To figure out exactly what kind of shipping method you need to choose to ensure delivery by or on December 24th, consult our UPS Transit Time Map.
(All orders are shipped from our Seattle, Washington headquarters.)

As a general rule, we would recommend (assuming you place your order on these days before 2:00pm Pacific Time):
Wednesday (19th): UPS 3 Day Select ($12-22)
Thursday (20th): UPS 2nd Day Air ($15-32)
Friday (21st): UPS Next Day Air ($30-45)

Customers in Washington, Oregon and California may be able to
choose UPS Ground and still have their package guaranteed by
Christmas Eve: consult the map
or give us a call (1-800-729-9607) or send us an email
if you have any questions.

If you’re looking for a last-minute gift, consider a TOM BIHN
gift certificate.

How well do you know the world? Take the Traveler IQ Challenge and find out. (Originally linked by PM4HIRE in the TOM BIHN Forums.)

Read moriond’s post: A few excerpts of color commentary for light entertainment.

One Bag, One World recently published a post concerning the difference between 1050 denier ballistic nylon and 1680 “ballistic nylon” (linking to Tom’s description in our forums of the difference between the two fabrics.) It’s definitely worth a read. FYI, the only ballistic nylon we use is 1050 denier U.S. made ballistic nylon.

For those of you overseas or on the East Coast who want to receive your orders being shipped via UPS Ground ($7) or UPS Expedited International by or on December 24th — order tomorrow (12/17) before 2:00pm Pacific Time. Don’t worry, though: you have up until Friday, December 19th at 2:00pm to place your order with expedited shipping.

If you’re the DIY type, you can use our UPS Transit Time Map to calculate exactly how long it will take for your package (shipped from our Seattle, WA headquarters) to arrive. Otherwise, give us a call (1-800-729-9607 or +1-206-652-4123) or send us an email (inquiries@tombihn.com). We’re happy to help you figure out which shipping method will guarantee delivery on the day you want.

Medium Cafe Bag: 8 liters (475 cu. in.)

Small Cafe Bag: 6 liters (350 cu. in.)

Over the next few months we will be implementing a new standard for the measuring of the volume of our bags. This will allow you to compare, as it were, apples-to-apples when shopping for a new backpack, messenger bag or travel bag. You can feel confident that our quoted volume measures will reflect this industry standard — look for it when comparing our bags to the competitors.

(Tom’s quite certain that our current, in-house standard is very close to this industry standard: you’ll see very little change in the published numbers.)

The standard is called ASTM F2153-01 “Standard Test Method for Measurement of Backpack Capacity,” ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, www.astm.org.

The out-of-stock color combinations of the Swift knitting bag (Cocoa/Olive, Steel/Plum, Steel/Black, Crimson/Black, and Crimson/Steel) were originally going to be sold out until mid-November. But thanks to the hard work of our Seattle factory crew, the Swift is now back in-stock in all colors! For those of you with backorders for the Swift: your order will ship out tomorrow. And any new orders placed before 2:00pm Pacific Time tomorrow will ship out tomorrow, too.

New pictures of the Medium Cafe shoulder bag (including interior views) can be found on the Medium Cafe Bag page.

From Stephen Fung Dot Net:

Other goodies include my SOLIO Solar Powered gadget charger which is charging my phone in the picture, and the Tom Bihn Zephyr laptop bag. Both of which were featured in the Futurelooks Back To School 2007 Guide.