Hello again Supportive Sourdough Superstars,

A couple updates as Breadwinners start finding their way across the country...

We are thrilled to report that we have successfully dispatched Breadwinners to over hundreds of our US-based backers! Once our shipping provider begins dropping them in the mail, you should receive a shipping notification from Shopify with a tracking number. Hopefully your Breadwinner won't take more than a couple of days to reach you from our warehouse in southern California.

If you're not based in the US, don't fret – early next week I'll send the signal to get your Breadwinners on their way. We'll be using Passport, which is a company specially designed to ensure international shipments get to their destination, and importantly, through customs without fuss. One tradeoff with using Passport, however, has been that we haven't been able to incorporate customs fees into your overall shipping cost. This means that you'll likely have to pay a small fee on delivery in order to get your Breadwinner home. I wish this weren't the way of the world, but alas, international shipping is always a difficult rite of passage for any crowdfunding project. 

So many of you ordered Breadberry! I tried to convey to my little jar of yeast that it's now famous, but didn't get much reaction. Turns out yeast has kind of a one track mind.

Anyway, I'm in the process batch growing Breadberry and dehydrating it down into little pieces so it can be sent to you through the mail. I think I have a pretty good system, but will be ramping it up more over this weekend. My hope is to have most of this done in the next week or two. I'll keep you posted!

Since Breadwinner is more-or-less a community-first project, I wanted to make sure you knew you were invited to our Discord server. It's basically a chat hangout where we talk all things Breadwinner. I am envisioning this to be a really good place for people to find help as they unbox their Breadwinners. And while we have been rigorously testing and building the system for years, there are going to be inevitable glitches along the way. Hopefully none of them will be show stoppers! Either way, we'll be in it together. To get on our Discord, just check out this link here:

https://discord.gg/XsN3WE7K3G

That's it for now.

Cheers,

Fred