Hello folks,

If you were a backer on the tarot decks (Misery Tarot, Hot Housewives Tarot), you'll be seeing today that their shipping charges are now assigned to their orders. (Currently happening.) You'll also know we had a really weird, like, month+ delay in getting shipping charge info to us.

That is 100% why we are not on time on this project as well, as the fulfillment company handling that is handling this as well. I have been told, promised really, that I will get shipping charge info from them today for the Oracle Dice projects. The issues that were at hand are largely put away now, and they were extensive issues, let me tell you.

That means I will be processing the charge info they get me today when it arrives, figuring out fees, taxes, tariffs, etc. The ocean freight for getting US and Canadian orders to the US, the warehousing fees, the shipping from the port to the warehouse-- all of that has to be figured and molded into the shipping costs for the US+Canadian backers. (We thought shipping Canadian packages direct from China would be cheaper, but it's not.)

Ideally, I will be able to get this stuff figured out today if I receive the shipping charge info today as expected, but if it comes in at the end of day, I will have to handle all that tomorrow. Then I have to have a Backerkit employee import the spreadsheet of charges to your order-- I can't do that on my own. Luckily I have a good helper who is on top of that fairly quickly.

So ideally, we will have shipping charges on your pledges sometime Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. I will update when they go live. I will then give you until next Friday to get that looked at, when we will charge your orders for shipping costs.

So the delays on everything are lasting a bit longer for the dice than the tarot. Our manufacturer apparently missed out on some red-tape stuff they should have done, and now our fulfillment team is trying to take care of it before they get in trouble for shipping the items.

The short of it is this: 1) Any printer who produces a book, newspaper, thing like that, is supposed to get Pre-Authorization from their province to print that kind of material. It's basically a certification that they are printing... uhh? Something that can spread information? I worked with a boardgame printer who doesn't typically need to do this, and they didn't seem to know it was the law. So technically our guidebooks and journals are illegally printed. However, they've done books for me in the past, so it's super unclear how important or enforced this actually is, because they didn't get pre-authorization for that stuff either.

Fulfillment is trying to figure out how to get it authorized now that it's already printed, or if we can just.... ship anyways?

2) If US customs so desires, they can open a package and look at a product with suspecting eyes, then ask the shipper to provide proof that the items imported are tested. Tested for what you ask-- well, there is a massive freaking list of imported items and what the materials may need tested for. Right now, if customs asks, the manufacturer can get the items tested and then provide results. However, starting July 8th, items that are so asked after need to provide testing results IMMEDIATELY. In fact, it seems the results need to be provided with the shipment more or less.

Our manufacturer didn't know about this change, and so they didn't test anything. This means our fulfilment team is handling that right now, and the test results for all dice items will be back on (or about) the 28th of June.

Once that's taken care of, we can start shipping. Well-- so long as the pre-authorization element is solved. Either by finding a way to get authorization after printing (which is not how it's supposed to work), or by simply shipping. I also read the articles on the rules/laws/regulations myself and think there seems to be an opening for overseas printing, as it's not clarified that overseas shipping must be pre-authorized, so the timeline for overseas printing/publication may be different.

Worst case scenario, uhhh-- our guidebooks and journals are seized and destroyed and we have to reprint those and then they have to get repackaged into the dice sets. But even in that worst case scenario, the books are the fastest and cheapest part of everything to get made again, it would likely delay things 3 weeks-- 1 week to remanufacture, then 2 to transport and repackage. So no one start doomposting here, even the worst case scenario just, frankly, doesn't do all that much to our timeline.

Will let you all know what happens with that shortly, but also there will be shipping charges.

Alright friends, talk very soon about shipping charges,

7DA
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