flaw in this thinking has been highlighted to us this year and so we will be taking a good look at this for next year. [santa] [santa] [santa]

SandyMumsnet · 06/12/2015 12:06

Hi everyone, thanks for all your thoughts and suggestions on this. Your ideas are really useful and very much welcome, please keep them coming!

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