[pct-l] Amazon.Com Resupply

[Daniel Zellman]

Marcia,

Yes, UPS did deliver packages addressed to "General Delivery" at local POs
-- I can't guarantee that the same will be true next year, of course, but
we never had any issues with this. We also shipped from Amazon to at least
one or two trail angels, and to at least one or two motels.

One of the things we would do differently next time around, though, is to
avoid shipping to post offices as much as possible. Can't tell you how much
it sucks getting into town after the PO closes on a Friday afternoon and
having to spend the whole weekend in a depressing motel watching bad TV and
eating crappy junk food while you wait for the PO to open Monday morning so
you can pick up your resupply. Personally, I'd much rather pony up the
nominal package holding fee at the motel or outfitter or whatever than be
constrained by the tyranny of the US Post Office schedule.

Happy trails....

-dz
(co-captain, Team no Hurries)


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:37 PM, GottaWalk <gottawalk at pacbell.net> wrote:

> Daniel,
>
> Did you have to make sure that a shipper other than USPS didn't ship to
> the PO? Is the PO now accepting packages addressed in care of general
> delivery from UPS? Did you try to ship to trail angels or motels along the
> way?
>
> Thanks!
> Marcia
>
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Daniel Zellman <danielzellman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Kendall,
>
> We used Amazon with very good results on our 2013 thru-attempt. Most
> economical to become a Prime member ($80/yr) which gives you free two-day
> shipping of most items. Things like fuel canisters (and/or other hazardous
> materials) have to go ground, so they're not included in Prime, and you
> thus have to order them a couple of weeks out, but we got Chia seeds,
> shoes, fuel, reading material, and tea, among other things, using Amazon
> along the way.
>
> -dz
> (co-captain, Team no Hurries)
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Kendall Penn <kendallpenn at hotmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have insights or advice for using Amazon to resupply along
> the
> > trail?
> >
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