Stiff Whiskers Press
CREATOR
5 months ago
Project Update: Pledge manager lock down, card charges, and POD codes
Just a reminder that Pledge Manger closes on October 21st. After that date, you will not be able to make changes or add to your orders. Credit cards will be charged on November the 1st for any items you've picked up in Pledge Manager. POD codes for at-cost physical copies will start going out on Monday, October the 20th for those that pledged for POD goods during the campaign. If you've added POD goods in Pledge Manager, those codes will go out after credit cards are charged on the 1st of November. The dice and patches are on the way to us, and the shipping boxes have been ordered. Remember, shipping charges for dice and patches, t-shirts, and art are flat charges to the US depending on the size of box needed to ship. As we understand it, the shipping charges will be individual charges to you with the fine folks at Backerkit working with us to get this managed. For the US, dice & patch will be $7 (for single or multiple orders the cost is the same). A t-shirt box with any other items that will fit (dice & patch and artwork for instance) will be $9.
This is how we arrived at those prices:
This is how we arrived at those prices:
- There will be two sizes of boxes. One will fit multiple sets of patch and dice. One will fit a t-shirt, art, and patch and dice. We’ve figured that, given the limit we put on each of these items, we can charge one price per box in the U.S if you’ve got just a single item or if you have multiples. The weight rate doesn’t change significantly with what is possible to have in a box.
- We did check the possibility of shipping in padded envelopes for the dice, which would have been the cheapest possible way to ship those, but it is no longer possible to send that type of package at First Class rate through the USPS. Their new rules state that anything in an envelope (padded or otherwise) can not be more than a 1/2” in thickness and the thickness must be uniform across the package. If it is not, you must send it as a package, and First Class rates do not apply.
- So, we’ve come up with this: The dice and patch (for a single set or more) will ship for $7 to anywhere in the U.S. in a void-filled box of 6x4x2. For a t-shirt box, it will be $9 to anywhere in the US. This box can also hold dice and patch and art for that same price. This ships in a 12x9x2 box. Both of these boxes will ship USPS Ground Advantage and will be trackable.
- For international backers, we will contact you directly to do individual shipping.
- The prices were arrived at by figuring the most expensive package to the opposite coast and to a package mailed to the same zip code. The weight brackets were then checked to see what the difference in multiple items in a box would do (multiple items did not change the ship rate). The price charged is in the middle, with only a slight difference being noted on either end. We are using a discount shipper to get that price (Pirate Ship).
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