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Any old issue with the classic post box that I missed someplace?

EvilPixieWorks

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So... just a couple weeks ago we get the 2 new post boxes via the UO-Store.

I had (and still have) a cash of the classic post boxes and have been selling them 1 by 1 for the last couple months. No reported issues. At the same time, I have a post box set up at the building WITH that very vendor selling them. Not a single time since Sept 2018 has anyone dropped anything in that box... and no messages on the message boards in any of the 6 town buildings telling me of any issue not being able to drop items off. OR any messages via ICQ or here. I assumed nothing was wrong.

So, I gave a returning play a job that pays really well for little bursts of time invested. She works odd ours to me, so its sometimes hard to be on at the same time. With the new wall safe, I figured the only way to beat the whole stupid removal of checks was for her to drop the items in the post box with a bill... and I'd go around to her house and drop some funds in her safe. It sounded like a good THEORY at the time! BUT... now we hit a wall where she cant seam to drop anything in to the post box thats been sitting in place for over 10 years (or whenever these things originally spawned).

I had a friend, who's dropped things in the same post box many times over the years, come around and drop something in the box to test if it was working. She is not friended. The box is secured, friends and up. Sure enough, she dropped an item in without issue. I go to remove it... it has her name on it, just like any other time anyone drops something in a post box. I drop the item on the ground... it keeps her name. Same origional friend comes around... can see the item on the ground WITH the name... and yet can still not put anything in the post box.

BOTH friends are NOT friended to the house! 1 has always been able to drop items in the box, still can. 1 is new and can not. I dont know what's going wrong here. Any clue, anyone?
 

Laura_Gold

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I tried to drop something into someone's mailbox.
I couldn't do it.
The house is "private." I assumed that was the problem.
 

Larisa

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Yeah make sure that this new player isn't on an EJ account...they are VERY restricted as far as public housing and containers within those houses.

That's the only thing I can think of that would be causing your issue.

From what you posted though...you said you were planning on dropping funds into her wall safe? Which means she has a house...yes? It's HER house? If it's her house then the EJ account thing isn't an issue.

Try taking the post box down and replacing it...all those normal, mundane things we try when things don't work in our world lol.
 

Victim of Siege

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Not seeing any issue with these. they are working right on the shards i play on, just checked.
 

EvilPixieWorks

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Its secured... I believe.

Again, nothing has changed in many years... and when it was working properly to today.

The BIG question I have for my friend is if she is playing with the Enhanced system. As I play classic... I dont run in to new issues.

I mean... (insert total fake shocked sound here)… DO YOU MEAN to tell me they would allow 2 new real cash post boxes with an old bug still at play? lol Why do I have zero problem believing the staff would allow bugs to last for years and years and sell more bug-ridden goods for cash? :)
 

kelmo

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I dunno. I have never had any issues with mailboxes.
 

EvilPixieWorks

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Strongly suspect user error here
The issue was between the chair and keyboard. :)

I think it was a "logical"... however understandable oversite on my friend's behalf. She was trying to open the post box to place the package inside vs. just simply dropping the package ON the post box. I've been using these things for so many years, even within the last few months, it never dawned on me it would be such a simple mistake. At least we can learn something from an error so simple. ;)
 
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