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 ¸£»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