[pct-l] bounce bucket

[joel01 at ekit.com]

A bucket is reusable and not likely to fall apart after repeated 
mailings the way a box would do. 

In addition, but not necessarily related to bounce boxes/buckets, 
certain locations may have mouse problems where they store hiker 
boxes. Mice don't eat through plastic buckets (unless they have 
mutated due to overindulging gorp). 


Quoting Sandi <bowed1heart at yahoo.com>:

>All right....a question...why choose to mail a
>bucket as opposed to a box?
>
>joel01 at ekit.com wrote:
>I left the handle on and had no problem. I did
>usually tape the
>handle down. The bucket and handle were all solid
>and intact by the
>end.
>
>However, not everywhere I wanted to mail to
>necessarily had a way to
>mail the bucket back out. As a result I had both
>usps boxes and my
>bucket moving up the country. It would have been
>nice to not use the
>bounce bucket but since I didn't have someone I
>could expect to mail
>things to me whenever I needed, I felt I had to use
>it for certain
>replacement items I couldn't readily get hold of
>otherwise.
>
>Joel (aka Vlad the Impaler)
>
>
>
>
>Quoting Linda Bakkar :
>
>>Hi, all. I am preparing my 5-gallon bounce bucket
>>for my PCT thru-hike.
>>For those of you who have used this kind of bounce
>>system, is it okay to
>>leave the handle on? Have any of you taken off the
>>metal handle and put a
>>rope handle on instead? (That is how I did it for a
>>couple of canoe trips.)
>>
>>Lindy (Blue Butterfly)
>>
>>
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It was then I knew I'd had enough, 
Burned my credit card for fuel 
Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand - Neil Young