The FPN Post Office

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

I'm finally settling back home in Italy. Let's get this.

 

Letters IN from @DJW1066 (from Feb I think)

IN from @Parker Quink Turquoise, from Feb also

IN from @abstract49 from Jan?? REally? I'm so sorry!

IN from @dompred, from Feb also

IN from @Centurion, from MArch

IN from @Ambien from April, lovely masking tape by the way

and IN from @Kari Homan Shannon from June, gorgeous seal.

 

I'll get through them all in a timely manner, I swear,  COVID be damned!

[Enkida]

Postcard in from @Mark from Yorkshire!  I actually have a letter prepared to mail to you as well, but it's not landing in the mailbox until tomorrow.

And a letter in from @frolic838!

As for TWSBI Ecos cracking - apparently a common problem according to reddit.  My spouse and I both like to collect the colors because they're fun to look at and generally don't dry out when inked up.  But after talking with Philip of TWSBI about how to switch nibs, I took a loupe to the section to attempt it myself and instead found a crack.  So I took the loupe to our entire collection and found 14 cracks!  I have to say the CS from TWSBI to replace the barrels was spot on and rapid, though that may be because we own 34 pens and 14 (maybe even 15) of them were cracked, so you could say we're rather "important" (read: spendy) customers?  I did appreciate that.  But I also called my sister after to tell her, and she checked her Eco, and *that* was cracked too, so obviously they have build problems with their acrylics still, which means I'll likely think twice before collecting more of them.  Statistically speaking, 15 or 16 out of 35 pens cracking is a significant quality control failure.  It's a shame, because otherwise they're fantastically designed pens.  Just not built to last...

[Kari Homan Shannon]

9 hours ago, Enkida said:

As for TWSBI Ecos cracking -

 

Eep.... I've got 18 of them, but haven't checked for cracks yet.  How old are your pens, and do they seem to just be on the colored versions or do you have cracks on any clear ones you own as well? 

 

Did Twsbi send you replacement housings?  And did you have to pay for them / shipping for them? 

 

 

[Kari Homan Shannon]

Letter in from

@KCat

 

Letters out to:

@tringle

@jburchett

@Ambien

[amberleadavis]

On 6/23/2022 at 3:22 AM, Recursion said:

Letter in from @amberleadavis

thank you 👍 I’ll write back as soon as I can, I heb lots to tell you

 

 

I'm so excited!

 

 

[amberleadavis]

14 hours ago, Kari Homan Shannon said:

Letter in from

@KCat

 

Letters out to:

@tringle

@jburchett

@Ambien

And a response back to you that has taken nearly a month to write. Sorry for the delay.

[Enkida]

On 7/9/2022 at 8:58 AM, Kari Homan Shannon said:

Eep.... I've got 18 of them, but haven't checked for cracks yet.  How old are your pens, and do they seem to just be on the colored versions or do you have cracks on any clear ones you own as well? 

 

Did Twsbi send you replacement housings?  And did you have to pay for them / shipping for them? 

 

 

Between my husband and I we have a good spread, as we like collecting the different colors.  Some of them are fairly old, over five years, and some of them are as recent as last year (though the cracks are smaller in size).  As for replacement housings, we had to pay for shipping (10 USD, which is a nothingburger when you're getting bodies, but if I had only one cracked pen I'd be unhappy if I had to pay that much for shipping), but nothing for the materials themselves.  Note we will have to disassemble and reassemble the pens ourselves, but these are TWSBIs, I'm sure there's a million and a half youtube videos on how to do that.

[checkrail]

Letter IN from @sangrisano.

[Kari Homan Shannon]

Letter out to @InkStainedFingers

[Lamy4life]

Sorry new to this
Out to @miwishi63

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Letters OUT  to @abstract49 and @Parker Quink Turquoise. 

 

Afternoon update, letter OUT  to @DJW1066!

[BorisoftheStars]

Letters in from

@Kari Homan Shannon

Letters Out to

@DanHD

[PathfinderAFW]

Letter out to 

 

@frolic838

@Rebbe

 

I’ll get more sent when I stumble my way into the post office and get more stamps

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Letters OUT to @dompred and @Centurion : )

[abstract49]

On 7/11/2022 at 3:54 AM, RoyalBlueNotebooks said:

Letters OUT  to @abstract49 and @Parker Quink Turquoise. 

 

Afternoon update, letter OUT  to @DJW1066!

I look forward to it!  Are you back in Italy permanently, or just a very overdue family visit?

[Mark from Yorkshire]

Letter in from @Enkida. 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

19 hours ago, abstract49 said:

I look forward to it!  Are you back in Italy permanently, or just a very overdue family visit?

Yes please look forward to it, the stamp is lovely if I may say so : )

And I'm back permanently.

[frolic838]

Letter out to @Kari Homan Shannon (finally).  

[Kari Homan Shannon]

Letters in from

@Goingbuddha

Sugar turtle

@Ken M

@tringle

[Kari Homan Shannon]

Y@Goingbuddha

Your letter was post marked 6/13 and I received it today 7/15.  That's crazy.  Wish I knew where all it's been!