Long-Awaited Mail -- New Quest

[greensmith]

Long-Awaited Mail


UPDATED WITH REWARD
I got lucky and finished the quest very quickly on my tomgreensmith iPhone game. I figured I was probably going to delete it if GI didn't restore my gifting, so what the heck. I paid twelve greenies for the Large Mailbag containing 20 Letters of Hope and 30 Stationery Knives. I was very lucky on the drops and got four of the Express Delivery Collection very quickly. That gave me four Golden Postage Stamps, which I used to land 20 Mail guest planes. I sent my Turboprop planes to Fiji and my Jets to Madagascar. I spent four greenies on a Golden Dice and got the four You've Got Mail Collections after about eight hours of flying.
Very Important: Once you complete the quest and earn the Broadcast Tower, the three destinations disappear from the destination lists and the Post Office disappears from the Store. If you want to three-star the three new destinations, do not complete the quest until you've done that! The Mail Drops disappear from your city and your neighbors' cities. Your gift item to complete the Post Office remains in your gift list.

A mail plane has dropped its precious cargo near Airport City. Now you'll need to collect the lost mail, deliver Letters of Hope to their destinations and build a Post Office. You'll need a special bonus to land Mail guest planes as well.
1. Assemble Express Delivery Collection by gathering lost mail around Airport City - 4 times
2. Land Mail guest planes (Golden Postage Stamp bonus required) - 20 times
3. Assemble You've Got Mail Collection by visiting Fiji, Madagascar, Easter Island - 4 times

Express Delivery Collection
Letter - drops from lost mail around the city - very seldom
Telegram - drops from lost mail around the city - very seldom
Parcel - drops from lost mail around the city - very seldom
Valuable Cargo - drops from lost mail around the city - very seldom
Postcard - drops from lost mail around the city - very seldom
Reward is Sack of Mail plus 300 coins plus 140 experience plus Golden Postage Stamp (always)

You've Got Mail Collection
Mailbag - drops from flights to Fiji (very seldom), Madagascar (seldom) and Easter Island (seldom) also drops from Post Office (very seldom) and neighbors' Post Office (very seldom)
Postman Cap - drops from flights to Fiji (very seldom), Madagascar (seldom) and Easter Island (seldom) also drops from Post Office (very seldom) and neighbors' Post Office (very seldom)
Scooter - drops from flights to Fiji (very seldom), Madagascar (seldom) and Easter Island (seldom) also drops from Post Office (very seldom) and neighbors' Post Office (very seldom)
Postage Stamp - drops from flights to Fiji (very seldom), Madagascar (seldom) and Easter Island (seldom) also drops from Post Office (very seldom) and neighbors' Post Office (very seldom)
Rubber Stamp - drops from flights to Fiji (very seldom), Madagascar (seldom) and Easter Island (seldom) also drops from Post Office (very seldom) and neighbors' Post Office (very seldom)
Reward is Satchel of Mail plus 300 coins plus 140 experience plus Mail Kiosk (collect four times)

New Destinations
Fiji - Requires Turboprop plus Letters of Hope - 14 fuel / 38 passengers / one-hour flight / 10/20/40 stars / reward is 74 coins, 35 experience and Postage Stamp-Rubber Stamp-Scooter-Mailbag-Postman Cap (very seldom)
Madagascar - Requires Jet plus Letters of Hope - 22 fuel / 80 passengers / three-hour flight / 19/38/75 stars / reward is 103 coins, 75 experience and Postage Stamp-Rubber Stamp-Scooter-Mailbag-Postman Cap (seldom)
Easter Island - Requires Delta plus Letters of Hope - 30 fuel / 160 passengers / five-hour flight / 23/46/92 stars / reward is 142 coins, 132 experience and Postage Stamp-Rubber Stamp-Scooter-Mailbag-Postman Cap (seldom)

Lost Mail around city requires Stationery Knife, which you can buy for two greenies or you can get by tapping Lost Mail around your neighbors' cities.

Letters of Hope can be obtained by tapping on Lost Mail around your city with Stationery Knife. Or you can buy them for greenies. NEW: According to Pakman, the Post Office does drop Letters of Hope. See his image below!

Golden Postage Stamp allows you to land Mail Planes and is active for only five minutes. I was only able to land five Mail Planes during my first five-minute bonus try.

The Store carries a chest of 20 Letters of Hope and 30 Stationery Knives for twelve greenies!

New Building and New Gifts
Available as gifts from neighbors or from flights to different destinations:

Handheld Scanner​

Mail Sorter​

Marking Machine​

Numerator​

These items are dropped (seldom) from flights to Cyprus, Malta, Rome and Dubai ... and are dropped (often) from flights to Shanghai and Berlin.
These items are necessary to build the Post Office. The Post Office is in your Commercial Buildings tab.

Here's an image courtesy of Pakman:

First Step is to visit neighbors' cities and tap on Lost Mail. You may get nothing or you may get a Stationery Knife.

Second Step is to use the Stationery Knife to tap on Lost Mail around your own city. You may get nothing or you may get Letters of Hope or items for the Express Delivery Collection.

Third Step is to use the Letters of Hope to send flights to Fiji, Madagascar or Easter Island. Madagascar and Easter Island are the best bets because they list drops as "seldom" rather than the "very seldom" for Fiji.

Fourth Step is to use the Golden Postage Stamp bonus item to land Mail Planes. Each GPS only lasts five minutes. I averaged 5-6 Mail Planes per GPS.

The Reward for completing the Long-Awaited Mail Quest is the Broadcast Tower:

Extra! Extra! Extra!

Other changes include a new Globe icon where the old Gift icon used to be. The Globe icon takes you to a world map with all current flight destinations. This appears to be part of the additional upgrade "Complete the most flights on select destinations in a week to receive tokens that allow you to purchase special high-speed planes."
New Planes have a 10% increase in speed and include the:
Powerful Propeller Driven S1 - 10 Gold tokens and 100 silver tokens
Turboprop S1 - 10 Gold tokens and 100 silver tokens
Jet S1 - 10 Gold tokens and 100 silver tokens
Delta S1 - 10 Gold tokens and 100 silver tokens
Powerful Delta S1 - 10 Gold tokens and 100 silver tokens
Jumbo S1 - 10 Gold tokens and 100 silver tokens
IMHO these planes aren't worth the effort. A 60-minute flight only takes 54 minutes? Wow!!! A five-hour flight only takes four-and-a-half hours? Big deal!!!
I started this quest with nine Jets because I've been working on getting all the stars for the Space Needle destinations. So I flew my nine Jets to Madagascar. After I get those three stars I'll sell the Jets and buy nine Turboprops to get the stars for Fiji ... then sell those and buy the nine Deltas to fly to Easter Island. I wouldn't be able to do that if I invested in these new "plus" planes. UNLESS GI lets us store them in our Warehouse so we didn't have to keep buying and selling the same planes over and over again. Only then it would be worth it.

I received eight silver tokens for coming in first for a Prometheus launch.

The Gift icon is now included as part of the Social icon menu.
The Collections icon now has sub-menus for All, Space, Adventure and Event.

 

[TimP]

Ah I just saw your post here, I wrote also many information in the other thread, but two is always better as one So I will use your English names in my post as I only translated them

 

[greensmith]

Ah I just saw your post here, I wrote also many information in the other thread, but two is always better as one So I will use your English names in my post as I only translated them

TimP,
And I just saw yours and commented on it. Great minds and all that.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[greensmith]

I visited my ten neighbors today and got ten Stationery Knives when I tapped on their Lost Mail (average of one knife per neighbor). Those got me five Letters of Hope, two Parcels and a Postcard when I tapped on my own Lost Mail. This is one of those quests that's dependent on our once-a-day neighbor visits. It's going to be a long haul.
I'm going to spend the twelve greenies on a case of 20 Letters of Hope and 30 Stationery Knives to get a running start.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[Sorumbas]

The new token system (based on FACEBOOK version): http://airportcitygame.com/threads/there-is-an-update-and-a-new-challenge.3956/#post-56746

Cool i can´t send any of the new items as a gift.

 

[greensmith]

For my Waverly huff iPad game, I just flew my nine Jets twice to Madagascar, using Fuel Catalyst to speed up the flights. I spent four greenies on a Golden Dice. Here's what I got for my 18 flights:
Mailbags - 7
Postman Caps - 4
Scooters - 6
Postage Stamps - 6
Rubber Stamps - 4
So I already finished the third part of the quest. I'm not going to cash them in for the Mail Kiosk yet because I don't know if the destinations disappear when you complete the quest. I know a lot of people don't like spending greenies but this Golden Dice was sure worth it.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[greensmith]

I got lucky and finished the quest very quickly on my tomgreensmith iPhone game. I figured I was probably going to delete it if GI didn't restore my gifting, so what the heck. I paid twelve greenies for the Large Mailbag containing 20 Letters of Hope and 30 Stationery Knives. I was very lucky on the drops and got four of the Express Delivery Collection very quickly. That gave me four Golden Postage Stamps, which I used to land 20 Mail guest planes. I sent my Turboprop planes to Fiji and my Jets to Madagascar. I spent four greenies on a Golden Dice and got the four You've Got Mail Collections after about eight hours of flying.
Very Important: Once you complete the quest and earn the Broadcast Tower, the three destinations disappear from the destination lists and the Post Office disappears from the Store. If you want to three-star the three new destinations, do not complete the quest until you've done that!
Cheers,
Tom

 

[Helen Elizabeth]

I got lucky and finished the quest very quickly on my tomgreensmith iPhone game. I figured I was probably going to delete it if GI didn't restore my gifting, so what the heck. I paid twelve greenies for the Large Mailbag containing 20 Letters of Hope and 30 Stationery Knives. I was very lucky on the drops and got four of the Express Delivery Collection very quickly. That gave me four Golden Postage Stamps, which I used to land 20 Mail guest planes. I sent my Turboprop planes to Fiji and my Jets to Madagascar. I spent four greenies on a Golden Dice and got the four You've Got Mail Collections after about eight hours of flying.
Very Important: Once you complete the quest and earn the Broadcast Tower, the three destinations disappear from the destination lists and the Post Office disappears from the Store. If you want to three-star the three new destinations, do not complete the quest until you've done that!
Cheers,
Tom

greensmith

Thanks for all the information Tom

 

[Red Fox One]

greensmith holy shit that is fast! Thank you for the well-made guide with info and pictures! Good job and congratulations!

 

[Mikket]

Any drops from the Mail Kiosk?

 

[Ianda11]

Nice work! Can't believe you've finished it and I've only just installed it! Lol

 

[Simp1710]

Help! How do I use a golden postage stamp? It's not in my inventory and none of my guest planes have any special mention of the new quest?
greensmith
Thanks!

Edit: the screen which comes up when you enter the game just gave me the option to use one so all sorted!
Thanks anyway

 

[Ianda11]

It's under the bonuses tab (smiley face). It lasts for 5 minutes once you've activated it. I had trouble finding it too! ;-)

 

[Simp1710]

Just to add to the golden postage stamp collection part... It's worth waiting to use your golden stamp until you have 2 guest planes waiting to land! I managed to land 6 planes doing this, compared to only 4 when I didn't have any waiting.

 

[billsnj]

Just to add to the golden postage stamp collection part... It's worth waiting to use your golden stamp until you have 2 guest planes waiting to land! I managed to land 6 planes doing this, compared to only 4 when I didn't have any waiting.

Simp1710 FYI - I did wait and I landed 5 planes. There was quite a delay for the planes to refresh. Bottom Line - I did not get one single DROP !!! And for this I laid out 8 GREENIES ! This is CRAP !!!!

 

[jedverdejo]

Hi,

As i have been labelled as a cheater for restoring a backup, lets talk about how to cheat the golden stamp

Starting with 2 planes waiting, i managed to land 18 planes using just one golden stamp. Well, in fact i landed less than that, but 18 where counted.

The cheat is to force close the game just after loading the planes and before takeoff. After restarting the game, a new plane will be waiting and the landedplane will be counted more than once.

In Spain we have a saying for this "de perdidos al rio", that is, as i have nothing to lose, lets trythings

Regards

 

[Simp1710]

I

Simp1710 FYI - I did wait and I landed 5 planes. There was quite a delay for the planes to refresh. Bottom Line - I did not get one single DROP !!! And for this I laid out 8 GREENIES ! This is CRAP !!!!

billsnj I'm not sure they do drop anything? greensmith are you able to confirm? I think they just count towards the 20 needed to land to complete the quest?
I've landed 15 now and I certainly haven't received anything from them

 

[One Bad Day]

So I updated on my Android (OBD Post Office) and i didn't get any of the items to send as gifts to help with the Post Office...i got every other aspect of this stupid update, but it appears i will not be able to help with gifts to build your Post Offices....i can still send the normal stuff in my sig to assist, please help me out with whatever you guys and gals got.

Thanks, and thanks GI for f**king up my game.

 

[greensmith]

greensmith holy shit that is fast! Thank you for the well-made guide with info and pictures! Good job and congratulations!

Red Fox One,
It's an easy quest if you're willing to spend some greenies. Since my tomgreensmith iPhone game is Cursed by GI (because I bought $9.99 worth of greenies during their three-for-one sale and they delivered 1,056 instead of 96 greenies and said I hacked the game -- I didn't, it was their own bugs), I figured I might as well spend those greenies so I could finish the guide.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[greensmith]

Any drops from the Mail Kiosk?

Mikket,
Only coins so far.
Cheers,
Tom