[at-l] Transporting stoves, travel to Knoxville airport

[egilroy@comcast.net (Ed Gilroy)]

I asked these questions of my local postal counter worker here in New Jersey
last spring and he kinda shrugged and said as long as it has been "flushed
out" and doesn't smell of gas at all, he would send it USPS GROUND. He did
ask me to write "ORM-D", damned if I know what that acronym stands for, on
the outside of the package to make sure it went ground. I got the package
without fail or problem when I arrived in California. It did take 11 days
however to traverse our great nation. Probably on a donkey or some similar
mode of transport

 At the time I did look in the postal manual online and it prohibits
gasoline type fuels from being sent in ANY quantity through the mail
however. But it does not specifically prohibit used containers or devices.

 I would:

          1)  Flush them really, really well
          2) Package it up tight, no rattling around!!
          3) Write ORM-D on it
          4) Ask at as many postal counters as it takes to get somebody to
take it.

 I believe you will be acting within the spirit, if not the letter, of the
regulations. Hey, that's what I did. YMMV.

   Ed

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Seeley" <bgseeley@hotmail.com>
To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:26 PM
Subject: [at-l] Transporting stoves, travel to Knoxville airport


> Hi everyone-
>
>   I'm starting at Springer in three weeks and hope someone out there can
> give me advice on two issues:
>
> 1) I'm flying Continental into Atlanta and their baggage policy says no
> stoves and no fuel bottles.  Does anyone know if it's kosher to mail
stoves
> and fuel bottles through USPS or UPS?  I have a friend down there whom I
> could mail them to.
>
> 2) I need to get from Davenport Gap (near Mt. Moma's at the end of the
> Smokies in Tennessee) to the Knoxville Airport April 18, and back from the
> airport to the Gap April 21 (wedding in Vermont).  Any ideas on how I
could
> do this?  I've called Knoxville cab companies, but none have even heard of
> Davenport Gap and I don't really trust them.  I talked to some folks at "A
> Walk in the Woods" tour company, who were nice, but they want $180 round
> trip, which is steep for me.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.  I've been lurking for a bit and
have
> picked up quite a bit of useful info so far.
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan (trail name TBD)
>
>
>
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