Orien Lightning Post

The Orien Lightning Post is run by representatives of House Orien.

Mailboxes are available in most Stormreach districts, e.g. the Harbor. No mailbox is available in Korthos. Guilds of sufficient level can add a mailbox to their Guild Airships.

Characters can send text messages to other characters on the same server (only), including other characters on the same account, for a nominal fee of 1 silver piece (0.01 pp). It is also possible to send unbound items through the mail, 1 per message, which costs and additional 2% of the listed base cost of the item. It is also possible to send currency* without any extra charge. Any or all of these (text, item, coins) can be combined in the same message.


 * (* Max amount is 9,9999 PP, 9,999 GP, 9,999 SP, and 9,999 CP - or just under 11,109pp.)

Use the first name only of the recipient (as every first name is unique across the server).

Items from the Auction House and Shard Exchange that you have successfully bid on, your own expired items not bid upon, and refunds (when you are outbid on a sale) are all automatically sent to your mail box.

As mail is received it has a timer count down that starts at three weeks and decreases each day, to indicate how long it has been sitting in the mail box. Once a message is viewed it has a new timer of five days. In both cases when the timer reaches one day left, and beyond, nothing bad happens. No mail is lost. Upon viewing a piece of mail you can remove the item, cash or astral shards it contains, but if you leave them in the mail, they will not disappear.

Your mail box can become full which prevents you receiving mail from other players sometimes, but you continue to receive all system messages and all messages from the Auction House and Shard Exchange. If your mail is full and you want to receive mail from another player such as a mule, try making sure all the mail is read. If that doesn't work, try sending yourself a piece of system mail (for example by creating an Auction House sale of some cheap item, and then cancelling it). then read that piece of mail.

Mail is sorted into two separate bins: "Confirmed" and "Unconfirmed". Confirmed mail comes from the system (Auction House sales or expired auctions, NPCs notifying you that you have reached a new favor landmark, etc.), or guild mates and people on your Friends list. Unconfirmed mail is from people who are neither in your guild nor on your Friends list.

You can use the mail box to hold hundreds and hundreds of items which you cannot fit in your inventory. If you do, it's strongly suggested that you label the messages so you know what item is in each message.