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Melsonian Arts Council
4 months ago
March Update
Hello everyone!
Thankyou to everyone who backed our little card project we funded this month! When the funds arrive we'll be using our part of the profits to speed up the postage on Stay Frosty. There's not an awful lot left as it is, so the end is in sight!
Thanks for your patience and continued support,
-Dan
Thankyou to everyone who backed our little card project we funded this month! When the funds arrive we'll be using our part of the profits to speed up the postage on Stay Frosty. There's not an awful lot left as it is, so the end is in sight!
Thanks for your patience and continued support,
-Dan
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Melsonian Arts Council
6 months ago
February Update
Hello all!
January is finally over, and it was a lot of month. Good news seems to be that the USA tariffs aren't going to be getting any worse (for now). We're continuing to send them steadily and I'm very happy to see people are receiving and enjoying the book!
Thanks, by the way, to all of you who reached out to offer to pay extra to cover the tariffs. We appreciate the offer but we can't in good conscience accept anything, these are the risks of running a project like this. If we opened the gates to extra payments it would be unfair on those who can't or don't want to pay more. Instead we're going to raise some extra cash by:
January is finally over, and it was a lot of month. Good news seems to be that the USA tariffs aren't going to be getting any worse (for now). We're continuing to send them steadily and I'm very happy to see people are receiving and enjoying the book!
Thanks, by the way, to all of you who reached out to offer to pay extra to cover the tariffs. We appreciate the offer but we can't in good conscience accept anything, these are the risks of running a project like this. If we opened the gates to extra payments it would be unfair on those who can't or don't want to pay more. Instead we're going to raise some extra cash by:
- Offering Stay Frosty for pre-order on the store. These will be done with the tariffs accounted for!
- Moving ahead with a small project to print new Troika initiative cards. This is done in collaboration with Iglootree, who have done all the design, and art for it already and will do the fulfilment when it is completed. We're just handling publishing and production. We will be using our share of the profits to complete or at least speed up the completion of Stay Frosty USA post.
Regardless, books continue to go out slowly but surely.
-Dan
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Melsonian Arts Council
7 months ago
January Update
Happy new year friends! Hope it's been a good one so far.
Fulfilment is rather humdrum for the most part. We've been chasing up the people who got missed in the cracks or came in late, and knocking away at the USA post.
The situation with the USA post is one you have probably heard already! We didn't bank on the regime ignoring court instructions to drop the tariffs in... what?... November? Something like that. While books are indeed 0% rated we have to spend 5x time as long on paperwork and pay courier "admin fees" on every parcel we send which, in addition to the WILD taxes on the shirts, adds up quickly and has led us to be several thousand pounds out of pocket above and beyond the postage we collected (and there's still more to go). Not something we can't handle, but we have to pace ourselves in order stay solvent.
Current schedule for the USA is unknown. We're actively working on it and will keep the monthly updates coming.
All the best,
-Dan
Fulfilment is rather humdrum for the most part. We've been chasing up the people who got missed in the cracks or came in late, and knocking away at the USA post.
The situation with the USA post is one you have probably heard already! We didn't bank on the regime ignoring court instructions to drop the tariffs in... what?... November? Something like that. While books are indeed 0% rated we have to spend 5x time as long on paperwork and pay courier "admin fees" on every parcel we send which, in addition to the WILD taxes on the shirts, adds up quickly and has led us to be several thousand pounds out of pocket above and beyond the postage we collected (and there's still more to go). Not something we can't handle, but we have to pace ourselves in order stay solvent.
Current schedule for the USA is unknown. We're actively working on it and will keep the monthly updates coming.
All the best,
-Dan
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Melsonian Arts Council
8 months ago
December Update
Hello all!
We're chugging away on the USA shipments, which are progressing steadily and have, so far, not had any trouble with tariffs. Neat! We're continuing to pick up anyone who was late to fill in their surveys and popping them in on the pile of post going out. There's no deadline for completing surveys and whatnot, so don't panic if you haven't completed them yet.
Have a good Christmas all!
-Dan
We're chugging away on the USA shipments, which are progressing steadily and have, so far, not had any trouble with tariffs. Neat! We're continuing to pick up anyone who was late to fill in their surveys and popping them in on the pile of post going out. There's no deadline for completing surveys and whatnot, so don't panic if you haven't completed them yet.
Have a good Christmas all!
-Dan
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Melsonian Arts Council
9 months ago
November Update
Hello Frosty People, books are on the way! It's an ongoing process but our warehouse is a production line of boxes and labels and our poor postman is in need of a holiday. The order of fulfilment is in an expanding radius from our front door. Australia, USA and Canada will be last and start processing next week.
Everyone should have their PDFs on Backerkit now, and I'll also send them out on DriveThru and Itch before long.
-Dan
Everyone should have their PDFs on Backerkit now, and I'll also send them out on DriveThru and Itch before long.
-Dan
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Melsonian Arts Council
10 months ago
October Update
Hi all!
People have started receiving their books! Tariffs, as we said before, are proving to be no huge issue, which is a nice surprise. PDFs for the add-ons will be sorted this week for everyone who hasn't received them (we'll blast them on all channels for double-extra certainty).
Home stretch!
-Dan
People have started receiving their books! Tariffs, as we said before, are proving to be no huge issue, which is a nice surprise. PDFs for the add-ons will be sorted this week for everyone who hasn't received them (we'll blast them on all channels for double-extra certainty).
Home stretch!
-Dan
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Hi. I know it's been a while but due to life stuff I've only just got tl look at the book. Cover lovely. Paper quality good. Unfortunately the rest is unreadable for me. It looks like this was formatted for A4 then just printed at A5 - the font is way too small for that book size, the margins are way too wide. With thr sheer volume of white space spare, this really should have been 11 or 12pt on the font so it could be handily read. As it is, I can't use it without excessive magnification. Really hope this cam be addressed for future print
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Melsonian Arts Council
CREATOR
4 months ago
Project Update: March Update
Hello everyone!
Thankyou to everyone who backed our little card project we funded this month! When the funds arrive we'll be using our part of the profits to speed up the postage on Stay Frosty. There's not an awful lot left as it is, so the end is in sight!
Thanks for your patience and continued support,
-Dan
Thankyou to everyone who backed our little card project we funded this month! When the funds arrive we'll be using our part of the profits to speed up the postage on Stay Frosty. There's not an awful lot left as it is, so the end is in sight!
Thanks for your patience and continued support,
-Dan
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Maybe I missed it, but was there any movement on US shipping? I never received a Frosty Physical copy
PROJECT UPDATE
Melsonian Arts Council
CREATOR
6 months ago
Project Update: February Update
Hello all!
January is finally over, and it was a lot of month. Good news seems to be that the USA tariffs aren't going to be getting any worse (for now). We're continuing to send them steadily and I'm very happy to see people are receiving and enjoying the book!
Thanks, by the way, to all of you who reached out to offer to pay extra to cover the tariffs. We appreciate the offer but we can't in good conscience accept anything, these are the risks of running a project like this. If we opened the gates to extra payments it would be unfair on those who can't or don't want to pay more. Instead we're going to raise some extra cash by:
January is finally over, and it was a lot of month. Good news seems to be that the USA tariffs aren't going to be getting any worse (for now). We're continuing to send them steadily and I'm very happy to see people are receiving and enjoying the book!
Thanks, by the way, to all of you who reached out to offer to pay extra to cover the tariffs. We appreciate the offer but we can't in good conscience accept anything, these are the risks of running a project like this. If we opened the gates to extra payments it would be unfair on those who can't or don't want to pay more. Instead we're going to raise some extra cash by:
- Offering Stay Frosty for pre-order on the store. These will be done with the tariffs accounted for!
- Moving ahead with a small project to print new Troika initiative cards. This is done in collaboration with Iglootree, who have done all the design, and art for it already and will do the fulfilment when it is completed. We're just handling publishing and production. We will be using our share of the profits to complete or at least speed up the completion of Stay Frosty USA post.
Regardless, books continue to go out slowly but surely.
-Dan
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