52+Joker 2020 Annual Deck by UUSI

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16 signed deck left on Uusi website. (out of 60)

[Mike Ratledge]

The decks suddenly showed up here in Charleston after being in California for a week. I should be able to pick them up from the post office between 9 & 10 tomorrow morning.

I will pack them tomorrow and ship by Monday for those who paid for one. I _think_ that I have one spare, but I won't be certain until I print shipping labels.

Anyone who is waiting for me to respond to personal mail, I was still flat on my back until yesterday, when I refused to lie there for our 44th Anniversary. I will try to answer them all tomorrow and Sunday, but I think that I have 44 messages? Lord...

[Bikefanatic]

I didn't get it, the courts are starting to grow on me a little bit so I might change my mind at the last minute before they sell out.

[Gonzalo]

Anyone who is waiting for me to respond to personal mail, I was still flat on my back until yesterday, when I refused to lie there for our 44th Anniversary. I will try to answer them all tomorrow and Sunday, but I think that I have 44 messages? Lord...

Hi, MIke,

Fisrt, I hope you're doing better.

I might be one of those 44 (or 2, actually, since I sent you 2 PM, one by the beginning of the month and another some time this week). I haven't visited the forum lately and I really haven't got a clue whether you were finally able to get decks for all of us who took you on your kind offer. If the answer is yes, I haven't given you my address yet. Also, I don't know what the final price with shipping costs to the US was. I paypalled you $39.29 for one deck on 10/04; if it's more than that, just let me know, please.

Thank you.

[Mike Ratledge]

Right now there are still 370 "in stock", so I don't foresee it being Sold Out any time soon.

I ended up with a spare (maybe two? - depends on whether or not one person straightens out their payment or I refund the partial)...

In any case, I managed to finish packing and affixing postage to all of them I have shipping addresses for, but I also found that 4 out of the paid orders had no mailing address with the PayPal order / payment, and I just can't trust previous addresses or even worse the one you might have used ages ago to register here, so I sent out messages TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS YOU USED WITH PAYPAL. Also, there is one that I have a foreign address but only paid for domestic / US delivery, so that one also get a note today. This despite the fact that I managed to slip and slightly booger up my lower spine yet again, though not enough to keep me flat on my back like I was for a week or ten days. I didn't look back, but I assume that I failed to make it clear that you needed to put that information in the comments?

Please respond to the email I sent and don't post it here or by PM/DM here either (see more below at the last line).

The rest go out tomorrow morning, both the US and overseas decks. I ended up using a little bit of post office trickery to save a few dollars, since otherwise I was going to end up paying about $1.50 per deck myself: I packed them all in Bubble Wrap envelopes rolled up inserted into Flat Rate boxes inserted into Flat Rate Small Envelopes, which - odd as it sounds - cost $7.75 to mail instead of $8.50 each (or $8.05 for even legal size flat rate envelopes). I learned this trick from Gambler's Warehouse who often mails a full brick inside a single FR envelope and only pays for that minimum rate for unlimited weight Flat Rate Priority Mail. Several of you sent me another $1.50 or $2 when you saw my previous note about the yet again increased prices I didn't notice had changed in the past year - thanks for that!

I have not sent out tracking numbers - yet. I will figure that out tomorrow for those I did manually from my USPS account as opposed to the one or two directly paid for in PayPal, which I assume already sent one? (I'll double-check!)

As dumb as that sounds, using this allows me to ship 10 sets of decks and save about $7 or so, which makes me about break even overall.

The ones going overseas are shipped inside two bubble wrap tyvek sleeves inside a Flat Rate Envelope with $5 declared value so you don't end up paying yet again for customs / taxes before you get to unwrap your deck (and unwrap your deck, and unwrap your deck)... I have never had a problem using this method to get them overseas without damage, but your mileage may vary, as always. Lemme know if otherwise.

Obviously, if I don't have an updated mailing address, your deck is packed, double wrapped and triple wrapped - waiting for the info.

If you want one (or perhaps one of the 5 that is waiting a valid shipping address wants a 2nd deck), let me know as I can easily add a 2nd deck to your order for just $32 which includes the shipping to me from California (I think they are using D&D?) but no additional postage to you - even if overseas. I don't want to have to order more, so please let me know by email to FriendOfUC@gmail.com instead of a PM/DM here, as I still have not been able to catch up my inbox here - sorry! It's been a helluva couple of weeks, folks!

[Bradius]

Mike, is the club deck an extra little money stream for the club? If so, I think this year was great with so many printed and sold. I am sure they will all sell out eventually.

[TheGentlemanWake]

UUSI is on my deck designer hit list... TGW x UUSI would make me very happy.

[sinjin7]

UUSI is on my deck designer hit list... TGW x UUSI would make me very happy.

YES!!!

[Mike Ratledge]

OK, all of them except those with address missing problems went out today in time to be delivered Friday (except overseas, of course).

The 5 problem child ones all go out tomorrow, again - in time for Saturday delivery, with the exception of the one going to Glasgow. That might take a few more days (weeks?), even with Priority Mail International. The one I thought was going overseas but only paid domestic shipping actually goes to a domestic drop-box.

I have 2 spares, actually - not just one, and I am going to start wading through the Private Messages in just a few minutes - sorry for the slack-arse slow response! I bet I will find buyers for those two there!

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Mike, is the club deck an extra little money stream for the club? If so, I think this year was great with so many printed and sold. I am sure they will all sell out eventually.

Sure, thats the intent. I feel certain that they will sell soon enough. The last 7 of those by Mark Stutzman (2016, I think?) are going to be gone soon, so that means 2015 and 2019 are already sold out (Jackson & Lotrek) and 2020 likely will be soon, as well as 2016 as soon as those last 7 decks sell. That only leaves a few of Paul Carpenter's 2017 and Randy Butterfield's 2018 decks available.

[Mike Ratledge]

Good grief! I obviously can sell another brick of those - give me a day to catch up - I am still almost 3 weeks behind Private Messages here.

I got about 1/2-way through those messages, but there are still 17 - I think. Sorry for the delay, I've got a lot going on and not exactly fleet of foot ATM.

Those two decks I mentioned above are already spoken for at this point, but I will figure out what we need to do to put together another order soon.

Somebody P&M'd about the cost for overseas shipping, comparing it to shared shipping for multiple decks. Unfortunately there's nothing I can do about that, as previously described. There's no other way to ship overseas with tracking and delivery confirmation, and I won't do it without. Sure, if five people each order one deck each, the cost is the same (I can ship up to 8 decks for the same price it costs to ship one deck - both domestic and overseas)...

[vasta41]

Thanks, Mike! I received my deck today at the center of a Russian doll-like stack of Priority Mail packaging. I appreciate all you did and I hope you and your family get better soon!

[TheGentlemanWake]

I'd like to review this deck. How do I get my hands on one of these?

[Bradius]

If you are a member of the 52 Plus Joker club, you can order them through the club website.

If you are not a member, PM me and I can get one to you.

[hsbc]

For those collectors interested we have a single hand gilded "52+ Joker" Uusi playing card deck ... Please send a DM here on IG if your interested [SOLD OUT] ... Our 52+Joker Gilded edition will be a total of ten decks. This deck was a one-time printing and design for the playing card club 52+Joker. As I produce more of the gilded versions of this deck and of Pagan Playing cards we will announce their availability here on IG.

[kevork]

Congratulations to the buyer. You know who you are