Link? I haven't paid much attention to them cuz I didn't think they would be up anytime soon, but that sounds hilarious.

I don't think you've properly ruled out your hard drive.  You said it was "fine", but didn't specify how you came to that conclusion.  Have you run a disk check on it?  What does the SMART data show?

ok - i am either blind or the flat-rate box size for the blades is not posted.  please let me know what i need to choose for the USPS flat-rate box for 1 blade.

Waiting for my btcquick account verification. It'll be coming up on 24 hours. Hopefully I can get in on the group buy before it's over!

100TH was hit by a major production setback and will not be online for probably at least another 2 months.

What's your deadline for this group buy? I have to wait for my limit to clear on btcQuick before I can have enough coins to make a complete purchase otherwise, I can just go with what I have. Thanks!

How I did it.

1. PAYMENT STEP.
I got enough BTC into my local Bitcoin-Qt wallet for the purchase of 5x ASIC Erupters, which Canary is selling at 0.31 per at THIS TIME. I sent the payment and it asked me to pay extra 0.0002 BTC for transaction. I clicked OK and it went through. After some time I went into Transactions tab in Bitcoin-Qt, right clicked on the -1.5502 transaction and selected show transaction details, which gave me Transaction ID:



2. ONLINE NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT STEP
I posted in this thread per Canary's instructions:

BorisAlt; 5; 1.55; 15aJAPshhWsNJRYx4FnjYPd9fer8XM1cNT

The 15aJAPshhWsNJRYx4FnjYPd9fer8XM1cNT was the address that I use to receive my coins from other sources (more on this later).

3. PAYING FOR SHIPMENT STEP (optional, if you don't want to pay BTC for shipping)
I went to USPS and selected Ship a Package --> Print a Label:


Navigated to specifying address. Note, check the box to specify ZIP code to ship FROM ANOTHER ZIP CODE:



A few clicks later related to weight and size and shipping options and entering my credit card info, I got a window to print or save it as PDF. I saved it as PDF.

4. ASSOCIATING YOUR PAYMENT ADDRESS WITH YOUR PHYSICAL MAIL ADDRESS
Followed previous instructions on signing a message (physical shipping address) with my (bitcoin) address.
Will repeat briefly, that's what it looked like in my case:



Clicked "Sign Message" and got green confirm that it was done. Note, it creates a Signature at the bottom.

5. NOTIFYING CANARY OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PAYING and PHYSICAL ADDRESSES STEP:
Sent an email per instructions to canary.btc@gmail.com containing the following:

1. 15aJAPshhWsNJRYx4FnjYPd9fer8XM1cNT
2:
----start below------
Same address as in the Signed message from previous step
----end above-------
3: LongAssSignatureString...RFfQ3koovqa0Hr9xfIJTk7lMKmFIOlk3fO4FZ11tzHeOT51Hfo=

6. FINAL STEP, SEND SHIPPING LABEL PDF TO CANARY

I sent another email to Canary's canary.btc@gmail.com, this time attaching PDF from STEP 3 and the following body:

d9192cc3d48721355e897317d6164be6702b5d26bd38e613fc1b973a7c157a7b (from STEP 1)
15aJAPshhWsNJRYx4FnjYPd9fer8XM1cNT (sending/receiving bitcoin address)
940550XX9930002541XXX (USPS tracking number from shipping label PDF from STEP 3)
LongAssSignatureString...RFfQ3koovqa0Hr9xfIJTk7lMKmFIOlk3fO4FZ11tzHeOT51Hfo= (from STEP 4)

What confused me by far the most was, what was my "sending address"? I receive botcoins with 15aJAPshhWsNJRYx4FnjYPd9fer8XM1cNT, but is it the same as my "sending address"? It turns out, Canary's instructions had the explanation but it was a bit too vague for me. He stated, "first sending address", which I was able to discover right here:

http://blockexplorer.com/tx/d9192cc3d48721355e897317d6164be6702b5d26bd38e613fc1b973a7c157a7b

It turns out that my sending address is the same one as my "receiving address". It may or may not be true for you, but for me it was the case since I use the same address for receiving bitcoins. Regardless, first address from  blockexplorer associated with the transaction should be provided on second line. The blockexplorer site also verifies that indeed 1.55 was transferred from my bitcoin address to Canary's bitcoin address:



It all really makes sense, but getting their is confusing at first. Once you did it once, it's super super easy and fool proof.

Thank you.

I actually sent it to your personal email listed in update 2 I believe.

-Arrow

I'm using Bitcoin-QT for linux which is using Qt version 4.6.2.  Somewhat different than earlier versions or windows versions, this provided me no means of messaging to include the USPS tracking number.  In fact with a couple of receive addresses I wasn't sure what address the wallet sent the BTC from and only found that for sure looking at the transaction ID on blockchain.info.  So, how do I sign the USPS tracking number.  My PM to the gmail address included my name and address and the attached USPS label has exactly that although the return address has my name above the CanaryInTheMine company name and address.  How do I sign the USPS tracking number or is it even an issue with all the data in that one message?

Hi. I'd like one as a novelty item (doubt it would every pay for itself..yadda yadda) so how much for shipping to Canada?

 I did that too but it will ask what zip code will it ship from.  Canary's zip is 60181  


    edit someone please confirm the zip

At USPS, it created a label that had my address as both TO and FROM. It also has a field on the label that stated that it will be shipped from a different ZIP code. I put Canary's zip in that field. I have no idea if that's right or not, but that's what I sent to Canary.

Is Canary PMing his return address so we can create a shipping label?

Have you read my PM?