After using the COD mail a couple times, there's definitely room for improvement. I posted what's below in the Mechanics section of Discord, but mirroring it here as well in case it gets scrolled into oblivion:

COD Mail Notes and Suggestions:

-Costs: Stamp, package, delivery fee (collected when package is taken after confirmation), COD fee (deducted from what recipient pays), converting notes (if the package was collected in a town other than the one the sender is in)

-Added together, the costs for sending an item COD outweighs the benefits when using it to finalize a sale (which I assume is tha main use for the feature). The COD fee and the need to convert notes are the main offenders with the other fees mostly negligible except for low-value items. With note conversions costing as high as 5% or more (the rates for most towns are not available, was only able to find those for Zul on the wiki), the total costs associated with sending COD can easily be 10% or more for low-value items.

-Eliminate either stamps or delivery fee. The cost of a stamp is the fee for delivering a letter or package in any postal system, the stamp itself is simply proof that fee has been paid. One possible solution is to make placing the stamp on the package an optional step, if one is affixed the delivery fee is not charged but if one is not the attendant will collect the fee and place a generic stamp on the envelope/package.

-Automatically convert notes to the currency used in the town they're collected from with no extra fee. Why the note used to collect the item is mailed back to the original sender is mystifying. It would cost the company more to send all those notes across Elanthia than a single message indicating which CODs have been successfully delivered and can be paid out, the attendant would then write out a note in the local currency when the sender arrived to collect. This would eliminate the biggest drawback to using COD and make it much more attractive.


Starchitin, the OG

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