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Great game! Only three real points of contention:

1) After you put a letter/parcel in the mailer, it takes a delay to work on the next one. Many times I clicked the mailbag only to be told to finish the current letter, even though it has already been sent.

2) Mechanically, there isn't really a reason to buy any of the repair tools. It is faster to just put them in the undeliverable pile and move on, whereas the desk upgrades make everything easier and award you a higher salary. Obviously it's the most fun to fix them, but it's hard not to feel like you're throwing money into a hole unless they're cheap... which occurs after you buy the desks instead.

3) Considering how often you have to use the portal, it takes too long. If the mailbag was ALSO present in the moss dimension, it wouldn't be so bad. Work on the mail until you get one in the other dimension, swap, work on the mail until you need to swap again. Either that or speed up the portal time, it's bothersome to wait every time you need to go to the other place, and then back, and forth, and back, and forth...

3.5) I'm sad I can't dig the undeliverable mail back out once I had the tools. It's undeliverable forever!!

3.75) Edit: I forgot one! When the auto-sorter is purchased, you can click a letter and put it in the now-equally-colored sorter, implying you can put them anywhere. This is not the case and I was deducted 100 stamps at the end of the day. Then I realized you right click the letter and it auto sorts/sends. Both should probably work, or disable the option to manually put them in the sorter.

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Thanks for playing and for your feedback! Some of these issues I am aware of.

Issue #1 I am aware of and it is an easy fix, just tedious. I will definitely fix that in a later update.

To solve issue #2, would you suggest that I add a penalty for any undeliverable item of mail? I hate to penalize the player on the first few days, but perhaps the postmaster could give them a 3-day grace period or somesuch so that after a few days it begins to penalize them.

Item 3.5 - don't worry, the postmaster comes in after you are finished to mail those properly! :)

3.75 - nope, you can still incorrectly mail letters if you do not use the auto-sorter! :)

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm maybe add a bonus for fixing up the mail. Doing an extra good job, if you will! Could just be a simple +1 stamp that doesn't scale. Extra worth it early on, just part of doing the job later on.

Still, I have to stress it's an excellent game, I enjoyed it a lot. I only highlighted the potential issues!

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Thanks! That is an interesting angle, give a +1 to a fixed piece of mail. Thanks for the input!

I plan to continue developing the idea for this game because I’m crafting this as a sort of mini-game for a larger scale rpg/sim game I’m working on, so I’m interested in ways to keep improving it.