[pct-l] shipping fuel canisters

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

Box, bucket, whatever. It seems to be a misunderstanding that you  
have to use the boxes marked priority mail to use the priority mail  
service. Any package is priority mail if you pay the priority mail  
price. They put a sticker on it. You get the forwarding and the other  
perks of priority mail. You can use a bucket, a bear canister or a  
box out of a dumpster and still get all the priority mail perks.

The regional rate priority mail is different. That's the one you  
order from the internet. The flat rate box is also different. That's  
the one you have to use a special box for. But any container can be  
plain old priority mail with a sticker and some cash.

By the way, when I would need to forward my bouncables ahead. I would  
tell the post office clerk and have my new label ready. She'd go get  
the bucket and slap on the new label for me. I had one clerk say I  
wasn't eligible for this service. We argued. He relented "for you,  
just this once." When I received my package in the next town it had a  
letter taped on it from him saying he looked up the regulation and I  
was correct and he was sorry for arguing with me.


On Apr 12, 2011, at 11:25 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> Subject: Re: [pct-l] shipping fuel canisters
>
>
> Re: Bounce Box free if unopened.   I'd like to know if that's a  
> fact.  If
> so, is that only for bounce BOXES or is that also true for bounce  
> BUCKETS?
>
> Thanks,
> Kolby