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Re: technic box #2
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Date: 
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 07:17:41 GMT
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You create it, you set the rules.  You also take the risk of never seeing it
again, as we have found out :-/

Box size - irrelevant if it stays in the US.  If you expect it to hit Canada (I
would), then keeping it within the USPS size for a Small Parcel would help, and
keeping the weight of the box down would help - try to find a smaller box with
nice stiff sides that is relatively lightweight.  They do exist.


rhendrix wrote:

> before I decide to get this thing going, a couple of questions...
> 
> What does the initial box sender (i.e. me) get out of this situation.  Does
> the box come back around to the sender after a certain trip around the world,
> keep going like the energizer bunny, or get lost because some twerp decided to
> keep it?
> 
> What size box is preferred and how many parts should be initially put in it?
> 
> -Rob

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(...) Right. I made a box and dictated that I would be every tenth recipient. (I need to get it back out after the last ten...I'm sitting on it.) (...) I wouldn't want to let it get too big. Say <$6 to mail on each stop. But that's just my two (...) (27 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)

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  technic box #2
 
before I decide to get this thing going, a couple of questions... What does the initial box sender (i.e. me) get out of this situation. Does the box come back around to the sender after a certain trip around the world, keep going like the energizer (...) (27 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)

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