[pct-l] Mailing Isues

[Daniel Zellman]

Ah, ha! Thanks.

-dz

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Jackie McDonnell <yogihikes at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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> >     --Buddhist proverb
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