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Quote from the Sending dialog : Use mailboxes with caution and inexpensive items until you rely on the spirits. They are still learning, and take no responsibility for lost items.
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Description
You can send mail to other players in the game via spirit containers which have been enchanted by priests/priestesses of Fo, Nahjo or Libila with the spells courier or dark messenger.
Mailboxes do receive damage and can be destroyed by decay, causing the cast on it to disappear.
Types of spirit containers
There is no difference in operation between the various spirit containers.
- Spirit house - fine carpentry
- Spirit mansion - fine carpentry
- Spirit cottage - masonry
- Spirit castle - masonry
Sending process
To send the mail, drop the item(s) into the spirit container, then right-click the container, and select Send. There are two dialogs that you will to control how the items are sent. The first allows you to specify the name of the recipient, and what items should be send using C.O.D. (cash on delivery). It also allows to skip the second dialog. The second dialog allows you to see how much the delivery charge will be, and to specify the C.O.D. amount you will charge the recipient if applicable.
You cannot send an item to a member of an enemy kingdom on Chaos. You get the message: "You may not trade with the enemy."
NOTICE: Items will be mailed to the server the recipient is currently present on. It can only be retrieved from that server
Receiving process
When you login, you will receive a message if you have any mail. You sense imps speaking your name and saying you have 1 mail waiting to be picked up.
To receive or check for mail, right-click any spirit container and select Check. If an item is sent as Cash On Delivery you need to have the money in your bank to cover the delivery charge before you can receive the items.
You also have the option to return the items to the sender.
Non-retrieved items
If the recipient does not pick up their mail within two weeks, they are automatically returned-to-sender.
If the original sender does not pick up the returned items within two weeks, they are destroyed.
If the recipient uses return-to-sender and the original sender does not pick up the items within two weeks, they are destroyed.
There is no way to extract items from the mail system if you are not the recipient !
If you are sending something valuable, ensure that the recipient is available to pick it up before you send it. If you return an item to the sender, it would be good manners to contact them to ensure they retrieve it before the two week deadline.
Postage charges
The postage is 1(was 10) copper per item if the receiver is on the same server, or 1 (was 20) copper per item if on another server. Cross-server mailing is currently limited to within the Freedom Isles (Independence, Deliverance, Exodus, Celebration, and Chaos).
The postage fee for an inscribed papyrus sheet is now only 1 iron (formerly 40), even for cross-server deliveries.
The postage fee is taken from the bank account of the sender as the items are sent, unless they are C.O.D., in which case it is taken from the recipient when received.
Items sent in containers still incur fees. Example : A backpack with 3 wood scraps in it would cost you 4 x 1 copper (1x backpack, 3x wood scrap) to send due to being counted as 4 separate items. Also, combining items (e.g. lumps) does not decrease the mailing cost, so a 4kg lump costs the same as 4x 1kg lumps.
Delivery times
Any items sent via mailbox have a predetermined time for mailing. The strength of the enchant affects this (and appears to be 101 minus the cast strength in minutes).
- 31 - A bit more than one hour (estimate 70 minutes)
- 48 - A bit less than one hour (estimate 55 minutes)
- 63 - Less than one hours (estimate 35 to 40 minutes)
- 78 - Less than 30 minutes (estimate 25 minutes)
- 90 - Less than ten minutes
- 99 - Less than ten minutes (2 minutes)
Can be sent
- Backpack (and everything that can fit in one)
- Cauldron (and everything that can fit in one)
- Small barrel (and everything that can fit in one)
- Armor pieces (including Barding)
- Birdcage
- Bow
- Candelabra
- Carving knife
- Chisel
- Dredge
- Explorer tent
- File
- Hammer
- Hatchet
- Horse shoes
- Huge axe
- Knives
- Lantern
- Large anvil
- Large maul
- Longsword
- Mallet
- Meditation rugs
- Metal lump (multiple sent in container, or all as a combined lump postage is still by kilo)
- Needle
- Pelt
- Pickaxe
- Practice doll
- Rake
- Rock shards
- Saddle
- Saw
- Scythe
- Shields (all of them are mailable)
- Short bow
- Short sword
- Shovel
- Sickle
- Small anvil
- Small axe
- Spindle
- Steel and flint
- Triangular sail (and all smaller than it, like square piece of cloth)
- Trowel
- Two-handed sword
- Whetstone
