[pct-l] Post offices hold packages for only 15 days?

[Terry]

You can always find someone to mail your packages for you while you are hiking the trail, so they arrive a week or so before your ETA to that town. 

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> On Mar 23, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Simon Deleersnyder <simon.deleersnyder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just read on the PCTA website that post offices only have to hold
> packages for 15 days. How is it then possible that people prepare all of
> their food in advance and then ship it to the different post offices along
> the trail BEFORE they start?
> 
> Also, I think that most hikers ship their snow equipment (whether it's
> necessary or not this year) to Kennedy Meadows before they start the trail.
> So this package will be there fore 2 months, isn't that a problem as well?
> 
> And in Ashland, and Cascade Locks it's the same problem I guess since most
> of the hikers prepare all of their Oregon packages in Ashland, and all of
> their Washington packages in Cascade Locks. This means that you have to
> cross both Oregon and Washington in 15 days each?
> 
> Simon
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