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Jedicartographer
Posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 7:47:35 AM
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I am very seriously toying with the idea of delaying shipping on the new maps until the weather clears up. When I shipped out Map pack 2 in the winter time, I had to replace alot of map packs that were damaged by the weather. With such a limited quantity of maps I don't want to chance destroying the one we have.

Any thoughts?
Demosthenes
Posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 7:50:54 AM
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You can send mine! No snow here, lol
Jester007
Posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 8:28:32 AM
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Plastic wrap?
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Posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 8:28:34 AM
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Jedicartographer wrote:
I am very seriously toying with the idea of delaying shipping on the new maps until the weather clears up. When I shipped out Map pack 2 in the winter time, I had to replace alot of map packs that were damaged by the weather. With such a limited quantity of maps I don't want to chance destroying the one we have.

Any thoughts?


I'd definitely wait until the 2100-mile storm passes. Not sure about waiting the whole winter, though.
Azman
Posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 6:58:08 PM
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Beautiful and sunny in Perth (australia) !!!!

Avoid the big storms / and / plastic wrap sounds great.

Dont really want to pay for damaged maps.
Jedicartographer
Posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 8:16:19 PM
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Jester007 wrote:
Plastic wrap?


I've already packaged everything. I am not going to tear throug hall that just to repackage it. The envelopes are just too expensive.
Sashlon
Posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 8:21:07 PM
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Hey Matt, just do what you think is best. We all trust you 110%, and no one wants their maps damaged, so if you think a delay is wise then do it.

Congrats on getting so many of your maps made legal btw, long overdueCool
qvos
Posted: Tuesday, February 1, 2011 10:24:27 PM
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Sashlon wrote:
Hey Matt, just do what you think is best. We all trust you 110%, and no one wants their maps damaged, so if you think a delay is wise then do it.

Congrats on getting so many of your maps made legal btw, long overdueCool

Agreed, Just be safe, We will get the maps when we get them and we probably won't even know the difference. You've done great work.. Dont sweat it.
cicrush13
Posted: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 2:49:33 AM
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I'm fine with waiting a little longer to make sure the map is coming undamaged. Thanks for letting us know!
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tonythetoyman
Posted: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 3:45:01 AM
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FlyingArrow wrote:
I'd definitely wait until the 2100-mile storm passes. Not sure about waiting the whole winter, though.

+1

I think it is a good idea to wait until a storm that is affecting a big part of the country passes, but I hope we don't have to wait until spring to get them. On the other hand, I think the most important thing is to get them to folks in good condition, and I'm happy to wait as long as necessary to make that happen.

An idea for the future (if its not too expensive) might be to purchase the small bags that MapMaker ships his maps in as that would protect them from all but the most sever water damage.

Regardless of what you decide, I'd also like to add a +1 to the fact that you let us know what is going on (this is always very helpful).
Jedicartographer
Posted: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 4:54:33 AM
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Yeah as we get bigger, we are going to have to set up packaging. I agree.

super_fly
Posted: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 5:37:34 AM
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Appreciate the concern. Works for me.
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tonythetoyman wrote:
FlyingArrow wrote:
I'd definitely wait until the 2100-mile storm passes. Not sure about waiting the whole winter, though.

+1

I think it is a good idea to wait until a storm that is affecting a big part of the country passes, but I hope we don't have to wait until spring to get them. On the other hand, I think the most important thing is to get them to folks in good condition, and I'm happy to wait as long as necessary to make that happen.

An idea for the future (if its not too expensive) might be to purchase the small bags that MapMaker ships his maps in as that would protect them from all but the most sever water damage.

Regardless of what you decide, I'd also like to add a +1 to the fact that you let us know what is going on (this is always very helpful).


Totally Agree. No point in sending them out for another week or two.
Jedi Christian
Posted: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 10:15:29 AM
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Considering how often we do not get storms like this. I can wait a little longer.
Jedicartographer
Posted: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 11:15:57 PM
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I did ship out 20 of them last night, mostly to Va and the south. California as well.
ecs05norway
Posted: Thursday, February 3, 2011 1:13:07 PM
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New maps? Which would these be?
AdmiralMotti89
Posted: Thursday, February 3, 2011 3:50:18 PM
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Just being 100% honest, although this notion may have been ignorant on my part, but I expected to get the maps by late January.

I think it's a bit unreasonable to wait till spring because of weather reasons. USPS isn't perfect, but they are pretty good. Living in Michigan's upper peninsula I am no stranger to winter weather (mid october-late april some years), and I have yet to have any mail problems in my four years here.

Just being honest I feel like we have waited long enough from where things stood on November 3.
Jedicartographer
Posted: Thursday, February 3, 2011 8:40:46 PM
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AdmiralMotti89 wrote:
Just being 100% honest, although this notion may have been ignorant on my part, but I expected to get the maps by late January.

I think it's a bit unreasonable to wait till spring because of weather reasons. USPS isn't perfect, but they are pretty good. Living in Michigan's upper peninsula I am no stranger to winter weather (mid october-late april some years), and I have yet to have any mail problems in my four years here.

Just being honest I feel like we have waited long enough from where things stood on November 3.




Nobody is waiting until late spring!

Snd I'm extremely thrilled you've never had damaged mail due to weather. I have, often.

And The maps were never going to be ready by late january. I didn't even get the funds until late january.

It's irrelavant anyhow, because everything is getting shipped out this week, I just wanted to let the storm pass, and it did.




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