Talk:Mojave Express dropbox

Use?
What actual use do these serve? --DragonJTSLeave me a message 15:47, November 2, 2010 (UTC)

The only thing I can think of, if you have to much stuff and you don't want to walk between locations. Mmm K2chris1983 15:58, November 2, 2010 (UTC)

Well if you are near one of these boxes, you are almost certainly near a fast travel spot, so you can simply fast travel to where you want to dump/sell the loot and then travel back... I would either not be able to find the box again or just forget about it. --pongsifu Nov 2, 2010

True True, but if you're overburdened that's the only reason I can think of or if you can transfer things between housing? In Fallout 3 I had a lot of stuff.... lol K2chris1983 16:33, November 2, 2010 (UTC)

Probably the most useful aspect of these are moving from one safe house to another. I’m guessing that’s why they are conveniently located at Goodsprings, Novac and New Vegas. When I fist started playing I used the gas station in Goodsprings as storage until I made it to Novac. I didn’t know what they did then so I fast traveled back and forth for quite some time to get all my stuff to Novac. After that I played for a long time before I finally got the Lucky 38 suite and I had tons of stuff in my Novac room by then, over 20,000 pounds worth. I just loaded it all up, dropped it in the Novac box and then picked it up at the Vegas box. The only down side to it is when you pick the items up it puts a notice on your screen for each separate item. I was getting them long after I had unloaded it all but they eventually stopped.ReapTheChaos 02:08, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

A main concern for myself would be, can I use it for long term storage until I get a "house"? or will I play for so long and have it all disappear on me. i have had items disappear on me when using crates and buildings for storage before and had to restart the game to acquire them again. Very frustrating!! PurePoison186 16:19, January 06, 2011
 * I’m not sure about long term. The thing about that is, you need to find more than one to use them.  The first house most people get is the room in Novac so in order to put items in the boxes and send them there you first need to find the box in Novac.  By then you should have the room anyway. ReapTheChaos 08:37, January 7, 2011 (UTC)

Primm Dropbox not working correctly?
The Mojave Express Dropbox in the Nash Residence in Primm doesn't seem to be working correctly for me (XB unpatched version).

After clicking on the dropbox, I see The "Close Box" and "Ship to Goodsprings" options and if chosing the latter I can put items in the dropbox, but they never leave the Primm dropbox; upon returning to the Goodsprings dropbox there is nothing there and then if I return to Primm the items are still in the dropbox even though it says it is [Empty]. This is my second playthrough and I don't recall if I shipped from Primm to Goodsprings previously.

Can someone verify this is happening for them as well? Thanks!

(Crossposting to Primm Talk) De stijl 20:10, November 2, 2010 (UTC)

Also cannot ship from Goodsprings to Primm - same situation as above. I only used these dropboxes two or three times in my previous playthrough mostly moving stuff from Goodsprings to the Strip after acquiring the Lucky 38 Presidential Suite - do I need a Caravan Company status to use the dropboxes? I still have some saves from my previous playthrough and will test the Goodsprings and Primm dropboxes De stijl 22:33, November 2, 2010 (UTC)

I did get them to work correctly after I'd found three of them. I don't know if three is the magic number or if something else was going. De stijl 09:55, November 6, 2010 (UTC)

All my playing cards were lost after sending them from Primm to Goodsprings. Might have been since I left them in the postbox too long. Suedez 02:03, January 8, 2011 (UTC)