Editing The Pen Addict 422/transcript (section)

== Pen Shipments ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Well, one of the things on my list, and maybe unfortunately for some listeners, it's going to be at the top of the list for the next several podcasts, is we've got to give an update on the Big Pen Addict Kickstarter campaign, right? Which is really, I'm just pretty much calling it the Retro 51 campaign now, because that's what it ended up being. But as everyone knows, I got the pens in. The posters are shipping to me, which you saw the link for those, right? So those look great from Skylab Letterpress, and I'll have those today or tomorrow. Once I get those, I want to appropriately measure them for packaging, right? Because it's a poster and a pen, so I want to use a tube where I can roll the poster and put the pen in the middle. That seems like the most efficient way to ship these. But I have to order like 1,000 units of packaging, so I'm very nervous about getting that correct, because if I make a mistake with envelopes, I can reuse envelopes. I'm not going to be reusing tubes anytime soon, I don't think. So this is all happening soon. So I went ahead and sent out the shipping survey from Kickstarter yesterday. So anyone listening, if you happen to catch this and are a supporter of our recent Pen Addict Kickstarter campaign, and you haven't already filled out your survey, please go check your email or log into Kickstarter. If you log into Kickstarter, they'll pop up an alert and say, Hey, there's one survey ready for you to fill out. Go fill out that information. So when I get these packing tubes in in the next week or so, I can start shipping these out. Myke, are you getting excited for these to be out in the wild?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'll be even more excited if you 100% commit on this show to send me mine within some kind of due time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. I will send yours. Let's see what's today. I will send yours out in the first batch that I ship.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's very kind of you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that will be like, you're not special.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, even what that means is I will get it early or everybody else is going to get them in like nine years. Because that's how it tends to be of shipping things to me. That's what you do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah, that's true. That's true. So, yeah. And like, I don't know, before the end of the month, you should have it hopefully. That's awesome. I'm super excited. I can't commit to earlier than that just if I don't know when the packaging is going to arrive. But I checked all the inventory for the packaging and I was looking through packaging sizes. That's one of the most boring things on my checklist is, hey, let's go shop for tubes. And you wouldn't believe the fun I had yesterday. Do I go craft paper or white? Ooh, these red ones are fancy, but they're more expensive. So, you know, whatever. It was a good day. But they all look in stock. So, whenever I place an order for my thousand tubes that the UPS driver is going to be mad at me about.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I don't think it'll take very long. So, there you go. That was a lot about nothing, Myke. So, we should do a show.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I wonder if the UPS guy will be more upset with the thousand tubes or the thousand pens. Because I guess the tubes, there's just, it's a lot of mass. But the pens is weight, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, I do wonder about that. Because they are so light. All the packing supply boxes are so light. But I imagine if it's a busy run that it would take up so much space in the truck, it could be a problem. Right? To where they couldn't fit other people's packaging.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Surely you would have, like, a personal relationship with your delivery people at this point. Oh, I do. I do. Yeah. I do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're very nice. Yeah. I'll get them to take the heavier packages. It's like when the Retro 51s come, I get them to drive them around to the shipping department instead of, like, the front door. And they're cool with that.