Create Unique Valentines When You Personalize Candy Bars

Looking for a unique Valentine? The best Valentines combine Hershey's chocolate, a custom candy wrapper and your personal message. At wrappedhersheys.com we have fill-in-the-blank Valentine variety packs available in different styles and colors for people of any age. Love animals? Check out our dinosaur, owl or zoo animal variety packs. Our how-to video below will show you how to create unique valentines by personalizing them with colorful sharpies and other embellishments, like stickers or glitter.

 

Verify Twice, Ship Once

With our commitment to our customers, it is very important that our product arrives on time and we work hard to ship orders according to our customer's preferences. We ship personalized chocolate favors and gifts all over the country and every state has one thing in common, addresses can be tricky.

One factor that will cause a shipping delay is an incorrect address so verification is a big part of the shipping process. UPS requires addresses to be formatted a certain way and include proper spacing and suffixes such as St. or Ave. The parts of the address must also appear in a certain order on the label; apartment, suite and floor numbers are essential. Our shipping software alerts us with a suggestion to correct potential issues and then we investigate.

After shipping thousands of packages I've learned how UPS likes an address to look. I've also learned that different areas of the country have different ways of writing their own addresses. For instance, in the New York City area the street number will have a hyphen in the middle such as 42-34 Elm St. UPS does not like punctuation in the address fields so I know to take this out. In the Chicago area they write the street name without the suffix like 4234 Elm and leave off the St. In parts of Wisconsin the address is based on direction from a point. For example, N2300W3345 may be someone's street number. Instances like these are easy to format.

It is not as easy to fix an address with an incorrect zip code, city name or state. When this happens the address is usually verified with our shipping software, the USPS database and an internet search. If we are not confident that we've found a match, we call the customer to be certain.

We go through great measures to verify the addresses of every order that comes through our building. This is a major part of the shipping process and is necessary to ensure the safe and timely delivery of your products.

Helping You Wrap Your Bars Better

Are you someone who grasps information better from watching someone else or listening, or are you a self taught person? Whichever type of learner you are, at CARSON wrappedhersheys.com we like to offer our customers plenty of options.

When a customer receives their wrappers only order they also receive instructions for how to wrap their bars. This is a step by step list of directions our customers can read and follow. We realized everyone has a different way of comprehending, which is why we decided to offer our customers more than one way to figure out how to wrap their candy bars. Now the customer can not only follow the  instructions we send, but they can also watch one of our employees show them how to wrap the Hershey's bars in a short video.

Feeling confident and proud is something we want all of our customers to experience when they hand out their self-wrapped, personalized bars to family and friends. So the next time you are stuck when wrapping your bars - don’t panic and just check out our how to videos to see the correct way. Below you will find the Standard Wrapper Instructions video, but if you are wrapping Miniature or Large bars just click on the links and it will take you to our videos on Youtube.  

Trendy New Designs

Trends are constantly changing – one minute it’s stripes, Facebook, Jersey Shore and Silly Bandz the next it’s neon, polka dots, Justin Bieber and Angry Birds. It’s hard to stay constantly in the know about what’s in and what’s not.

At CARSON wrappedhersheys.com our Product Development team is constantly researching the latest trends and ideas, and using research from customer feedback, previous sales information and Customer Service to establish new ideas for wrappers and gifts. We understand everything is constantly changing, whether it’s a trend or your 16 year old daughter’s mind, so we strive to stay up-to-date so that we can offer our customers a wide array of wrappers to choose from for their special events.

We’ve recently added several new wrappers in many of our different categories to fit with the latest trends. You'll find new wrappers in the wedding, birthday, business and special occasions categories, just to name a few.  After hearing some of the great feedback we received from customers we also created some new categories. The Awareness category is one to definitely check out and currently we are featuring Breast Cancer Awareness wrappers.

Trends are a constant in our ever changing world. The next time your 5 year old changes his mind from liking dinosaurs to cars – don’t stress! We have you covered with the perfect wrapper. 

 “Change in all things is sweet.” – Aristotle

Holiday Greetings in the Mail

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From Thanksgiving until the week after Christmas, I love getting the mail from our mailbox. If I'm the first one to lay my hands on the stack of catalogs, bills and direct mail pieces, during this small window of time, I might be lucky enough to discover a holiday card or two or three.

The photo greeting cards are always fun. I have many friends that live too far away to visit but year to year, I get to see how their children have grown up. One friend, a graphic designer, must spend the entire year trying to come up with a clever concept for her family card because it's always unique. I can't wait to read the newsletters enclosed in some cards.

Do you ever wonder why we only mail each other like this once a year? It's a lot of work! Finding the right card for everyone on your list, maybe if you're really ambitious, handwriting a small note, signing your name, addressing each envelope, licking the envelope and finally placing a stamp on every one. It's easy though if you order personalized candybar greetings and use the mailing service at CARSON wrappedhersheys.com. We do all the work for you.

Holiday Gift Giving Made Easy

Starting in October we feel the rush of the holidays coming. Last year after the calm settled back in around mid January, we asked our corporate customers how their holiday shopping experience was with us and what suggestions could they offer for making it better. To shape our 2010 plan we relied heavily on our customers' feedback.

New categories were added to our website wrappedhersheys.com to make it easier to shop based upon Price or Chocolate Net Weight. We began a Holiday Gift Volume Discount program. If ordering early, between September 1 and November 15, customers could enjoy up to 15% off. Many customers who previously used our List Management Service expressed the need for a note attached to the outside of the package. The note we created explains to the recipient that this is a gift and who the sender is without having to open the box.

Your holiday gift giving doesn't have to be stressful. Not only will we drop ship to all your locations, we will track your packages and ensure delivery. We'll worry about the details for you so you can enjoy the Season of Giving.

A Sweet Deal On Shipping

We’re now offering a lower shipping rate for orders under $50 – a perfect fit for our new gift items. 

Saturday, October 16 is Sweetest Day and we have a great collection of gifts that you can now ship for less.  I realize some of you might dismiss this as a made up holiday, but did you know Sweetest Day was founded by a Cleveland, Ohio man as a way to bring happiness to those who were often forgotten?  In 1922 Herbert Birch Kingston and his friends delivered candy and small gifts to children in orphanages and those who were ill, disabled or otherwise forgotten. That seems reasonable, doesn’t it? 

Whether it’s Sweetest Day, Halloween, Christmas, Hanukkah, or Valentine’s Day, sending a gift to someone you care about just got a little sweeter with CARSON wrappedhersheys.com’s new lower shipping!

Online Preview Technology

Over the last few years I've noticed more and more websites offering an online proof. If you've ordered other personalized products, perhaps you too have come across this awesome technology. I recently ordered memo pads for CARSON wrappedhersheys.com and while I was able to preview the exact image online I was only reassured with the result because the artwork was created by the in-house graphic design staff.

Now you might ask why having a graphic designer set-up your artwork is better...well here is how I see it...each order we produce is carefully created by a staff of people that care what your order will look like. A graphic designer type sets each personalized field. We take into consideration the size of the font, its relationship to other fonts regarding scale and occasionally, we will discover a single letter in a font family that doesn't actually look like the letter it's supposed to represent.

Additionally, our graphic designers are free to explore many font styles while creating designs. For example on the Love You Sand (Item# WH09) we wanted the font to look like letters in the sand. With Formal Birthday (Item# SB192) we were going for an elegant formal look. What do you need on a chalkboard? Name on a Board (Item# CTA01) emulates handwriting. In the design process we evaluate the fonts carefully to make sure it coordinates with the overall feel we want for the item.

And what about pictures? Well, our graphic designers not only place the image in the file, but spend time on color correction, retouching, resizing and maybe creating a chin or shoulder if we think the photo needs a little extra effort. Of course we don't want to change the integrity of the image, only enhance the best qualities already there. 

Ultimately we are guided by you, our customers. So if you want a different font, color or specify how the picture is cropped we listen. We want you to be happy and think about that with every order that goes through each one of our hands. While we admire the new technology we still think each personalized order needs a personal touch.

Cool Delivery Solutions

One of the most common questions we’re asked this time of year is, “Can you really ship chocolate during the summer heat?  It’s really hot here!”

Yes!  We absolutely ship chocolate during the summer and to warm climates in the United States all year long.

We carefully monitor temperatures where your order is being delivered and select the appropriate packaging, ship date and shipping service to make certain it arrives in quality condition, at no additional charge to you.  Additionally, we ship your chocolate order in an insulated carton with a frozen gel pack and schedule shipment to avoid weekend transit.  Here are some other "cool" tips:

• Please provide a residential or business address where someone will be able to care for your package immediately upon arrival.
• UPS may deliver to a residence between 8am – 8pm. 
• UPS often requires a signature upon delivery.
• When temperatures exceed 72 degrees, consider our wrapper only option for APO, APE or FPO addresses.

A Sweet Treat for Corporate Guests

Personalized wrapped Hershey's bars are perfect for businesses looking for a creative way to promote special events, reward employees and thank customers.  Our Business Logo bars are also great for conferences & meetings.  

Princeton Financial Systems has been a CARSON wrappedhersheys.com customer since 2008 and use the bars as part of their Corporate Concierge Program, implemented about 10 years ago in an effort to treat their clients, prospects, vendors and guests with a "5 star"  level of service during any visit that is made to their offices.   

“Every detail counts when hosting a guest in our facility.  Customized Hershey's Chocolates which display our corporate logo and website are placed in the center of our Executive Board Room Table.  It is our belief that keeping our guests happy with a sweet treat during a meeting while branding our company at the same time is a win, win situation!  Thank you for providing us with a quality product, wonderful service and a quick turn around time."

We'd like to thank Princeton Financial Systems for their loyalty over the years and for using our products to promote their business.