Mehrican Exchange Ver. 1--Emails sent out, check 'em!
16Hey party starters.
Thanks again for your patience. My vacation was pretty great and emails were sent out this morning. Please check to make sure you got this email and send out the packages in the next few days! If you have any questions or concerns let them be known below!
--studerc
Also for those curious, there was a total of 41 participants in the exchange and 72 exchanges will be made in total. Overall, for how small the community still is right now, I'm pretty happy with these numbers. Hopefully everyone will have a meh experience!
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Hurray! Got my names! Glad your vacation was successful/relaxing/exciting/whatever else!
Thank you for my names! Looking forward to the thread revealing all of our packages :)
And I'll go ahead and play the role of smartass here: That's what she said.
Got it. I've got my box packed up and ready to be sent to my victim... err... recipient
Got the email. Thanks
Got mine and digging through the trash currently. I guess you could say these things about about to be...
meh-cycled.
@LumpsRGood I'm glad someone else in this world gets; "sunglasses". My wife and I use it after any obvious or bad one liners.
@LumpsRGood YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
@LumpsRGood
What size/weight package do most people send? Do most people just use the flat rate boxes/envelopes? Excited to pack up my box of Meh and see who gets it!
@frog I am curious about this too, I have a 12x8x8 with a few items in it at the moment, but not sure what service to ship with either.
@frog Quite a few people use flat rate boxes, never heard of anyone using an envelope. Typically things get a bit out of hand as people get pretty extreme with this.
@TaRDy Truth be told, it's kind of up to you. Lots of people use the USPS, but others will use FedEx or UPS. Doesn't really matter as long as the package gets there...eventually :)
I'm gonna make sure the two boxes I send out are actually awesome.
Pro tip: don't be an asshole. People are gonna go way above and beyond and you don't want to be that tool that doesn't "get it" and just gives a small envelope with a few things in it. You will likely be publicly shamed.
Rest assured that I will be there to take the blame for any bullshit packages. I might join in next go 'round..
Let me be the first to preemptively say that my package was packed and shipped by @marklog
I wonder if people will realize that I still have all of their home information on file. A single address posting on a forum could get out of hand real quick!
@studerc
@JonT No worries, knowing this community I don't foresee anyone doing something so terrible. Wait a minute....shit that's exactly what might happen.
@JonT Also, I will now pretend that this gif is what you actually look like.
@studerc I'm alright with that.
@JonT gifstealer.
@studerc Is there anyway you could email the user name(s) so we can @ them here to let them know their stuff is on the way?
@bill7718 I think surprises are fun. Plus that's a lot of work.
@bill7718 just to show I'm not a total jerk face I emailed you your recipient.
@studerc Thanks! Got it
@studerc I sent you an email asking for the username.. If you don't wanna send it that's fine, but if you could at least tell me if they match the criteria I mentioned in the email, I'd like that!! Thanks!!
Thank you for doing this!!! Dear person that I have. I have to go to colorado tomorrow. Yours will ship Monday.
You are in Maryland so you'll get gifties by weds/thurs (ish).
Is it weird to facebook stalk them first to gauge how disappointed they will be based on their likes and what you pack in their box?
@TaRDy Nah, so not weird. I googled mine. I wish I hadn't. Now I'm all concerned that my box is definitely going to suck so hard. If you read this, recipient victim of mine, I triiiiiiiiiiiied...
@goldenthorn my newest concern is that my first name can be both male and female, so I hope they don't put lady things in there thinking I am a woman.
@TaRDy My person has a very unique name.. And when I googled their name in quotes I only got one hit. Their google plus page, which has no info on it.
I sent mine out today. I tried to make it awesome, I hope I didn't fail too hard.
I'll try to send mine out tomorrow. To who ever recieves mine, sorry for having me.
I am on vacation right now but will be home tomorrow to learn my recipient's name. I will try to mail on Saturday; if not then it shall be Monday.
Mine will go out Monday. Because I can't find the other box that needs to go to the post office, and I'm going to do it after work, so unless I find the other one tomorrow morning, it's Monday. (There's not a convenient post office to my home, alas.) I'm putting things I hope they find funny.
@Jamileigh17 Shipped! Though looking at the below ones, i'm thinking mine might get a followup box sometime soon, because I'm getting ideas...
@studerc - Hai, just tossing an idea out there - it would add more work... but would it be worthwhile to have people email you the tracking #'s, so you know who's sent their stuff? Since you're the mediator, it seems like that could help track who does/doesn't send their boxes.
@Thumperchick I will entertain your suggestion. For those able to, please forward tracking numbers to mehexchange@gmail.com .
Good thinking. Emailed mine. :)
Hubbys & mine are emailed for our two unlucky future recipients of blah-blah-blah Meh-ness!
@studerc In case you don't monitor that email, I am forwarding some tracking numbers.
I wonder what box is traveling the greatest distance...Texas to New York for mine....can you tell I'm a math teacher?
@escowhat I can now
My box is going ~2600 miles. I'm guessing yours is around 2000? Both those states are fairly large so it's hard to know. But I think I have you beat.
@escowhat mine is south Texas to NY. Google says 1967 miles and 29 hours in current traffic.
@bill7718 I'm impressed that you're driving to deliver your box. Is that with or without toll roads?
@escowhat It's 1967 miles to New York, I got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, a 12 pack of beer, it's dark... and I'm wearing sunglasses. I should be able to make Mathis before I have to stop and pee.
@bill7718 Mine is headed to New York as well....I'll meet you in College Station. I gotta be back by the 20th.
@escowhat Chicken Oil Co. for burgers. I'll buy!
I mailed mine to Korea. it's like 12000 miles. did I win?
2782 miles for mine.
2003 miles for mine, IL to CA.
@escowhat Atlanta to San Diego. 2100 miles. You'd think it'd be more going from east to west coast, but I guess there's not much latitude change.
Did I get skipped again? I thought I had made it clear I wanted to pass crap on to you people.
@xarous pretty positive I never got an email from you. Did you send it to mehexchange@gmail.com ? I'll look again.
Boxes going out today, just small ones stuffed with crap because I couldn't find boxes big enough for the Lamborghinis.
A lot of people are about to be shit on.
Sent mine this morning :) I'm excited for the recipient to be disappointed!
@kadagan I'll be dissapointed if the recipient of mine gets excited
@kadagan "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if dozens of voices suddenly cried out in indifference. I fear something terribly meh has happened."
@studerc When the next exchange is happening, will you send emails to everyone who was in it this time? Or will we need to watch the forums?
@kadagan I could probably do that.
I didn't get an email, I don't think. Can you please check for me?
@therealmrsbeny Email sent!
Packing box now. The retail value of all the stuff I'm sending when it was new is over $200. Vale today: $0.
@phatmass Is it Iraqi currancy, pre 2003?
@phatmass 200 rotting avocados?
@kadagan Are you a fellow New Iraqi Dinar millionaire?
I've been gathering
crapwonderful items. I will try to ship tomorrow morning. If not tomorrow then Monday. I just had the brilliant idea of including a copy of my former band's last CD. It should be sufficiently meh. After all, our band's catchphrase was "Adequate!" (in the manner of Mr. Burns' "excellent").Sent yesterday. Arriving Monday.
@SSteve heh, looks like I was the lucky recipient!
A coworker was cleaning out another cube and found some Canadian Maple Syrup...I wonder if the plastic bag the glass container is in qualifies as "sealed"....
In the hands of the USPS and due to arrive on Monday. Prepare to be mehhed!
Hey there, user who knows what follows after "Tet"! Your box isn't getting shipped out until tomorrow because I just wrapped, stuffed, and taped it up and that's more than enough work for a day. So impending disappointment is now impending + 1. I'll reply to this comment tomorrow with the estimated date of delivery at your workplace. Cheers and sorry!
@goldenthorn Alright, Cali victim, your 11lb 3oz Priority Mail large box should be arriving at your place of work on Monday! Hope you'll be hungry (bring roast beef and french bread, ok?)!
@goldenthorn There you are! Turns out it's impossible to search for user names on the forum either with the meh.com search or with Google. Anyway, I can't wait to get home tonight and unpack the box.
45 minutes and $18 at the local FedEx Office store and my box has been shipped...it will leave FedEx Monday and arrive Wednesday to some poor soul.
@TaRDy $18 for shipping?! That's insane! @marklog, what do you have to say for yourself?
@JonT yeah since I am near Dallas, can I take this to the meh warehouse and have yall ship it for free since I'm a VMP?
@1298ty I should have gone flat rate box but all of the employees there claimed ground was the cheapest way to go, so at the 45 minute mark when I finally found out $18, I said F it and just paid the money so I could be done with it.
@TaRDy 1st attempt at USPS 9x9x14 box...$60 Back to my office n repacked in flat rate box $17
@escowhat @JonT The power of VMP compels you. The power of VMP compels you.
Same experience for our boxes as TaRDy - the cost to ship each of them far exceeded the total Meh-less street value excitement factor of the contents. Oh, well.......
Mine will be shipped to some mehrican in NY on Monday via UPS. If this is the roof of your house keep an eye out for the brown truck late next week!
@bill7718 stalk much?
@escowhat Nope. But I have mulched stalks.
@bill7718 its cool....I used name and address to find a PDF document that got me more info on my person including work and home phone numbers...supposedly....
@escowhat Perhaps let them know that so they can try to have it removed?
@bluedyn que? Its with a national organization that has an upstanding reputation and shows he's an expert in his field...I think it's cool...
@bill7718 nice house bill
@TaRDy Thanks!
@bill7718 damn, I got the wrong bill, let's try this 1 more time...
@escowhat work phone #, sure. home phone #, somewhat invasive. recon on someone's likes and dislikes so you can gift them well, priceless.
@bluedyn I sent an email to gain discernment but no reply....it could be "dummy" information
I feel oddly left out.
@nathanK me too. Let's join unofficially and trade our own.
@nathanK I mentioned multiple times that staff could/should participate.
@studerc haha I'm a newbie who deals with speaker docks exclusively. Wait, no. Koreans. I just thought it's meh, and wanted to say something meh
Am I first??? I got my box today and I LOVE all the stuff, thank you so much, whoever you are!!! My boxes were sent out today as well :)
Hope to do this again in the future :)
oops the iPad Keyboard was charging, so I forgot to include it in the pic!
@bdecker202 Yaaaay that was my box- I didn't fail at being awesome? Huzzah! :D
Oh, and I thought I put a silly flowery laptop sleeve in there too- but maybe I am wrong. LOL
@Pony definitely not! You did fail at being Meh however... Thanks again!!!!
@Pony shoot. I'm terrible. I forgot the flowery laptop sleeve and the squeaky seal. I was just so excited to take a picture that I left them out
@bdecker202 Oh lordy- I forgot the seal too. LOL Those two items were very "meh" so forgetting them is understandable. ;)
So... I haven't stalked anyone in any way, shape, or form.
HOWEVER I must say that the receiver of one of my boxes, which shall ship Monday, is getting a special shirt I happened upon today at the store.
HOWEVER HOWEVER my wife, bless her heart, thought it was for me and removed the tag. It has not been worn, I assure you.
HOWEVER HOWEVER HOWEVER if it weren't so dadgum fitting for this exchange, I wouldn't send it. You'll see.
Oh, YOU'LL SEE!!
My benefactor likes packing peanuts! alot!!
@Mehhhhhh what else did you receive?!
@Mehhhhhh Those are some quality peanuts right there. Probably worth more than the actual crap.
@chellemonkey .. I tried to add the other picture apparently it didn't go through....
@phatmass They are quality peanuts. You can tell me what you think of the actual items
@Mehhhhhh That stuff looks AWESOME!!!
@Mehhhhhh I'm feeling bad that I didn't put as much as I wanted in my box (for someone else).. I was rushed, just coming home from one business trip and leaving for another. When I get home in a few weeks I may have to send a 2nd box!
@phatmass It's pretty cool. I think I will used the beer glass while talking to the little Indian over some Etta James :-)
Got home from work very late to find my box...
Dora Backpack
Plastic tablecloth
Reading glasses
Intellitouch tuner
Earwarmer headphones
Dollar General picture frame
Mini sharpies (3)
Lowes pencil
Generic mp3 device
Clock
Rechargable batteries with charger
Overall, I must say... amazingly MEH! Thanks!!!
@phatmass Did the kid come with bubble wrap?
@RicoSuave That kid was stuffed in the backpack. Hungry as hell when she got here.
@phatmass That guitar tuner just needs batteries. It has been in my desk drawer since I got my new one. Works great though
I received my box today.
It is an astoundingly meh box of crap and I thank you for it, sender!
@goldenthorn Was there also a tail of a cat in the box?
@phatmass Yeah, see, meh had sent me some cat legs in their fuck you buckaroo, and this fabulous meh-er was kind enough to add a tail to their box. Just a few more parts to go before I have a whole cat!
Looking forward to seeing the rest of these come in!
Really cool seeing all of the participation and awesome job coordinating everything @studerc.
Seeing our community do things like this warms the cockles of my heart.
@JonT heheh, you said cockles.
Got my first box just now (maybe from @goldenthorn ?). There's too much stuff in here to unpack at work and it's packed in tight so it'll never all go back in the box once I take it out. It looks like there's a lot of food things, international things, and some international food.
Sneak peak:
@SSteve That doesn't look 'Mehrican at all!
@SSteve Heehee, yes, 'tis from me. Hope you enjoy! International mix is the 'Mehrican-ist thing of all! Tho there IS a jar of local Chicago specialty giardiniera. Wiki dat 'ish!
@bdecker202 I just sent yours today (pretty sure it's yours)...I sent you an epically awesome box.
You're welcome.
@patti aw really?!?! OMG. You're the best, can't wait to see what Meh'ness i have in store! :)
Accidentally mailed mine next day air since the lady at the post office mumbled through questions and printed the label before I even knew what she asked. It will make it to atlanta by wednesday now, so I guess that makes up for not shipping it before the weekend.
Mine is on the way! Going to take a week for USPS to get almost 12# of meh from south Texas to NY state. $35.48 to ship. Do I win for most expensive shipping?
Sent out boxes to Arlington, TX and Port Republic, VA via FedEx Express Saver this evening. Their large boxes hold more than large USPS boxes, but still not quite roomy enough. If you'd like to stalk the tracking #s let me know.
@bluedyn I think your recipient signed up for multiple packages. Did they have an issue with the zip code you were given too?
@TaRDy Yeah, FedEx told me Port Republic was Harrisonburg. I trusted the zip instead of the city. Did you do the same?
Just googled the street. Not sure I chose wisely.
@Foxborn Would you like to help us out with your correct city/state/zip? I could probably redirect my FedEx if I got it wrong.
@bluedyn So SUPER SORRY. had a very recent change in address and used the old zip code it is Port Republic, Va
@Foxborn And the correct zip code is? I'll reach out to FE to try to redirect it, but I need to be sure I have all the details.
@bluedyn sorry 24471
@Foxborn Aw, FedEx wants $12 to correct the address. I'm not at all sure the stuff in the box is worth what I'm now spending to ship it. I do hope you enjoy it because now I'm feeling pretty mediocre about it.
@bluedyn can they holf it at their Fishersville va location im having to work near there
@bluedyn @TaRDy sorry about any confusion. I simply forwarded the information I recieved. Hopefully everything will work out..
@studerc @bluedyn No worries, the good news is that one of us went for the Zip and the other went for the City.
@studerc For ease of shipping, on the next round can you collect phone #s? Aside from USPS, most shippers require one.
Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that you can post your results on the new thread I will be making to make it easier to view all the results.
@studerc Thanks!
I'm the jerkiest jerk ever. I haven't been able to send my box until my lunch break today. And seeing these previous boxes I feel like mine is more crap than meh. All my more meh-y meh is still packed in boxes from my move I guess. Sorry in advance, recipient.
@chellemonkey don't apologize, just blame @marklog
@chellemonkey I'm having box content anxiety, too, but I say blame the over packers. They weren't properly meh.
@TaRDy Of course! I forgot that it was @marklog 's fault! He totally kept me from mailing this meh
@chellemonkey sorry some dude didn't get their shit
I'll confess too, I only sent mine out today also. 5 people are in for a slightly belated bonanza of awesome in 2 days.
@Starblind Don't feel to bad mine are ready but I couldn't get away from work long enough to get to the Post office, they promised tomorrow
Don't worry friends and neighbors, after seeing the results, I am ashamed of my box and have considered calling for a do-over. If there's flair for meh-iest box of meh, I might win. If I wanted flair, that is.
But check the design I added to the box, I am semi-proud of myself.
@LumpsRGood That is pretty sharp.
Received #1 of 2 yesterday, and the two I sent should arrive today.
Tracking #s if interested:
@becca Tejas, donde solo entendemos espanol...
How many are still waiting? I haven't gotten anything yet.
@Pony Me too. Still waiting also.
@RicoSuave Ah, good. Mehsery loves company. ;)
@Pony I feel more calm now knowing someone else is suffering with me.
@Pony I'm still waiting....I know the one I sent just made it there today
@Pony mine went out a little late but I know at least one has arrived, if it helps I sent to Flowering Mount, TX Charlotte, NC Oxford, AL Bluff City, TN and SAn diego , CA
@Foxborn That's a lot of boxes! But none of them are for me. I'm in Lakewood, WA. ;)
@Pony I went for five it was a ton of fun and I already have a start on the next round when ever that happens. Sorry I didn't have you though, all but the San Diego got delivered today. Best of Luck I don't think I was the last to send out so it should be coming!
@Foxborn Yeah, I'm not worried, just anxious for something to do because I have no life. LOL
@Pony I got one of two. Salt Lake City here. Not too worried - I shipped mine a bit late, too (though they both now list delivered)
@Foxborn Oxford, AL represent!
@LumpsRGood Dallas, Tx. Represent!
@Pony Don't feel alone, I still haven't gotten mine. There's an inherent risk when participating in something like this. I just hope that @studerc is keeping track so we know who to omit next time around.
When is the next exchange going down? Anytime soon?