Last Sunday, I created a few Winter Solstice presents on Cafe Press. This is a web site that lets you design all sorts of shirts, mugs, magnets, calendars, etc. You can then sell them or use them yourself for a reasonable fee. I chose the rush delivery, hoping the gifts would arrive by Christmas. That would have been 7 days start to finish.
I got a call from one of the recipients. They received their gift on Tuesday. Cafe Press was able to produce two items, package, ship and have them arrive in 2 days! That’s pretty darn amazing.
Their site has been down for the past 24 hours, perhaps they are just exhausted. Good job cafepress, you are the bomb!
I agree: Cafe Press is amazing. I have a shop — http://www.bobmccarty.com — which I run as a full-time business.
On the subject of the temporary shutdown, here’s the scoop: Cafe Press experienced a “denial of service” attack of some kind, according to the site which I was able to access for only a few minutes about 30 minutes ago.
Best regards!