Editing The Pen Addict 427/transcript (section)

== Partnership Roles ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and actually, and we've kind of talked about how we put it together before. I generally, I take the lead on all of it. And if I'm good, I'm good. If I need help, I say, hey, Myke, I need help. And then we just, you just handle it. And then like, it's done. And we're really good about that every week. Sometimes it's done.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You do the partnership. You do the before the show, and I do the after the show. Yeah. You know? Yeah, and sometimes it's done days ahead of time. Sometimes it's done minutes ahead of time. But it always gets done, right? We always deliver. Speaking of delivering, Brad. Oh, look at you. Look at you. I've been seeing the Retro 51 celebrations start to appear in the wild. People have been sending pictures. Like, even in my fair country, I've seen someone with them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah. So, we're shipped as of yesterday. I have dropped off at the post office through backer number 650. That means I have about 200 more to go, which I should be able to get done before the weekend. That's my plan. So, wrap that up. I want to make a comment just real quick because I'm getting a lot of questions about the USPS right now. It's a little bit of a show right now to send a package to the US mail. They're having some difficulties. And so, that affects these shipments, which, you know, they're my shipment provider for this campaign. And what's happening is we're getting a lot of early scans or a lot of prep scans people are seeing in their tracking and then not getting a scan for days and days and days. And then the package will just show up the next day kind of thing. So, I'm getting emails. Every email I've gotten that's explained this scenario, the package has eventually showed up in like a day or two. They're like, it's been seven days. It hasn't moved. It hasn't scanned. And then I'll get an email the next day say, it's here. So, it's been consistently poor, but the packages are showing up. I haven't had anything lost yet. You know, cross his fingers. You know, it happens. There's, you know, that's why I have extra pens and things like that. But don't panic if the tracking isn't updating as you would normally expect it to. We're unfortunately not in normal times with the USPS and it is affecting things like package tracking and delivery. So, things are delayed. Things are not tracking appropriately. And just be patient. So far, so good on actual deliveries. And we'll just keep monitoring it. So, thank you all for your patience. And we'll have this thing wrapped up here in another week or so. And then I'll spend the rest of my life tracking down like the 30 addresses I need from people that didn't respond to the survey. So, if that's you, please email me or contact me via Kickstarter. I would like to get you your pen so I don't have to sit here and hold it through eternity. Oh, speaking of which, speaking of holding pens to eternity, Myke. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I grabbed your stuff. It's all together. Like, it's in one place in the shipping area. So, I just have to box your stuff up. Wow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's like, that means it's close. It's just moved. Ish. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's gathered. It's in the gathered state. Okay. Right by my shipping desk. And then I'll probably just like, I get so focused on the other 200 packages I have to ship. And I'm like, sweet, got them done. Then I'll go to the post office and like, oops, I forgot that one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What happened? What happened, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' You'll get there, my friend. You're going to get there. I believe in you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I will get there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nice work, though.