#pirateship

The figs won me over for this build. They look good.

Got the octopus made. Nice little thing, love it!! Also love that on the back of a crew member, he got a classic octopus print on him.

Wait, I can save these wedges for later builds. >:)

I’m flying, squidward.

A new captain, reminds me of another adventurer wouldn’t you say?

Great place to store your treasure, but you can only get it on dry land…

Check out those guns!!!

Dude may have skipped a meal.

Done. Honestly, this is a good, basic ship. No flags to show who they belong to, has good details and fun to build. Figs are excellent, looks great, and fills the ship well. Love the octopus, that was a nice addition 10/10

So, the long-dreaded death of my shipping solution's API integration hit me. Pirateship is very useful as an aggregator for multiple points of sale, and Etsy's shipping isn't something I want to rely on since Etsy's already honest about scraping every penny they can. Sure, I can cave and go to the services Etsy (for some ulterior motive) wants me to have access to, but Pirateship WORKS and I like it. You can use Pirateship via copying and pasting the information, and copying the confirmation information back to Etsy, but that is grindingly inefficient.

So I did what a customer is allowed to do, and called the help line. Well, I requested a call, since you cannot call Etsy directly (that would be useful), or chat (that would require the chat to load on Firefox, and also not to be an LLM).

After four tries (two hangups and one callback that doesn't get picked up, because answering calls would be useful), I have a case number for a feature request (namely, restoring Pirateship's access) and an e-mail to follow up on. I will be following up on this.

I used to drop stuff off at UPS at Staples all the time. Now I won't.

I had to ship something to my parents on vacation. Shipped it Saturday, given they say "we ship 7 days a week".

My tracking says the package never got dropped off, despite me getting a receipt from Staples.

I ended up calling Staples and asking about it. The guy was rude, AF. I ended up having to hang up on him.

It's Wednesday and still it says "waiting for package" on tracking via pirateship com.

Classic tattoo sketch of a pirate ship with traditional nautical elements, in navy blue and white, in a timeless clipart style