So here's the thing. After I published my last update a few hours ago, I started thinking about ways I could get shipments out faster. As it is, it costs me about $15-18 to ship out each backpack, and about $5-8 to ship out each smaller item. There's over 900 backers I need to send rewards to--not all have backpacks and not all have smaller items. 

What I'm thinking is, what if I just quickly shipped out every backpack FIRST, and then later when I get in the plush/pins, I can ship those out separate? But I would be eating an extra $5-8 per shipment to do that to several hundred people. Would you guys want me to split shipments, or would you prefer to wait for the entire shipment to come together? I have several large conventions at the end of July and into August that I would like to bring the Conpanions to (Metrocon, Otakon, Fan Expo Boston), but I won't be able to if I haven't shipped out all rewards yet. So I'm thinking it might just be worth splitting up shipments and getting all the backpacks out as soon as possible, so that y'all have your backpacks for con season AND I can bring them with me to my cons. It would cost me an extra $1.5-2k in shipping fees, but... 

What do you guys think???