Mail Bag
| Mail Bag | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Bag or Container |
| Capacity | 20 |
| Weight Reduction | 50% |
| Weight | 0.5 |
| Run Speed | -1% |
| Can Tear | No |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.Bag_Mail
|
The Mail Bag is a large sack that postal workers use to move letters and parcels. It is a roomy container for hauling a lot of light loot. It is carried in the hand rather than worn.
Its main strength is space. It holds as much as a Garbage Bag and halves the weight of what goes inside. Its main cost is that it fills a hand, so it suits trips between a car and a building more than a fight.
Mail bags are found almost only in post offices, where they are a very common sight. They often still hold mail when they turn up, from fliers and magazines to parcels. The Tailor is the best occupation for bags and containers. It starts with the most Tailoring skill.
Carrying
The mail bag holds a large load and takes half the weight of its contents off the carrier. The bag itself is light. Holding it slows running only very slightly.
Because it goes in the hand, it competes with a weapon or a light. Many survivors use it as a loot sack, then drop it in a car trunk or a base. It works well for moving books, magazines, canned food and other bulky supplies.
The Laundry Bag matches it in space, weight relief, own weight and running cost. The Garbage Bag also matches its space for a fifth of the weight. A Duffel Bag holds a little less, but it is worn on the back and takes more weight off. A satchel holds less again, but it frees both hands.
The mail inside is worth sorting. Fliers, brochures, magazines and parcels are the usual finds. Now and then a bag holds a skill magazine on cooking, farming, welding, hunting or another trade.
Tailoring
The mail bag counts as a large sack. The Rip Large Sack recipe turns it into two Burlap Pieces. Any character can do it by hand, anywhere.
Used in Crafting
These recipes accept the Mail Bag by its type rather than by name.
| Recipe | Output | Image | Station | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Large Sack | Burlap Piece | 
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- | /additem Base.BurlapPiece
|
Locations
Post offices are the place to look. Clothes dryers, shelves and metal shelves in the post office and its storage room hold a mail bag in more than half of all checks. Other containers in the same rooms give one about one time in nine.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Post office | Clothes dryer | 55.6% |
| Post office | Metal shelves | 55.6% |
| Post office | Shelves | 55.6% |
| Post office storage | Metal shelves | 55.6% |
| Post office storage | Shelves | 55.6% |
| Post office | Other | 11.5% |
| Post office storage | Other | 11.5% |
Notes
- Opening a fresh mail bag can turn up parcels and skill magazines.
- The Garbage Bag holds as much for less weight, but the mail bag often comes with loot inside.
- An empty mail bag rips into Burlap Pieces for crafting.
- The bag also burns as fire fuel or tinder.
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