It seems having issues with the shipping is our yearly tradition, but I didn’t expect politics to come in and mess with the process. That’s exactly what happened this time, beside a few absolutely relevant problems we also encountered along the way.
Let’s start with the good news: the packages containing the t-shirts, long awaited 3D printed dice, and our usual stickers were shipped! Some of you close to Poland might start receiving them next week already.
The bad news? Our Polish National Postal Service decided to not only increase the shipping costs (again) by 50% (this time), but what’s more, all the folks living in United States of America will have to wait for their stuff a bit more. Why? Because Polish Post halted shipping to US indefinitely and blamed it on Trump’s tariffs. I can ship the package around Europe, to Australia, or Mongolia, but not US anymore. Oh, and apparently Colombia as well, but they didn’t even care to tell me why in this particular case.
The single vendor that still ships things to United States from here is FedEx, which costs multiple times more than the Polish Post, about $60-$120 per package, depending on its details. And that’s for the smallest one, with a single t-shirt, via the economy service.
I thought I’m either not going to ship the promised swag (27 packages) at all, or (more likely) go bankrupt. Luckily enough, our very own Ben Allfree stepped in and saved the day. A box full of (already prepared) packages with t-shirts was shipped to him in Nevada, and when Ben receives them, he will then send every single package individually to each of you via the local postal service.
Hopefully you’ll get your swag soon, but I’m seriously considering ending the t-shirt shipments going forward given how time consuming and costly it all became. I know it’s our tradition sice day one in 2012, but it’s really difficult to keep covering all the increasing costs.
Anyway, if you do receive your t-shirt please share a selfie! You can either send it to us directly via email, drop in Slack or Discord, mention the @js13kGames account or use the #js13k hashtag on social media so we can see it and add to our Facebook gallery. Seeing our design all around the world means so much to us, thank you!
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