We have been literally snowed under here this week. It started early Wednesday morning and the flakes didn't let up until Thursday afternoon. We closed Lightning Labels down at 2pm on Wednesday - we probably should have closed sooner because several employees had horror drives home. One of our press operators took 5 hours to get home on what was normally a 45 minute drive.
We didn't even attempt to open on Thursday, no one would have been able to get to work anyway. Even today several employees couldn't get out of their driveways. UPS and FedEx have been suffering as well. There was no pickup or delivery from any of the freight companies on Wednesday or Thursday, so everyone trying to get packages out of Denver just had to wait. We did the best we could, I drove our Wednesday shipment to the local UPS store in the hope that maybe they would have a pickup on Thursday.
Now, we are just doing our best to get caught up with our backlog. I ask everyone to be patient, we are going to be working hard to get your custom label orders out as soon as we can. We have a dedicated staff who will be putting in extra effort over the coming days.
There was one benefit from all this - everyone in the Denver area is going to enjoy a white Christmas. To all Lightning Labels customers and readers of this blog I would like to wish you a safe and happy Holiday Season.
