Shipping fuel in resupply buckets

Ground shipping is fine. It’s how it gets to stores.

I’ve been reading the FB and Yahoo JMT Grouos compulsively for almost two years and I’ve never heard of VVR/MTR/RM/TM running out of isobutane canisters or alcohol. Also the hiker buckets at MTR have approximately 853 partially used canisters at MTR so you could grab a couple of those in the worst case scenario.

I don’t think the store at MTR ever has a line. They sell some t-shirts and fuel, not much more.

DO NOT PUT FUEL IN YOUR BUCKETS!

I did once – I put white gas in with the food supplies in a couple of air drops. ALL the food tasted/smelled quite horribly of white gas when we got there. The oatmeal was almost obnoxious – but we had nothing else. Cooking the oatmeal did not get rid of the smell. Long time ago, but my wife has not forgotten (neither have I).

That was liquid fuel – canisters would be fine except you cannot (legally) air mail them.

Cheers

Christopher’s stuff is only going a few hundred miles, by ground. Can’t ship liquid fuel by air legally.

“but just out of curiosity how many people just mail it in their buckets?”

When I’m not reasonably sure I can get fuel at a resupply stop, I bite the bullet and ship fuel via USPS ground separate from other supplies.  The other supplies go by fixed rate priority mail.

-Lance

The proper way to do this is mail it from a post office and tell them you are shipping the canister… go to the USPS Website and print out the regulation. Don’t ask how I know to print it out ;-)

Nick

I am sure it would be useful to know the URL to that regulation. Help?

Cheers

http://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c3_019.htm#ep898772

Thanks, Ken. I find that many government workers are poorly trained, especially Rangers in offices (try to get a straight answer on stoves) and postal workers. Not their fault — poor management.