[pct-l] Mailing Isues

[Jackie McDonnell]

For USPS, you can use Click-N-Ship.
Create an account.
Creat an address book.
Enter your credit card info.
Weigh your boxes.
Write the weight & destination on the box.

Your home resupply person logs onto your acount, chooses the proper
address, prints the mailing label, drops the box at the PO.  There's even a
field where you can enter your email address; you'll get an email with
tracking info.

Yogi
www.pcthandbook.com
 On Mar 22, 2013 8:15 AM, "Daniel Zellman" <danielzellman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure if this will be of use or interest to anyone else, but it
> surprised us and forced a quick re-think, so....
>
> Spent about an hour on the phone with US Postal Service yesterday and
> learned that they DO NOT allow you to bring your package into the PO, have
> it weighed and measured and pay for postage, and then walk out with the
> postage-paid box to give to your friend/family member to mail to you in
> three months. According to the individual with whom I spoke, the label they
> stick on your package is only "valid for three (3) days." (Each individual
> post office DOES have discretion and is PERMITTED to accept the package,
> but they are NOT REQUIRED to do so.) You can buy pre-paid flat rate boxes,
> of course, but we found that the large flat rate box wasn't big enough to
> hold even four (4) days of food for two people, and most of our resupplies
> are at least five, and up to ten days. So it seems we're stuck giving our
> pre-packed and -addressed boxes to our support person and leaving her with
> sufficient $$ to pay for the postage as she mails each one.
>
> Five of our resupplies are going by UPS, and I was able to create an online
> account and pay for and print off labels for those five boxes (weighed on
> our digital bathroom scale and then rounding up to the next pound), which
> the UPS agent I spoke to on the phone told me were good for up to five
> months plus the current month, meaning they'll be good into September.
>
> Just saying....
>
> -dz
>
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