Today Janci and I spent four hours organizing the work spaces, sorting invoices, and generally cleaning up so that coin shipping could proceed. This flurry of activity was triggered by the UPS packing tracking stating that the coins were out for delivery. And they were. My garage is full of coins. I spent an hour sorting to pull out samples of all the types of coins. They had to be inspected. Later this evening I spent another 90 minutes making sure all the addresses were in order and everything is cleared for test shipping tomorrow. That will be the day when Janci and I start putting packages together and trying to figure out how everything works.
Total coin shipping work hours today: 10.5
The coins are gorgeous. Holding them makes me very happy. I would be more eloquent about that if I were not so very tired.
Understood. You’ve got a lot ahead of you, leading to a VERY large lot of VERY happy people in the Schlock community, like me. Hearty thanks to you for all this!!
They look amazing, I might have to buy more on top of the ones I have already purchased. Amazing work done all around!
What I have wondered since I heard of the shipment was, how are they shipped to you. Were they all in separate boxes or were they in a big container where you could sit in them like Scrooge McDuck in a bathtub of coins.
I posted a picture of the shipment in today’s blog. http://onecobble.plus14.com/2013/05/22/testing-coin-shipping-processes/ there were 64 boxes. Each box held a single type of coin and there were multiple boxes of each type.
I’m going to be at Phoenix Comicon this weekend. Can I pick up my coins there?
Unfortunately we’re not able to accommodate this. There is too much chance that the order would get lost in transit because Howard is brain fried, I am brain fried, and the best chance your order has to be exactly right and delivered safely is for it to stay inside the complex system we’ve constructed to make sure that no orders are lost. Sorry.
What was the total weight of the shipment?
I haven’t seen an invoice with the actual number, but each coin is an ounce. The 7/23 tools are 3 ounces, so roughly one ton.