Beautiful and very thoughtful.
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Oh I was supposed to post a pic of the rules I made for myself. I made them in veneer and stuck them right to my laptop!
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These are very nice! I currently don’t know anyone with the post office … but, I’m very fond of using their facility. We never see them as they deliver at the roadside box.
Thank you for sharing your file!
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Wow, i cant wait for my plus to come next week, it seems your design is two sided, how do you cut and print both sides?
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Very kind
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If you’re anything like me, you’re gonna have a failed print from time to time because you forget to turn layers off and on. In this case, that’s exactly what you’ll need to do! I’d say if you haven’t looked into ways to hold your material down while in the machine, now is the time. Between the holdown pins, or magnets, or whatever, it’s up to you what works best. In my image below you’ll see the magnets I used previously, but I use the pins almost every time, as well.
I’ve highlighted some important things you’ll need to know in this picture below:
It’s a fairly symmetrical design, so on the first side, you would turn layers off by clicking the step on the left, the prompt will pop up with options (ignore anything below custom, as those are my personal settings and you won’t have them until you make some of your own): It’s as simple as clicking on the word “Ignore” for it to ignore a panel, and it will let you know it’s ignored by saying “X IGNORE” on that panel, but it won’t move it’s place. I tend to move and group the panels after they’re uploaded by what steps need to happen in what order, and have highlighted the ignored panels with pink. If you become really proficient, people have found which colors correspond to the Glowforge order of operations, so you can set your files up accordingly, but I change colors in my files occasionally, so I don’t worry about it. Stroke lines are, at default, set to cut, so be aware of that when loading a design, in my photo I’ve highlighted the score orange, but again, this started as “
CUT” and I changed it to score manually.
With that said, after finishing the first side, you would ignore the stuff from the first side that has already been done. In this file, that would be whichever image you engraved first, and the cut, as the score can be done on both sides, it’s okay to leave it on. Flip over the piece(s) you cut - this is why it’s a good idea to pin down your material - and turn on whatever panels you want to be done, and print!
I don’t know how much of that made sense for you, but hopefully you get it down pretty quick. I haven’t messed up a print knock on proofgrade, for a while due to forgetting, but it took me at least a year before I was able to say that. Feel free to search the forum for any questions you may have whenever the need arises, and always be comfortable with asking for help. This community is full of great individuals who are willing to walk you through anything they’re able to help with.
Hope this helped!
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Oh perfect! I don’t think my carrier needs another travel mug! 
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I think I’m going to have to make a couple of these for my local post office as well. Did you change the engrave settings? Looks a bit lighter than normal. Not full power?
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It could have just been the lighting, then again, I have had some Walnut that doesn’t engrave the same. I can’t remember, but I definitely didn’t change the settings, I know that much.
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thank you very much for taking the time to reply. another question , i was watching videos on how to use inkscape, and got to document properties, he discussed there are different documents that can be used depending on the project, for web designs he suggested to use pix , what do you use as your base document?
thanks in advance
Thank you for sharing this. I plan on making one for our postal worker and the gal who works at the Post Office (we’re in a small town, so not many USPS employees). Our postal delivery gal has had to put up with a lot from us, so this will be great to just say “thanks, you’re appreciated.” We’ve lived here for almost 6 years, and although we haven’t moved, we did have the County change our address to a different street as it’s where our driveway actually goes. Anyway, all this time we’d been getting past residents’ mail, and every time we’d put it back in the box. Well, when we changed our address, we filled out a “change of address” with the Post Office specifically stating that only mail addressed to the two of us was to be updated to the new address. It didn’t work and they still delivered others’ mail to us. So I taped a note inside the mailbox and wrote a letter to the local Postmaster, letting them know that we had put up with this for over five years and that this was a brand new address and that we were the only ones to ever have it, so would they please stop giving us mail not with our names on it. That seemed to have done the job. Even when we get our email notification about what is in a day’s mail, there may be some addressed to other people, but it never gets put in our box. So it’ll be nice to surprise our mail people with a nice little gift.
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Ya know, I’ve never met anyone that doesn’t think highly of their mail carrier or local Postal people. I’ve also never met anyone that thinks the Postal Network Distribution system is anything but crap and inefficient. Kind of a Catch-22 to those that fondly remember the old Postal Service. But what seems like a move to destroy the remaining good will they closed two of my local Post Offices and the only remaining office within 20 miles is only open 3 hours a day for customer service. The window is open 10am-2pm and closed between 12pm-1pm for lunch. So there is no possible interaction for any employed customer with the local postal employees.
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Meet me.
When I bought this home in 2016, I was selected to be part of the IBM mail quality program. They send frequent test mail pieces, “cunningly” disguised as both domestic and international mail. Code inside to report using an app. The program was shut down so I can talk about it.
In 5 years, I probably received 400 “certified” letters - the ones with the card you have to sign. About a couple per week. Once - literally once - the carrier came to the door to get a signature. Otherwise they just ripped it off and disposed of it. Constant messages from IBM about whether I had the card, mailed it back, etc. Nope! Never saw them. Dozens of mail items were never delivered at all (you get notifications along the lines of “hey, can you confirm you received this?”)
Also packages that didn’t fit were crammed into my mailbox at the street, door left open. Others were literally thrown from the lawn onto the porch, rain or shine (I have cameras.) Several were ruined due to being out in heavy rain. Oh, I have a car port - which is closer than my front porch.
A couple of years back, the carrier had the audacity to leave a note about how they would appreciate a tip over the holidays. On several occasions, I spotted them in the corner of an abandoned lot near the end of my street, taking a nap.
All of this was reported not only to IBM, but to my local postmaster and also the management at the larger sorting station nearby when I’ve needed to go there. Shoulders were shrugged. Nothing changed.
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To be honest, I don’t care for either the carrier or the office. I’ve got a bit too many complaints in for them to like me much either too. But that month of mail they didn’t deliver or lost or forwarded to who knows where had bills in it. And the torn, empty boxes they bring to my neighbor’s house in a ziplock bag that is addressed to me, not cool either. One of the mail carriers was busted for hoarding years of mail at their house. And my carrier is still marking packages as delivered hours before actually delivering them…to my neighbor’s house.
Yeah, I guess I should mention that I have never lived in a town, city or urban area where people are less interactive. Always out in the sticks where folks wave at each other and everyone knows everyone. It’s not uncommon for my delivery people to drive up my 1/2 mile rocky driveway in the snow rather than leave something in the rural mailbox at the bottom of the mountain. The one postal employee at the 120sq ft post office always says hi.
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Me, too!
i’m friendly, wave at my mail carrier and say hi when i see them. but i’ve had either mediocre or poor experiences with mail carriers for the 20 yrs i’ve been here.
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Wow. You guys have some lousy postal people. Ours have always been good, helpful, friendly. It’s UPS (& to some extent FedEx) that frost my stones. All the complaints about the postal folks I’ve got with UPS or FedEx.
The only issue we had with the post office in over 30 years was them refusing to deliver my bee nucs to the house. They made my wife go down to pick them up at the post office. They stuck the two boxes in one of those huge canvas rolling bins, left it way out in the middle of the sorting room and made her go back & get them out while all the postal people watched from the office with the door closed.
You’d think 20,000 bees in boxes made of window screening were a problem or something 
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Filling up my car at a gas station and noticed a couple honey bees flying around me. Looked over at the car next to mine with two teenagers outside it scratching their heads. The whole inside of their car was covered with what looked like thousands of bees. Apparently they were transporting the bees to their uncle’s farm and must have hit the brakes a little too hard. They had no experience with the bees other than doing their uncle a favor. See ya. I have an irrational fear of wasps and hornets, and not that fond of bees.
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I hate wasps and hornets. I know I shouldn’t kill them randomly because they’re good at controlling other pests, but I’ll step on any one I can.
Honey bees are different. They’re generally far more docile although they’ll sting if they feel threatened. I just felt like they were my guys, part of the family even. When I gave up beekeeping I made sure my hives went to a good beekeeper I knew 
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