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Re: [at-l] Maildrop Alert, Gardners Pa.

I understand that it should be kept at the Post Office, however the Post Office
asked for help keeping hikers from getting upset when they discover that they have
to walk 20 miles of road out-of-the-way to pick up their packages.
Ironmasters must be listed somewhere, just got another package yesterday. :)

Tom
tomha@epix.net

WH HAWKINS wrote:

> Tom
> Mail addressed to general delivery should be kelp at the post office. If the
> Ironmasters Mansion Hostel and/or the General Store want to offier there
> places as a maildrop location. You need to publish your addresses for the
> hiker's to use, to mail there packages to your place's.
> _________________________________
> Patty
> Correct way to address mail drops:
>
> Mail drop to a post office:
> Your Name
> C/O General Delivery
> City, State, Zip Code
>
> Mail drop to other location:
> Your Name
> C/O Name a person and/or business
> City, State, Zip Code
>
> On the package put the following statement:
>
> Please Hold For AT Hiker.
> Est. Pickup Date:________________.
>
> Wildbill
> ____________________________________________________________________
> In a message dated 98-05-12 13:48:31 EDT, dpmgr.amc@paonline.com (Tom Ha)
> writes:
>
> > Subj:  [at-l] Maildrop Alert, Garderns Pa.
> >  Date:        98-05-12 13:48:31 EDT
> >  Reply-to:    tomha@epix.net
>
> >  I was just at the Gardners, Pa Post Office and was asked to see that word
> > was passed on to everyone current/future thru-hiking re: the Post Office.
> The
> > postal employee (who has been there for 14 years) is faced with a quandary
> that
> > he would like to have resolved as best as is possible. He receives mail
> drops
> > nearly daily, and while he holds them for the mandatory 10 days, and more if
> he
> > has the space available, he gets many that are sent to him as "general
> delivery".
> >
> >  And there's the rub... What the vast majority of thru-hikers don't realize
> > is that while we (at Ironmasters Mansion Hostel), and the "General Store"
> next
> > door both have Gardners mailing addresses... the Post Office itself is about
> 6
> > miles as the crow flies, and closer to 10 miles away as a road-walk.
> >
> >  The problem is, mail delivered to general delivery is not (technically)
> > supposed to be sent on to us or the store. So any hikers that send there
> stuff
> > there would have to get there to get their stuff. And while the Post Office
> does get
> > the occassional hiker on their doorstep looking for a box, mostly the boxes
> are
> > either forwarded to us or the store (and picked up)(technically a no-no), or
> > returned when the sender never shows.
> >
> >  I'd like to say also that we here at the Hostel will hold hiker boxes for 3
> > months for someone to show up (or send us forwarding instructions), and even
> > then we'll send a postcard to the return address asking for instructions,
> before
> > sending it back. The downside is that we're not always around during the day
> (our > closed hours from 0930 to 1700) to give out boxes.
> >
> >  So, can we get word out, to those about to send out maildrops and for
> future
> >  publications? I'm sure it can be worded much more breifly that this. :)
> >
> >  Tom
> >  tomha@epix.net
> >
> ____________________________________________________________________
> In a message dated 98-05-13 07:16:18 EDT, Fourwh1021@aol.com writes:
>
> > Subj:  Re: [at-l] Maildrop Alert, Garderns Pa.
> >  Date:        98-05-13 07:16:18 EDT
>
> >  So what is the correct way to address mail drops?  Not that I will be doing
> >  any soon...just for general info.  In fact, I am curious about the whole
> > mail drop system.



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