Invoices printed: 2245
Invoices pending, waiting on info from backers: 331
Coins to be ordered: approx 26,000
estimated cost of those coins: $80,000
Glue dots needed to fix coins to packing boards: approx 20,000
packing boards needed:5000
padded envelopes to order: 1500
priority mail boxes to order: 950
space in my house that will be taken up by boxes of coins: approx 52 cubic feet
space in my house needed for boxes of padded envelopes: 36 cubic feet
space in my house needed for packing boards: 5.5 cubic feet
space in my house needed for priority mail boxes: 19 cubic feet
hours spent this morning printing and counting: 6 (across two people)
toner replacement cartridges needed: 1 (so far)
Shipping is expected to begin the first weeks of May
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If you and Howard keep coming up with cool things like this to offer, you may want to do a kickstarter to get more cubic feet of house.
Sandra neglects to mention that a new printer is on order because this one has started smelling like burnt toner and sounding like a team of tortured rodents.
That’s your shipping and handling charges hard at work, folks: packing materials, postage, and a replacement for the printer this project killed.
It’s good to hear how the ‘overhead’ $$ is used, it puts a tangible face onto this whole amazing project.
I agree, it’s always great to hear how overhead dollars are spent. A printer that sounds like tortured rodents is usually close to letting the worker rodents free anyway, and replacement rodents are never as efficient as the original crew.
I for one am grateful to Ms. T that she’s willing to spend her valuable time so the rest of us can continue to be total fanboys and fangirls. Thank you.
(P.S. I worked for a printer manufacturer at one time. Squirrels tend to hold up better than smaller rodents. That’s why we used them in our postal printer line.)