I'm hopeful that by the end of the year I too will be able to add to this treasure chest! I really like the idea of a physical box being sent around, and even though you see pictures of the goodies online, it's different when you have the physical box in front of you. It sounds exciting!!
I do have a suggestion... if a physical treasure box will be sent around for the GUGE, would it be easier to send it around the US if we divide it? Example, we divide it by time zones! Assuming we have enough members in each time zone to make the GUGE interesting we start chains in each time zone. Once the treasure box makes it back to the first person in the chain it can be sent to the next time zone (either east or west, depending on what the GUGE Administrators decide), when it reaches either coasts, it'll start to work it's way back.
Let's say that we start the Pilot GUGE on the west coast (not being biast, just giving Quicksilver the honor of being one of the first
) and it makes it all the way around the pacific time zone. Assuming the box will head east to the Mountain Time zone, make its way there, and then head east again. Central time, then Eastern time. When the first person of Easter time zone chain gets the box back, they then send it back to the pacific (again, I'm assuming there is such a thing as flat rate shipping no matter how far on the continental US we send it). If that works out well, maybe we can later get people to organize little chains for our friends in Canada, and overseas. They can have their own chains to help recycle their doggy clothes. It might not be the box that traveled around the world, but it's close right? Anyway, just a suggestion.