My first puer from a vendor in Shanghai took only 18 days versus 30
from Kunming. The 2.5kg parcel was 210 yuan matching my general
approximation of 1k/100 yuan flat rate shipping from apparently
anywhere in China. It was a make do commercial shipping box from
another item wrapped with China Post tape. This was 4 x 500g green
brick squares with a character of ¸£Â»ÊÙìû Fu Lu Shou Xi meaning
fortune, wealth, longevity, happiness respectively pressed on a brick.
I didn't get my presentation box as I requested and the tea was
described as cooked so who knows if from 2002 is correct. These bricks
are aged on a mantle in a picture holder. So at some moment in the
future supposedly you can eat your pieces of art when they get ripe.
The surface is smooth shiny dark green almost like treated with a
parrafin. I trimmed a rough edge for a cup which exposed a much
lighter green underneath. The back also has a non character design
with visible pimples from the press.

Jim