Box Pass 2023 Signup

[RustiePyles CPG]

Box Pass 2023 Rules

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• You must have joined the forum on or before 4/28/2022.
• You must have at least 200 posts as of today (4/28/2023)
• You must post pictures when you receive the box.
• You must be able to pass the box on in a reasonable amount of time.
• Every recipient is responsible for the outgoing shipping cost to the next recipient.
• You must confirm receipt of the box with myself.
• You must provide tracking information to myself when you ship.
• You must contribute to the box.
• You must reside in the United States
• No PO boxes.

Requirements

• A minimum of 1 year and 200 posts as of today. All other requests will be ignored.
• Provide Shipping address, email, and phone number. Anyone unwilling to submit this will not participate.
• Sufficient funds to ship box to next recipient.

Acceptable items.

• Bulk/Loose pipe tobacco
• Tinned pipe tobacco
• Pipes
• Leather/Plastic Pipe rests.
• Cigars
• Cigar cutters
• Tampers/pipe tools
• Pipe lighters

Prohibited Items

• Glass
• Liquids
• Lighter fuel
• Food
• No Czech tools or pipe nails
• No golf tees
• Books

A container and Boveda pack will be included for cigars please leave them in the box. Mylar bags will be included please use them for bulk/loose tobacco and mark the bag with a contents label.



To sign up, post here so everyone can see who’s participating send me your info via PM.






Stealing the box will result in forum membership termination and your phone number and email address will be given to every political campaign, PAC, life insurance salesman, and action cause I can find.

I cannot promise that @ashdigger will not be sent to your house to play Yoko Ono records at a very high volume until you produce the box.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

I'm in!

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

PM'd my Highly personal data

 

[ashdigger]

I’ll know who you are, I’ll know what you want. If you are looking to keep the Box, that’s a mistake. I have a very specific set of skills, and those skills have been honed over a long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you send the Box forward, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you. I will not persue you. But if you don’t, I will show up unannounced and expose you to Yoko.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Ha ha, motivation to get the box back in the mail... the moment you receive it, a serial killer is slowly sent to kill you, and the only way to have the killer called off, is to get the box back into the mail. Meanwhile, you get to sample many different kinds of delicious tobaccos.
That at least sort of defines the "reasonable amount of time" deadline.

 

[sablebrush52]

I'm in! Traditionally a recipient would have a two week period to explore the box before sending it on to the next person on the list. That would help keep wait times for those in line to a few months on average. "Reasonable amount of time" is a tad vague. Some could interpret that as "forever" being a reasonable amount of time and still be within the rules.

 

[FLDRD]

I'm in and thank you.
I think passing it on in just a couple days is not difficult.

 

[sablebrush52]

Ha ha, motivation to get the box back in the mail... the moment you receive it, a serial killer is slowly sent to kill you, and the only way to have the killer called off, is to get the box back into the mail. Meanwhile, you get to sample many different kinds of delicious tobaccos.
That at least sort of defines the "reasonable amount of time" deadline.

We have a few coders in out midst. Maybe one of these could create an assassin tracking app that gently encourages the current box holder to send it on.

 

[SBC]

Stealing the box will result in forum membership termination and your phone number and email address will be given to every political campaign, PAC, life insurance salesman, and action cause I can find.

I cannot promise that @ashdigger will not be sent to your house to play Yoko Ono records at a very high volume until you produce the box.

YES.

 

[SBC]

I'm in. About to PM my info.

 

[blackpowderpiper]

I’ll know who you are, I’ll know what you want. If you are looking to keep the Box, that’s a mistake. I have a very specific set of skills, and those skills have been honed over a long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you send the Box forward, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you. I will not persue you. But if you don’t, I will show up unannounced and expose you to Yoko.

Perhaps you could also summon PumpkinHead to finish off anyone not passing the box on in time.

 

[woodsroad]

Put an Air Tag in it and make the data public.
Oh...I'm in.

May I suggest using Google Forms for signup? Like I did for Secret Santa? That will make your job SO much easier.

 

[bobpnm]

Yes! I’m in!

 

[brooklynpiper]

I’m sending you my info! I’m in!

It should be obvious that if the box goes missing it is the obligation of the next geographically closest member to drive to the box’s last known location

 

[woodsroad]

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[AroEnglish]

I’ve never done anything like this but am interested. For those that have participated, how does one balance the giving and taking? I'm sure many of us want to be generous but may not have things that are wildly desirable. Is it pretty much give what you can and take what want but don't be a dick about it?

 

[ThermionicScott]

So cool to see box passes still happening! I participated in my first one in 2004, when I was still relatively new to pipe smoking. What a fun way to try a bunch of unfamiliar blends; I smoke some of those blends to this day, others I will never have to try again. Since I'm still relatively new here, I'm not technically eligible, but that's fine this time around. I'll be happy to follow this thread.

BTW, I'm a member of a bicycle discussion forum that does the same thing, but with old bike parts and tools. That flat-rate box can get pretty heavy along the way!

 

[Scottmi]

I can't play this time, not here long enough (i understand). I've heard rumors there is an illicit reddit subculture that trades "Death by Yoko" videos. Total sickos, imho.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I’ve never done anything like this but am interested. For those that have participated, how does one balance the giving and taking? I'm sure many of us want to be generous but may not have things that are wildly desirable. Is it pretty much give what you can and take what want but don't be a dick about it?

I don't want to speak for the rule-makers (and will happily accept correction), but when I did box passes in the past, the general idea was that you would try a bit of whatever you wanted, but not take the remainder of anything unless it was almost gone, or if you could replace it with something equally cool.

 

[AJL67]

Ha ha, motivation to get the box back in the mail... the moment you receive it, a serial killer is slowly sent to kill you, and the only way to have the killer called off, is to get the box back into the mail. Meanwhile, you get to sample many different kinds of delicious tobaccos.
That at least sort of defines the "reasonable amount of time" deadline.

The 10th Victim would work nicely