Puerh Travelling Tea Box - Round 3 Finished

Update 9/13/15:Good news bad news:

White2Tea and Essence of Tea have both offered samples for the box. This is really exciting, but the down-side is that we need to wait another week or two until I get the packages from Asia. I plan to close the box for sign-ups. We have 12 participants, including me, which seems like a good number. The list in order is given below. I expect to start the box in 1-2 weeks. If your place on the schedule conflicts with your schedule, let me know and I’ll try to make an adjustment.

Haveteawilltravel NY
Grill NY
AllanK NY (Moved from lower on list)
Liquid Proust OH
Yssah CA
Awkward Soul / Oolong Owl CA
Tperez FL
Curlygc NC
kieblera5 VA
Rich NY
Dr Jim MA

The rules have changed a bit. Please read them.
1. Take as much of each tea as you want. EXCEPT: there is a limit of 5 grams of any of the Essence of Tea or White2Tea teas for each person. I want to ensure everyone gets to try the samples from those vendors.
2. Replace what you take in equal quantities by weight. Please try to add where you bought the tea. All Menghai Dayi may have been created equal, but storage matters. Don’t put more than about 1 oz of any one tea in the box. You don’t need a lot of variety; we get that by having a lot of people on the list. Adding only one or 2 teas is OK as long as the weight is the same. Try to maintain the quality level as well.
3. Please post your additions plus any teas that you finished off to this topic, so others can track the contents.
4. Only puerh tea, and no flavored teas (No exceptions: no one wanted the flavored teas in previous cycles so I removed them from the box).
5. Try to send the box on to the next person within a week to ten days.
6. Try to wrap the teas well. There’s been a lot of discussion about packing for TTBs elsewhere on Steepster, and the consensus is that thin baggies don’t seal well enough. Heavier gauge ziplock seems okay but the consensus is that foil is best. I have added a second layer of packaging to separate shou from sheng plus small packages for smokey sheng.
7. When you receive the box: PM the next person on the list to ensure they are ready. You can get their address in advance, but please don’t skip this step. Boxes have gone missing due to summer vacation, moves, etc.
8. Mail via 2nd-day mail and get a tracking number. In general, a single-rate box is NOT the best option. Please replace the box if it’s getting beaten up.
9. When you mail the box, PM me and the person you are sending it to with the tracking number. Also post to the thread the fact that the box has been mailed, along with a list of what you’ve added and what you tried. Mention if you took the last sample.
10. I hope you will write reviews. Reviews are REQUIRED for the Essence of Tea and White 2 Tea samples. Please be good about the reviews. They are a pay-back for vendors who have been kind enough to donate tea for the box.

Sorry for all the small print. I will post again when I send out the box.
Dr. Jim

Previous round: http://steepster.com/discuss/11013-sheng-and-shou-ttb-round-2-finished