Sending stuff from alts to mains?

Does anyone know of a way to send items such as crafting materials from alts to your main without having to use a friend? Friending your main doesn't work cause the main needs to be online for that to happen, mailing it to your main is impossible because you can only mail things to people on your friends list, and retainers are not shared between alts and mains. So is there anything that can be done or must I rely on a friend with the currently implemented system?

What reason is there to have an ALT in the first place?

Aren't retainers shared across all characters on your account? Sure I read that somewhere. :)

If for whatever reason you want to use an alt, I can confirm it is possible to mog mail yourself.

I was disconnected in an instance and appeared online with [Another World] Status, logged onto alt, managed to send friendslist request :D

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Originally Posted by Vovoen

What reason is there to have an ALT in the first place?

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More inventory space as myself and my retainer are already full.

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Originally Posted by Starbell

Aren't retainers shared across all characters on your account? Sure I read that somewhere. :)

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I could not access the retainer as a lvl 1 alt, so presumably i'd need to get to the appropriate lvl first before I could confirm.

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Originally Posted by Arcane

If for whatever reason you want to use an alt, I can confirm it is possible to mog mail yourself.

I was disconnected in an instance and appeared online with [Another World] Status, logged onto alt, managed to send friendslist request :D

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Sounds like you got lucky to me personally, I doubt I'd be able to replicate that bug.

Just use the fc chest, I do that all the time

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Originally Posted by Sartori

Just use the fc chest, I do that all the time

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Who's gonna let you take a FC spot for your lv1 alt? except it's a very bad FC that nobody wants to join.

So no way to send things from alt to main exists then?

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Originally Posted by mistsong2

So no way to send things from alt to main exists then?

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None. Unless you have a FC that's willing to let you use the vault as the in-between. You do not share retainers. Each character gets 2 unique retainers that only they can access.

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Originally Posted by mistsong2

So no way to send things from alt to main exists then?

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I used my alt.account to trade items. but only when we're in free trial period.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

Who's gonna let you take a FC spot for your lv1 alt? except it's a very bad FC that nobody wants to join.

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FCs can have up to 512 members. i don't think that's an issue for even the biggest FCs I've heard of.