[at-l] Re: Fuel in Mail - Bad idea

[KAB@concordia-ny.edu (Kurt Bodling)]

Well, as the saying goes: your mileage may vary.

This past summer I mailed myself 2 resupply boxes from the metro
New York City area up to Vermont, with bottled alcohol in both
boxes and it all came through fine.  It was in the original plastic
bottles I'd bought it in at the auto supply store, unopened and
undisturbed.  Maybe that made a difference.  Or was it the
bouncing around in your truck?  I transferred the alcohol to a
Nalgene fuel bottle while I was packing up because the original
containers weren't really resealable.

concordia, LT '02

> Message: 2
> From: "Ed Kendall" <kendall@enter.net>
> To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:20:35 -0500
> Subject: [at-l] Fuel in Mail - Bad idea
>
> On a recent resupply for the Long Trail I decided to
> put a bottle of fuel in my maildrop.
> It was a brand new MSR fuel bottle which I tested for
> leaks and felt good about mailing it.
> In the end I did not mail it and took the box
> home...unable to finish the hike.
> It sat in the box for some time.  Yesterday I needed
> something from that box and found that it leaked badly
> when turned over....it got a little bend at the neck
> while driving around in my pickup.
>
> Lesson for me is that I will never again be tempted to
> put fuel in a maildrop.
>