[pct-l] Food/money

[Csilla Tabor]

The regional rate boxes aren't necessarily cheaper (as I just discovered
through experience recently, without doing the appropriate research
beforehand). The flat rate box is a little bit bigger than the large
regional rate box, and both cost
about $15 when mailing 8ish pounds from Florida to California. I tried to
look up prices for other regions on the usps site (since our support people
will be mailing boxes from Ohio and New Hampshire), but it was really
confusing to me.

In conclusion, the regional rate boxes are probably cheaper.....unless you
live on the east coast.
   ~Csilla~

Message: 30
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 16:18:58 -0700
From: Ate Tuna <atetuna at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food/money
To: Axel Roos <roosaxel at csu.fullerton.edu>
Cc: Pct-L at backcountry.net
Message-ID: <BANLkTik1-ytVYe=y=Mi=-tRyVPpMhXQ2ug at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Flat rate is not the least expensive way to ship priority anymore. This is
another reason you should have Yogi's books.  Regional rate type A & B are
now less expensive.  Go to the USPS website and compare.  In my case it's
cheaper to any point on the trail by an average of over 30%.

That sampler is a horrendously expensive idea.  That's about 1 day of food
for the both of you.  At about $50 a day, you would be out of money in less
than a month.