Way back in 2001, we shipped out thousands of Macross Box Sets, and documented the chaos. It became known as...


“The Hell of Shipping Box Sets”



December 26th, 2001

Now you know why they call it Boxing Day. Can you count how many Box Sets are ready to go out the door? We ended up calling this the “Great Wall of Macross”


December 21st, 2001

Herein we document our decent into Shipping Hell!

Suzie charges credit cards. Green is good. Red is bad. Once we have the money, about 50 orders at a time are made into a batch and printed out. If they are going US Mail, we print some special mailing labels too.
Empty boxes, all waiting to be filled. 'Hearken! I come bearing gifts,' sayeth a delivery man!
3 sets to a box. Notice the holographic animation effect. We also get a year's worth of bubblepack for free! We trained for months to master the oh-so-delicate 'insertion technique' without fumbling.
'If you fill up all these boxes, James, I'll give you a dollar...' Our butts may be big now, but they won't be after this job is done!
Young Jedi Tapegun Master Alex at work. Robert demonstrates his famous hand technique.
The staff reacts to Natsumi's innocent inquiry -- 'You've been at this for over 10 minutes, why isn't it all done?' James Lau gets the first box set. If he tries to sell it on eBay he's a dead man. James, we know where you live... and now, so does everyone else!
Ship, my little droogies! Ship! Cry Havok, and let loose the Boxsets of War! The second shipment arrives. Who is this mysterious figure?
Why, that tushie looks familiar... He is a man of action...
...as he demonstrates his Air Freight Delivery Technique. My goodness, it was Shin, actually doing physical labor!
Hmmm... If I throw a box set exactly right, all those boxes will come down on my brother's head... On second thought, never argue with a man with a knife.
The UPS guy has no inkling of what awaits him... ...and the guy behind us at the Post Office is going to be PISSED!


December 21st, 2001

The first batch of Box Sets are in, and we're madly shipping them out. James Lau is the lucky recipient of the first box set. We'll have pictures up on this page as soon as we find the darn cable to connect the camera to the Mac.

December 20th, 2001

The trucking company that swore on a stack of bibles that we'd get 1800 box sets on Wednesday, then backed off and said it would be Thursday, is now promising to sacrifice their firstborn male children if they aren't here by 10AM on Friday.

Meanwhile, the other trucking company that's delivering a mere 200 box sets (shipped 2 days after the 1800 box sets) just called to say that they would indeed deliver them today, as promised...

...at 11PM tonight.

We have a picture expressing the staff's feelings regarding this, but my mother won't let me post it, and their mothers would kill me if I did.

The Hell of Shipping Box Sets continues!

December 18th, 2001

The trucking company has confirmed that the first 2000 Macross box sets will be arriving Thursday morning. In preparation, we've preassembled a modest number of shipping boxes.


Our sacrifice knows no bounds...


We have even stooped to using child labor in order to speed your box sets to you.