Puerh Travelling Tea Box - On its way!

I’ll put you near the end of the list. That should give you a couple of months to unpack.

Excellent! I’m looking forward to this :)

Most travelling tea boxes, including this one, require a fairly long and active history on Steepster before letting people join. When I checked your profile, you’re not there yet.

The reason for this rule is that people have a tendency to get really excited when they first find steepster but often drift away. You’re about the 10th person I’ve sent this message to, and only 2 of them were still around when the box returned 4-5 months later. If you stay active, you’ll have other opportunities.

You’re too late for the Sheng Olympics, but you might look into the dark matter group purchase. It will give you a lot of the same features as the travelling tea box as well as draw you into the community.

Tyler hang around and post a bit. I followed you and if you do the same we can message. I saw mainly puerh in your cupboard so you will fit in with us pu heads. Give time to see you active and you will be in here with us.

Followed you

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That;s a BIG box Dr Jim! WOW!

It’s actually considerably smaller than the third round. However, after splitting off the beginner’s box, we have just an amazing average quality level. The donations from MrMopar, Essence of Tea, and Misty Peaks kicked the quality (and quantity) up a notch as well. There’s also some great left-overs from all the tea W2T gave us for the last box, though I shunted about 2/3 of that into the beginner’s box.

how many boxes will you ship?

This is a travelling tea box, so it is just one box that circulates. There are also several non-puerh boxes circulating as well, but I’m not involved in them.

I currently have two boxes circulating. The original Puerh box was getting kind of big, and I’ve been wanting to start a Puerh beginners box. This box is strictly limited to Puerh, while the beginners box lets people replace a certain amount of puerh with other tea, so someone can try a wide variety of puerh even if they don’t own much.

sounds great, i love puerh so…
but i live in canada.

I looked into that for the first box, but sending 4 or 5 pounds of tea to Canada was just ridiculously expensive.

I’m sure there are enough Canadian puerh drinkers on Steepster to create a Canadian Puerh Tea TTB. Why don’t you start one?

me? not sure i have enough tea to start one, plus im attached to most of them lol. hows it work?

The secret to starting a TTB is to have more tea than you can possibly drink. It takes about 2 pounds of tea to have a good start, but when I wanted to start this one, several people sent me stuff to add, so I’d guess that the first box was about 75% my tea.

There is already a non-puerh Canadian tea box. You might ask them if there is much puerh content. If you drink other teas, that might be a simple way to start out.

Once you have enough tea to start one post on the main board for Canadian puerh drinkers, that’s all. You would need to set rules for it like Dr Jim did. That’s to make sure the box doesn’t get lost.

oh man if i had a cake for every sample size i have we’d be good lol. but that is not the case. im thinking that by the time i have that much tea, a canadian puerh ttb will have been started.. o well

7 is Ok if that’s what you usually do. I’m just hoping not everyone takes that much. Glad you got the box in time to enjoy it on the weekend.

awesome :D I am too, I was so excited when I saw it at the mail box. This is a superb box of tea.

IMHO every round has been a big step up from the last. Don’t know how much longer that can continue, but it’s a lot of fun.

So… you’re after me and I like my tea bribes :P

if it moves slowly then hopefully it won’t change, then you get the Banas. Not much in beenghole, I mostly got bricks.

I think we should be OK with the current order. Everyone usually takes at least a week and there are 3 people ahead of you. Worst case we can ask someone to sit on the box for an extra few days. Since you are the sole west coast person it would kind of mess the order up to change, though we could certainly do so if we need to.

Hi Char (or should I say “Hoot!”). I can coordinate when to ship the box if it’s close to your moving date since I’m right before you in the list.

Ok cool TeaExplorer. It would be easier to PM me on Teafriends Slack when everything goes down, I might be mobile only for awhile and Steepster mobile is crap.

Will do.

Okay, I got dates and things booked. I’m flying to Seattle on April 9th. I should have a PO box set up before I arrive.

I’d recommend that curlygc and TeaExplorer each take a couple extra days with the box, just to create some slack. I suspect Awkward Soul will be pretty busy right after the move.

Also, @TeaExplorer: Look into postage rates, but I suspect that the best deal mailing to Seattle from FL will be to use a flat-rate box. Awkward Soul can then use the flat-rate box to Liquid Proust, who’ll need to go back to a regular box.

Will do, Dr Jim, on both counts.

Taking some extra time will not be an issue for me; I expect to get the box in the middle of my work week (after a four-day weekend, arg!) so I won’t really get to it until the weekend anyway. I won’t rush :-)