Marco Polo TTB - Done!
I know everyone’s tired of waiting, but I missed the post office by a matter of minutes. Frustrating! Good news is it’s packed, sealed, labeled and ready to go! :)
The box began it’s merry journey yesterday and Marzipan should have it by tomorrow. Good news, shipping HUGE boxes of tea costs less than I thought! Just $11 even though the box weighed over 5 pounds (you TTB veterans know that’s BIG!) :)
Wow…this box!
Just brewed up the first one!
I thought you said you’d post pictures. Have you and I missed them?
Nice pictures! :D Mandy posted a picture of Lewis & Clarke too and I’m so excited.
I’ll probably end up pulling out samples to try and going ahead and sending the box. There were some teas I could eliminate – like Noble Mark, since I have some of that from their sampler. I had already tried the black from Green Terrace and Red Queen from Butiki. I’m hoping to send it out by mid week.
That’s what I did, sorted out the stuff that I either already have or don’t want to try. Still, that left ~20 that I want to try. I’m going to try to sample as much as I can in the next day or two, and pull samples of the rest and send it back out.
With some boxes that works. With others, what happens is I’ll try a tea, and then that makes me want to try something that I hadn’t pulled out. With the MzPriss (Mostly) Unflavored TTB, I pulled out a bunch I wanted to try. After trying some of those, I went back through the box and pulled out different ones, and put some of the ones I had pulled back in. It was fun and funny.
I’m sending this out to Carol today. I pulled out some small samples to try still, but the box doesn’t need to sit here and wait. It weighed the same as it did when I got it. I added in several varieties of TeaVivre teas, and the Global Tea Hut August oolong that came in my box.
Carol Who received the box. Great ready Amanda!
I sent a message yesterday but with all the problems on the site, it looks like it didn’t go through.The box is moving on to Amanda!
Somehow my husband thought I needed his input (No, I didn’t) and he crammed it all into a Flat rate box. It cost $4 less. If you want to put it in a bigger box, that’s up to you. I’m not sure why he felt he needed to get involved but in the theory of picking your battles in a marriage, I didn’t feel this was anything to make a fuss over. :) I will however, not let him see any future TTBs! Also the box cost $8.10 to ship and weighed about 5 lbs. 1 oz. The newer box weighed a bit less than the original.
I enjoyed the box and wish I could keep all of it!
Have a great week!
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