Cool! I'm excited about this. :)

Also please keep in mind when I say late tonight I basically mean the middle of the night lol

Addresses are out!!!!!!! Please let me know if you didn't get a copy, or if there are any mistakes to your name or address or preferences and I will take care of it.

I didn't set a deadline for sending out teas, probably should have in retrospect, but please by kind to the other participants and send your teas out in a timely manner. Thanks!

PS: Wh1ms1n, your name was not found in the database and wouldn;t send you a message but the name Wh1ms1 was.

CCB, thank you for setting this tea exchange up and corralling the address and such. It's appreciated! :)

You're welcome!!! I'm really excited!!! I decided to tailor my teas to what I think each person might enjoy, we'll see how close I come.

Hmm...very interesting!

I chose a different path and decided to send everyone the same tea as a means of testing the likeability of that particular tea.

I am very excited too, and am already looking forward to the next one! Mine goes in the mail today, just waiting on the post office to open so I can buy more stamps. :)

Thanks so much, CCB! I am awaiting bags to fill loose leaf tea into for each participant. I will definitely mail immediately once they arrive. I had one further questions for everyone. Does anyone have nut allergies? I ask because one of mine has almonds.

Just a quick heads up...I just returned from the post office. Seems the lone tea bag in a note card makes the envelope just thick enough that it doesn't slide through the mass mail sorter with enough ease to satisfy the USPS regulations. So instead of the usual .49 stamp for US destinations, it cost .70, and where it is normally $1.15 for International/Canadian destinations, it was $1.36. You will also have to take them to the post office and have them stamped as Non-Machinable.

Thanks that's helpful to know.

Thanks for letting us know, Jesse. Sorry if I led you all astray, I could've sworn I sent a teabag with a stamp once.

I do not feel you led us astray by any means, I hope I didn't give that implication. Weight wise it was well under, at only .6 of an ounce so I felt certain I could send it via first class letter. The thickness was the problem. He actually had a cardboard with a slot cut out to see if it would go through smoothly, which it did in my opinion, but he said it had to go thru smoothly and quickly or it would bunch up the letters following behind at something like 100 per second. :readfineprint: Perhaps it's because my teabags are individually sealed and have more air? Who knows for sure, perhaps my PO is just odd! ;)

At any rate, I just wanted to give ya'll the heads up because he said if it doesn't get stamped with the Non-Machinable stamp it will end up going to nowhere land. :|

P.S. The post office sells the .70 stamps. Who knew?!

I sent my tea out today. My postage expense was $31.30.

Holy shit!!!!

I never meant this to be an expensive project. :/

Mine are packaged and ready to go- just have to get to the post office! :)

Holy cow! Why so much? My postage was just under $10.

I know that. No worries.

I asked the clerk why it was cheaper in Florida, and she told me to go there and send my cards. Ha!