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Customer service lessons from Kevin Smith vs. Southwest Airlines

Wow, between waking up this morning to a dozens of great comments on the blog for packaging suggestions and also to the whole Kevin Smith vs. Southwest Airlines affair, it has been a pretty eventful morning!
My brothers and I are big fans of the SModcast and were thoroughly entertained by how the tabloids and blogo-sphere [...]

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More historical wallet research

As I may have indicated before, there has never been an entry for “Wallet” in printed encyclopedias.  I’ve looked in ALL sorts of encyclopedias from all sorts of dates (as far back as 1911).  It seems that the wallet has always just been in people’s conciousness and we’ve never thought to really look at it [...]

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Beginning the the process for new wallet designs…

I know everyone has been a little anxious to know how the process is going for the new line so I thought I would keep everyone updated on the process.  We are about to begin the prototyping process for our new men’s wallets line and are just in the process of solidifying which designers are [...]

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Gear Patrol - Reviews!

We just got an email from Mr. Jon Gaffney at GearPatrol.com that he and co-author, Dusty Overby, have just posted a review of The Vagabond and Cypress wallets on Friday.  The cool thing about reviews at Gear Patrol is that they actively use and test their products before writing the review so the information you [...]

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Video series now online; Cypress leather care

We’ve uploaded our video series now and they are accessible by signing up at the bottom of each wallet page.  Currently, there are only two videos in the series and we’ll be adding more over time as we get the time and allocate the resources (videos take way more time to produce than we thought!)
There [...]

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Getting to know your wallet videos - Your help requested!

Hey all!
Firstly, a BIG thank you to everyone who has sent us email letting us know how much they love their new wallet!  Very much appreciated!  Especially all of the great photos! We’ll be doing a website update soon and will be posting as many of your emails (as testimonials) as we can.  We’ll get [...]

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LAST Shipping Update!

Alright, if my calculations are correct, EVERY pre-order has now been shipped out!  Orpheus came in at 11:00am and I’ve been packing orders up until 4:30 this afternoon.  That should now be all orders to everybody.  Furthermore, they’ve all been shipped out to the correct addresses! (So sorry about that, Phil.  I still feel bad!) [...]

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Orpheus Update 14-05-2009

Alright!!!! We just got word that the Orpheus shipment is just cleared customs and will be here tomorrow morning!!!  So, all of our Orpheus orders are sitting here waiting to be ’stuffed and shipped’ once they are received tomorrow.

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About USPS tracking

Hi all!
I’ve been getting a couple of concerned emails from clients regarding the state of their package when they try to track it on USPS.com.  There seems to be a perpetual message of showing up like the one below.  For some reason, the amount of tracking information offered by Canada Post/USPS seems to be rather [...]

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Orpheus Update 11-05-2009

Alright!  All pre-orders for Cypress, Raptured, Vagabond, The Sunrise have been shipped out.  All remaining Cypress orders were shipped out yesterday.  So, for clients who have ordered with Standard shipping (in Canada) and Small Packet Air (in U.S.), you will likely be receiving them sometime next week (judging on the progress of Expedited orders through [...]

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  • About Us

    Braithwaite Wallets, Inc.; is a men's wallet company that is owned and operated out of Calgary, Alberta in Canada. The company has existed since 2006 and we began selling wallets in March, 2008.

    This blog has been created to keep our current and prospective clients up-to-date on the latest news in wallet design and development as well as just to post bits and pieces (articles, music, etc.) that we find appealing and we wish to share with our clients.

    Braithwaite Wallets, Inc.