[pct-l] Muir Trail Ranch package fees

[teamcourage at attbi.com (Dave)]

hey I just don't use them. I  send to other places. the thing is even if 
they didn't do this for backpackers they still would have to send 
employees out to get packages because of there own and there employees 
packages. SO no mater what it isn't an extra trip. Hey I don't mind 
giving say 5 bucks has a tip for  service well done but any thing more 
is to much.

JohnDRandall@aol.com wrote:

>The post office for the Muir Trail Ranch is in the mountain community of 
>Lakeshore, which is about 25 miles down a narrow, twisting secondary county road 
>from the road end at Florence Lake.   The packages are picked up by MTR 
>employees, ranchhands mostly, stacked into a jeep and hauled back to the lake, where 
>they are either loaded into the lake's small ferry and transported to the 
>opposite site, then loaded onto horses or mules...or driven cross country on a 
>poorly-defined jeep path up to the ranch, five miles on the eastern side of the 
>lake.   At the ranch the packages are offloaded, moved to a storage shed and 
>accounted for by the staff.
>
>My wife and I have stayed at the ranch twice, choosing to hike once and to 
>ride a horse another time.   Whatever they charge, $18 or $25 or higher, is a 
>service just like FedEx or UPS.   They aren't saving up for a trip to Bali with 
>the money they charge for the service.  In fact, they lose money on it;  it's 
>a service to the backcountry community.   Dude, pay the money or mail your 
>packages to Vermillion or hike out to Bishop.  But, please, stop whining.
>
>John Randall
>Birmingham, AL
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