[pct-l] Food/money

[Ate Tuna]

Oops, my mistake, of course you'd want to use the Type B box which does in
fact cost 42 cents more.  That's a pretty extreme example though.

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Ate Tuna <atetuna at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you doing it right?  I just got a rate of $9.37 to ship 15 pounds from
> Miami to Ashland using the Type A box.  It's closer $7 if shipping from San
> Diego.
>
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> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Csilla Tabor <csilla.tabor at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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
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>> 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.
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