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Isn't about time for the yearly token design thread?

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Santoro:

Jeez, too many possibilities.. my head hurts.   

I will say I really think BYOAC must be on at least one side.  Maybe the rule is that the front must have a BYOAC reference, and whatever wins for the back wins.

I wouldn't mind hearing other opinons on this.

Santoro:

So a bump with a bit of bad news. 

The Unitied States Postal Service just overhauled all of its services and pricing.  As a result I will not be able to utilize Global Priority Mail Flat Rate Envelopes for shipping tokens outside the US.  This is very bad because the next best option is like 14$ USD more expensive.    At least 1/2 of the orders were international and this will probably cut that demand a lot. 

This, combined with the recent price boosts due to brass prices may reduce demand further and make it more difficult to get critical mass for our 07 tokens.  We can certainly try, but at the current prices, an international order for 200 Brass tokens would be like $70 shipped!! 


Santoro:

Bump again, with a bit of GOOD news.

After a bit of research it seems that the USPS has not eliminated the ability to use flat rate envleopes internationally, they have just changed the rates and type of envleope, and my local post office was unaware.  I have ordered all the proper envelopes recoded the web store to use the new rates.

This is good news for the 2007 tokens.  I was previously worried that the inability to use flat rate envelopes would kill a large chunk of the international demand and make it hard to build critical mass for ordering this year.   That may not be the case.

 :woot



Havok:

Hey Santoro,

Any chance that you can tack on an order of the 2006 tokens to this year's? I missed out on the initial batch, and I'm sure there are others that would also like a chance to pick some up...

Santoro:

It's very possible.  As soon as we know for sure that we are ordering '07 tokens, I'll add some '06 on to it.  It will only be brass due to the 10,000 minimunm on nickel plating. (Unless I get lucky again and they let me combine with the 07 tokens to make the 10,000.  They did last year but I sensed they guy was breaking the rules by doing it.)



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