Great Canadian Mass Shipment Bones Race

[ShadowRaven]

Perhpas in Winnipeg, but here in Alberta summer lasts from about june 1 through to mid September. Had family up from South Carolina two years ago, and it shocked them that at 9:00 pm it was still daylight

[Dan Goodchild]

Which, sadly, means the winner of the great Canadian Bones race will be someone in a major urban center. Which is not me

 

Or someone who drove half-way across the bloody continent to pick up a vampire box at Reapercon.

[buglips*the*goblin]

I once mailed a package across town, some years ago, and it had to be flown to Toronto to be sorted and then flown back here for delivery.

[Falhurk]

So, I'm in Vancouver (well Burnaby really, but that's the same thing).

 

Vampire x1

Figure Case x2
Hydra x1
Orcapocalypse x1
Red Dragon x1

 

Most excited about: The figure cases and the storm giant (converting him into a Tyrant for my Ogre Kingdoms army).

 

Favorite pass times: long walks on the.. WAGING WAAAAGH..

[GreyLurker]

Just popping in to see if there has been any further word and cutting through the Great Canadian Wall of red tape?

[Laoke]

Just popping in to see if there has been any further word and cutting through the Great Canadian Wall of red tape?

 

Nothing official that I've seen. A few comments by Bryan about a week back around how it was Soon™, but nothing more since.

[ShadowRaven]

A comment today from Bryan as well that sounded...hopeful

[Mike_Dowd]

It did sound hopeful -- and considering that it is roughtly 30 days by freighter from China to the US, I'm just hoping that the Canadian Customs bureaucracy is sorted out before the containers get to TX....

[Doug Sundseth]

Information I saw said that container ships commonly run at about 21 knots, so it's more like two weeks than a month at sea. (Always assuming the information is accurate, of course.)

[Darsc Zacal]

It can also take several days for a ship to actually dock and unload once it reaches port. The docks can sometimes be quite busy and backed up.

[jaryth000]

Winnipeg Checking in again, just to see how things are coming along. ShadowRaven was nice enough to remember me existing :D. Even though I haven't been on for 2 weeks.

My 'mini owning/painting urge' died down a bit after I spent an entire night painting a pair of mini's from essentially start to finish in one sitting. From priming to varnish was less than 48 hours. All in all having only been my 5/6th or so mini's, I'd say I did pretty well.

After that my 'OMG I NEED BONES NOW' urge got killed a bit. Its starting again these days... anticipation and all. I remember at the end of March thinking to myself that I'd be one of the later orders, so I would most likely get it late late April, maybe around May. With the Update about Canada, I was figuring late May early June. Now I'm thinking July/August...

[Heisler]

I would quote what Bryan said this morning, but this is a family friendly forum.

[psyberwolfe1]

That's not just Canada. I've had the same experience with the US government and several state governments.

 

Don't worry, though; they're there to help you.

 

Just ask them.

 

Hey if it weren't for the crazy notion of transparency and everything needing to be done in hexdruplicate we could be more efficient than the Voguns -- thank you very much.

[ShadowRaven]

more efficient, and better poets

[sumbloke]

I checked with my Magic 8-Ball a couple of weeks ago. I know my Bones are coming in July.