Short Shipping Update
over 4 years ago – Wed, May 06, 2020 at 12:15:25 AM

Hi everyone, 

We're due for another update and just wanted to let everyone know the current status of fulfillment.

UK/EU

As of today, it looks like our two containers have been released in the UK and should shortly be moving onto its next step where it will be picked up by the forwarder and relabelled with local courier tracking. We've been told that this process is usually a 2-4 business day process to unload the container and process it at the warehouse but please bear in mind that there could be potential delays, especially since we received several hundred requests for address changes. Thank you all for filling out the address change form in a timely manner. They've already been forwarded to the appropriate people responsible to handle these changes and we're just waiting to confirm that they have been adjusted. We hope that we may see some deliveries as early as next week or the week of the 18th and are keeping our finger on the pulse every step of the way to make sure this goes as quickly and as smoothly as possible.

The orders meant to be on a third container, that we decided to ship by air in the last update, had a small handful already ship in a way that was not customs friendly. We apologize for this inconvenience. If you have received a customs charge and you are located in either the UK or EU, please email us at [email protected] with the receipt. 

The rest of these air shipments (roughly 140 orders), to put it bluntly, was not being processed in a timely enough manner by Floship, so an official decision was made to move all of our inventory from their facility and forward them to different shipping companies to handle shipment locally in each region. No further shipments will be coming from Floship. 

Since our last update, we anticipated we needed inventory in Europe as soon as possible as a contingency plan, and have already arranged a small air freighted number of products to take care of these pending 140 orders. This inventory should be arriving at a European fulfiller based in Germany by the end of this week, or by early next week if there's any delay. We will ship these orders as soon as they are received and processed and hopefully have these shipped in a week or two's time under an ideal situation. With this small inventory locally in Europe as well, we're also in a position to re-ship any necessary packages if there are any errors, lost packages, missing items, etc. So we hope that there's some comfort in knowing that we have a contingency plan in place for our UK/EU backers. 

Australia

There's been confusion about tracking numbers being incorrect and we apologize for that. Our upload was based on a tracking export we received and there's definitely a discrepancy in what got uploaded and what we now see when we look at individual orders in the Floship dashboard. If you require any insight on your package, please email us at [email protected]. Based on some of our backer comments, some tracking numbers that have been pending with Aus Post the last couple of weeks should start seeing scans soon, if not already.

Asia, New Zealand, Non-EU Countries, Rest of World

Fulfillment is complete. If your package or tracking is still missing, please email us at [email protected]. Current turnaround time for email replies is 3-5 business days. 

US/Canada

Fulfillment is complete. If you have not received your package or tracking yet, please email us at [email protected]. Current turnaround time for email replies is 3-5 business days.

Retailers

If you are a retailer, please contact [email protected] for any questions about your order.

Support, Missing/Damaged Items, and Other Questions

Please do not message us on Kickstarter. If any of your items are missing or damaged, or if you require any other assistance, please email us at [email protected]. Turnaround time for email responses is 3-5 business days. We expect a large influx of messages after every update, so please be patient as we try to help you as soon as we can.

Thank you!

Leder Games

Shipping Update #7
over 4 years ago – Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 11:16:52 PM

Hi everyone,

We just wanted to provide a new update on the current shipping situation. Once again, thanks to everyone for your patience during this time. We know that you're all excited to finally have your games in your hands and hope you're safe and healthy at home.

Address Changes (UK and EU only)

If you are a UK or EU backer, we can very likely update your shipping address.

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If you need to update your shipping address, please fill out our Google Form here

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This form will be open until April 24th so the forwarder has enough time to make these adjustments when they relabel our packages with their local tracking labels.

Please do not email address change requests unless necessary—this form is the fastest and easiest way to organize your requests.

We'll let everyone know in a Kickstarter update whether these address changes were successful or not. If all else fails, we're happy to re-ship your order if necessary. We didn't mean to make it sound like you were out of luck during our last update—we will do whatever it takes to ensure you receive your packages.

Unfortunately, this form is only for UK and EU backers. If you are outside of these regions, please email us at [email protected] to review your options.

UK and EU (Big Update)

This honestly contains a mix of good news and some bad news. Besides the good news about the address changes above, the other good news is that after a lot of detective work and asking Floship to provide this information, we have received the bill of lading and container numbers for our shipment on the water. If you'd like to track this, our container numbers are GESU6239234 and MEDU4182293, and the bill of lading number is HKGSE2000355.

The third container has not yet left the shipping facility, so we have decided to air-ship these packages, since it is currently more difficult to book ocean passage, which is delaying the shipment further. We are still figuring out the details on how these will be tracked, but we're working hard to get your orders to you as quickly as possible.

Now, here is the bad news. When you look up our container numbers, our boat arrival date in the UK is April 29th and not earlier like we were led to believe. We have attached a screenshot of the tracking history below for your reference. 

You can track the vessel live at www.marinetraffic.com. After our packages reach the warehouse in the UK, they will be processed and then picked up by their local couriers. Once this process is complete, we will receive a new tracking report, which we will upload to your Backerkit accounts so that you can track your orders.

With the container arriving at port near the end of April, packages will be delivered perhaps as early as mid-May but going into June, depending on its destination. We are sorry again for this delay. If you need to change your address, please check the section above on how to request this change.

The quality of communication coming from our shipping partner leaves a lot to be desired, and we've been given many erroneous and presumptuous timelines that we shared with you because it's all the information we had from our account manager. It took us over a month to obtain the tracking information, and now that we've seen the shipping status, we absolutely share your frustration at the situation. We're embarrassed, outraged, and frankly a bit exhausted from trying to manage this partner, but we do apologize again to all of our backers who have not received their pledges yet.

Our account manager, a Floship co-founder, recently sent us an apology for a number of things that have gone wrong. But their apology doesn't help you, our backers and supporters, who have chosen to support us, and we understand that. The best we can do as a company is continue monitoring the situation and work hard to prevent any further delays.

Australia

The boat has reached the port! We have received new tracking numbers and the packages are being processed by Australia Post now. As some of you may have noticed in the comments section, some backers are starting to receive their pledges in Australia. For clarification, packages were handed to a forwarder, but we are not sure whether this company is Aetherworks or not, since this shipping process was not detailed to us in this way.

We have uploaded a number of tracking numbers to Backerkit accounts, but unfortunately not all were part of the report we received, so we're putting together a complete tracking report for our Australian backers manually and are uploading tracking numbers to Backerkit every day. We expect to upload all of your tracking numbers by early next week.

There's a small handful of orders to Australia that are still at Floship's facility, but we are working to get these air-shipped so you will receive your package as soon as possible. We hope these will process and ship over the next couple of weeks.

Asia, New Zealand, and Rest of World

We still have our incomplete tracking report that we are currently working through. As per our last update, we ask that you give us until April 20th to investigate and assign any tracking numbers to your Backerkit accounts. If you do not receive any tracking notice by the 20th or so, please email us at [email protected] so we can look into it for you.

Canada and US

Fulfillment is done in Canada and the US, and late surveys that were submitted past October 2019 are still being manually processed. We hope to have all late pledges completed by the end of next week. If you are still missing your order and have not received a tracking email by the end of next week, please email us at [email protected]

Retailers

If you are a retailer, please contact [email protected] for any questions about your order.

Support, Missing/Damaged Items, and Other Questions

Please do not message us on Kickstarter. If any of your items are missing or damaged, or if you require any other assistance, please email us at [email protected]. We've caught up on all of our backlogged messages and are back to processing responses within a few days. We expect a large influx of messages after every update, so please be patient as we try to help you as soon as we can, as we're sure that some of you may have a lot of questions after this post.

Thank you all for reading and stay safe out there,

Leder Games

Quick Shipping Update
over 4 years ago – Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 07:08:42 PM

Hi everyone,

Hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during this time. We're due to provide a new update on shipping for you all! This update is based on the current information we have—we're currently lacking a lot of solid confirmation and can still only provide estimates. Once we do have confirmation, we will give a more detailed update. For now, we will work to update you every 2-3 weeks. Of course, we will give updates earlier if we have new information that is substantial and confirmed.

For our international backers, please note that our shipping partner, Floship, is also affected by a shortage of staff during this time. Their responses to our communications are therefore slow and take several days for a reply at times, and we're trying to get more detailed information and get confirmation on their estimates. Though we've done our due diligence and have contacted them as frequently as possible for updates, it has been difficult to procure anything solid and we can only share what has been relayed to us so far.

UK and EU

According to Floship, the boat is set to arrive at the UK port this week. For the past month we've been pushing Floship for tracking details for the containers, or at least the name of the boat, but they haven’t given us this information yet. They estimate we'll receive a tracking report for these orders during the week of April 13th.

Once the boat reaches the port in the UK, the packages will be unloaded and moved to a warehouse, where they will be relabelled with local courier tracking based on their destination, then picked up by the relevant courier companies to carry on the delivery until it reaches your address. When we have your local tracking numbers, we'll upload them to your Backerkit accounts. If all goes well, deliveries could start as early as the week of the 20th, but realistically the last of these deliveries could go on into May.

A third container is still pending to leave Floship's facility in Hong Kong. They are currently waiting to get the earliest container pick-up date and will let us know once that has happened. But according to them, the ocean freight employees are also extremely short-staffed as well due to a mandatory quarantine of two weeks after travel, so it has been difficult to get this last container booked. This third container will carry 200 to 300 orders that could not be loaded onto the first two containers set for the UK and EU.

Australia

The boat was estimated to arrive on April 6th, but we have not received confirmation yet. We've been told that it will take roughly two or three days to take the container at the port to the warehouse, and another day or two to relabel packages with Australia Post tracking numbers and get them picked up. With this timeline in mind, packages may be picked up by Australia Post during the week of April 13th, and deliveries may begin as early as the week of the 20th. Once the local tracking numbers are assigned and we receive them, we will upload these details to your Backerkit accounts.

Asia, New Zealand, Non-EU Countries, Rest of World

Most of the orders for these regions were shipped by air. We received a small tracking report for these, and we uploaded these tracking numbers to Backerkit. However, there are still a few orders at Floship's facility in Hong Kong. We have been pushing for an update on when these orders will leave their facility and are waiting for an estimated date.

Additionally, we're waiting to receive a more complete report on the orders that have no tracking information yet. Based on the number of emails we received since our last update, it is clear that the initial tracking report we received was extremely incomplete. If you do not have any tracking information yet, we ask you to wait until April 20th before sending an email about your tracking information. This will give us a chance to obtain and upload a fuller tracking report, allowing us to update you properly.

US and Canada

Both US and Canada are complete. Any late surveys submitted past the lock date will be processed this week and next week. If you still have not received your package, please email us at [email protected]. The turn-around time for replies is still about a week, so please be patient and we'll help you as soon as we can.

Address Changes

Unfortunately, address changes are not possible at this time. However, once you have your tracking number, you might be able to contact your courier company to reroute the package to your current address.

Pins

Some of you might have gotten a tracking number from Shipstation on a packet incoming to you containing your Root pins. These were originally supposed to be packed with your orders at Floship's facility, but they had lost our parcel of pins we sent them for fulfillment. To prevent any further delay of your order, we shipped them from the US instead, and these packages contain only your pins if you ordered them.

Retailers

If you are a retailer, please contact [email protected] for any inquiries.

Support, Damage, Missing Items, etc.

Our email queue is still currently a bit overwhelmed, but we've caught up on a lot of inquiries. Currently we are responding to new emails within roughly a week, but we hope to be fully caught up by the end of next week. For any questions about your order, please email us at [email protected]. Thanks so much for your patience during this time. We're doing our best to help you as quickly and informatively as we can.

Thanks!

Leder Games

Shipping Update #6
over 4 years ago – Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 02:59:27 AM

Hi all,

Here is our shipping update with the most up-to-date information that we have on the current status of shipping for all of our regions:

COVID-19 and Delays

FloShip is our fulfillment company used for all orders outside of the US and Canada and they have provided us an official statement on the impact of COVID-19 on their operations and logistics that have led to the fulfillment delays on our project. 

We once again apologize to all of our backers for the delays and thank you for your patience. We're doing what we can to deliver your orders to you as soon as possible.

Customs and Duties

Just a friendly reminder that as per our Kickstarter fulfillment promise on the campaign page, shipping to Australia, US, Canada and EU countries are customs and duty-free. This does not cover countries outside of these regions and are subject to these fees. 

If you receive a bill and you are located in one of these regions or you believe you have been billed for something that is not customs or duties related, please save the invoice or receipt and email us at [email protected] so we can look into it for you. Investigating these will take some time and follow up with our shipping partner so it may take some time before we can reach a conclusion for you.

New Updates?

It is sometimes difficult to get confirmation on some of the information we provide during these updates and takes a lot of back and forth communication and additional clarification with our shipping representatives. In order to provide information as accurate and detailed as possible, obtaining this information does take quite some time and sometimes a weekly update on the current status is not possible because sometimes what we have is not enough and will only raise more questions or confusion.

We aim to at least provide a new comprehensive shipping update to you all every 2-3 weeks. Our updates send notifications to all of our backers and so we aim to keep our updates relevant for all regions with the most up-to-date information we are given.  

Shipping by Region

UK and EU

Two containers have been loaded this past week for transit to the UK hub. Roughly 300-400 orders bound for the UK will require to be loaded onto a third container and should be picked up this upcoming week. We currently do not have the tracking on the boat and are attempting to get this information from our shipping partner. Once we have this tracking, we will provide it in a new update so you know its progress. We unfortunately do not have tracking numbers available for individual orders. Our understanding is that new tracking numbers will be provided once packages have arrived at the UK facility and processed with their related local courier.

Address changes have unfortunately been out of our hands since even before January due to our orders being locked and in the processing stage for much longer than anticipated. Our current recommendation is to wait until your local tracking number is known. We'll do our best to have this information provided for as soon as we receive the tracking report and upload them to your Backerkit orders as promptly as possible so you can arrange rerouting the address where possible. There's honestly some uncertainty whether some carriers will allow rerouting and we understand that delivery is past our estimates and some of you have changed or will be changing addresses. We hope that you might find comfort in knowing that we are already in the process of setting up a system where we can quickly turn-around and re-ship any necessary orders should it ever come to that.  

Asia, Rest of Europe, New Zealand, and Rest of World

The majority of these orders have been air-shipped and we have just received a tracking report for these air and ground shipments today. We will be spending the next few days uploading them to your Backerkit orders and it's possible that your shipment may have already been delivered. Please disregard any tracking email if that is the case for you since we will be uploading known tracking numbers in its entirety and to mark your pledge as fulfilled. 

If you do not receive your tracking number by Thursday March 26th, please email us at [email protected] so we can look into it for you. We are still currently backlogged on our email responses so please be patient as we work through all of our inquiries at this time. 

Australia

Orders to Australia have been loaded onto the container and are set to arrive at the Australian port on April 4th. Please expect some time after the arrival date for possible customs processing. If there is not much delay in that process, we should expect deliveries to be as early as mid-april and all throughout the month of April. 

We unfortunately do not have individual tracking numbers on Australian orders and will likely have a new tracking report once your packages have been processed at the Australian hub. We're honestly still trying to ascertain with our shipping partner on when we'll receive this report and through what courier will be taking care of delivery. Once this is known, we will include it in a new update.

Canada

Canada is roughly 95% complete as of today. If you did not receive your tracking number yet, you will receive it via Canada Post over the next few days. Fulfillment will continue throughout the weekend with two large courier pick ups scheduled for Monday and Tuesday this upcoming week. It's possible that a small handful of orders may still be straggling after Tuesday but the goal is to have 100% of all orders picked up next week and you should all have your games delivered by the end of next week. 

US

US fulfillment has been complete as of late February. If you are still missing your order, please contact us at [email protected]. We're unfortunately quite behind on messages but are in the process of catching up and will get back to you as soon as we can.
 

Retail Backers

If you are a retail backer reading this and have any questions, please refer them to [email protected]

Damage, Replacements, Missing Items, and Other Questions

If you have any missing parts, questions or require other assistance, please email us at [email protected]. We are still struggling to keep up with the volume of emails and are as far as a few weeks behind on some inquiries. We're trying our best to respond back to everyone and are responding from oldest to newest so just a friendly reminder to refrain from using the Kickstarter messaging system and refrain from emailing us more than once or through multiple avenues such as our social media. We've employed additional help for the next few weeks to help us aggressively catch up on emails. It will honestly take us some time to get our inbox to a manageable size again and we apologize for the delay in our responses.  

Live Streaming in these crazy times

We have noticed a lot of our community is also working from home and that got us thinking of ways where we could hang out with everyone! So until the 27th, we will be live streaming M - F at 2 PM CST on Facebook Live and Twitch.  The Leder Team has been having a blast so far, and we can't wait to see everyone this next week!

Once again, we thank everyone for their patience, and we're extremely excited for you all to receive your games!

Thank you,

Leder Games

Shipping Update #5
over 4 years ago – Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 02:33:19 AM

Hi everyone,

This update is fairly detailed and lengthy since it includes all the information that we currently have from all of our shipping partners. If you only want to read the information for your region, you can skip to that section of the update. We apologize for how long it has taken for this new shipping update, but we have been waiting for more complete information from one of our shipping partners.

It is our absolute promise to all of our backers in this project that we will not sell any of our Underworld products to distribution until we have confirmed the delivery of our backer and retail backer pledges. Our retail release will be held for as long as needed to ensure our backers are prioritized.

If you have any questions, please email [email protected]. Please note that we are overwhelmed with emails currently and responses are taking more than 5 business days at this moment, but we'll do our best to respond as quickly as we can.

A Note About Shipping and an Apology to Our Backers in Europe

This shipping update includes the current information provided by our partners. Any dates given here are estimates, subject to delays or factors outside of our control.

It has honestly been a struggle to obtain accurate shipping updates and timelines with the information provided by our non-US/Canada shipping partner. We remain extremely sympathetic to the coronavirus situation, its effect on people's lives, and the caution necessary to protect the health of employees, and we are mindful of any continuing delays that could be caused by the outbreak.

We deeply apologize to all of our backers in Europe. Our initial plan with this shipping partner was to begin shipping as early as November 2019, with the aim to fulfill orders for all regions at the same time. It is now March and we share your frustration at this situation.

UK and Europe

As of this morning, our shipper has indicated that UK and Europe are only 80 to 90% complete in boxing and labeling orders—a process called “pick and pack.” Currently, there is one ocean container scheduled to pick up some of these orders this week, and another container will be scheduled to pick up the rest of the orders next week. Once both containers have left the shipping facility, we will receive a bill of lading that will allow us to follow the progress of the boat, which we will provide to our backers. With no further delays, the boat will arrive at the UK hub at the end of March or early April, with delivery beginning one to three weeks after that. We are aware of how late this places your fulfillment, relative to our other regions, and we deeply apologize for this situation once again.

For countries outside of the EU, such as Iceland and Switzerland, packages are being shipped via air. Our shipping partner had not indicated this plan, and we only discovered this once we received reports in our comments. We believed that all orders going to Europe were going to travel by ocean freight, so we apologize at the confusion on which orders are going on a boat or by air. If you are in a non-EU country and have not received any tracking information or your parcel yet, please note that this is normal and that, according to our order dashboard, a number of air shipments have not finished packing yet.

In our last update, we mentioned having tracking information. After much clarification from our shipper, any tracking numbers attached to the orders are not trackable by the couriers. Instead, local tracking will be available once packages arrive at the UK hub with local courier tracking numbers. Our shipping partner says that we will have new tracking numbers that we can provide for your orders as soon as they reach the UK.

Australia and New Zealand

Most of the orders to Australia have left the shipping facility and should soon be loaded onto the boat, if not already. We are still waiting for tracking information on the boat. According to our shipper's order dashboard, orders to Australia have been marked as "fulfilled," which usually means that it has left their facility. We will provide the tracking for the boat once we have it, so you can know when to expect your packages. Currently, we do not have tracking for individual packages, since once the packages reach the hub in Australia, a new local tracking label will be attached.

New Zealand ended up being shipped via air, despite our shipping partner indicating it would be loaded onto the boat container with orders to Australia. A small number of orders seem like they have not shipped by air yet. Please wait until fulfillment is considered complete before requesting a follow-up if you have not received your package in NZ yet.

Asia and Rest of World

For most of Asia and countries outside of Asia and Europe, the only shipping method available was by air. Some packages have already been shipped, and some have already been received. Our dashboard shows a number of orders to Asia and other regions are waiting to leave the shipping facility and will be sent via air.

If your package has been shipped, you will have received an email from Floship with your tracking information. But please be aware that not all of our air shipments have been sent out yet and are still being packed currently.

Canada

Most of the inventory for Canada arrived on February 19th. As of March 2nd, Canada was about 25% complete with shipping.

Despite that, fulfillment is ongoing. We aim to have most of the orders packed and tracking numbers sent by March 14th with the inventory that is on hand. The plushies and the additional upgrade packs are awaiting shipment from the US warehouse, and if there's no delay with transit or customs, we hope to have this received by March 16th or so.

All tracking information will be sent by email from Canada Post and will not be uploaded to Backerkit so that you don’t receive tracking notices twice. Your tracking email will give the time of your label creation, which does not reflect when your order will be picked up by the courier, so there may be a few days between when you receive your email and when it starts to show tracking progress.

Because the plushies and extra upgrade kits have not yet reached Canada, about 400 of these affected orders will need to wait until this inventory arrives, so some of you may not receive your tracking information until the week of the 16th. The goal for Canada is to have all packages delivered by the end of this month.

US

As discussed in our last update, US fulfillment is basically complete, and orders containing plushies have been sent as of last week. For a small number of orders, our US shipper could not verify the shipping addresses, but these have now been approved and should be shipping soon, if not already.

Retail Backers

If you are a retail backer and have any questions regarding shipment or your pledge, please email [email protected].

Replacements, Damage, Missing Items, or Other Questions?

If your order has any missing, damaged, or incorrect items, or if you have any other questions, please email us at [email protected]. Please do not use the Kickstarter messaging system for any assistance.

If you require any replacements, please provide a photo, if possible, and your full shipping details so we can process it as quickly as possible.

Please note that we are struggling to catch up with an enormous number of emails. We have an auto-reply set up, so please do not send another email if you have not heard from us since it changes your position in our email response queue. All responses are currently taking more than 3-5 business days, so please be patient and we'll get to you as quickly as we can. There are 20,000 backers for this project alone, so please be aware of this number when emailing in and know that we're doing our best to assist all of you as quickly and with the highest quality of responses as we can.

Thanks!

Leder Games