<div>thank you...and I notice that someone said something about carrying it by the handle....makes it easier than an unwieldy box.</div> <div> </div> <div>Good idea.<BR><BR><B><I>joel01@ekit.com</I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>A bucket is reusable and not likely to fall apart after repeated <BR>mailings the way a box would do. <BR><BR>In addition, but not necessarily related to bounce boxes/buckets, <BR>certain locations may have mouse problems where they store hiker <BR>boxes. Mice don't eat through plastic buckets (unless they have <BR>mutated due to overindulging gorp). <BR><BR><BR>Quoting Sandi <BOWED1HEART@YAHOO.COM>:<BR><BR>>All right....a question...why choose to mail a<BR>>bucket as opposed to a box?<BR>><BR>>joel01@ekit.com wrote:<BR>>I left the handle on and had no problem. I did<BR>>usually tape the<BR>>handle down. The bucket and handle
were all solid<BR>>and intact by the<BR>>end.<BR>><BR>>However, not everywhere I wanted to mail to<BR>>necessarily had a way to<BR>>mail the bucket back out. As a result I had both<BR>>usps boxes and my<BR>>bucket moving up the country. It would have been<BR>>nice to not use the<BR>>bounce bucket but since I didn't have someone I<BR>>could expect to mail<BR>>things to me whenever I needed, I felt I had to use<BR>>it for certain<BR>>replacement items I couldn't readily get hold of<BR>>otherwise.<BR>><BR>>Joel (aka Vlad the Impaler)<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>Quoting Linda Bakkar :<BR>><BR>>>Hi, all. I am preparing my 5-gallon bounce bucket<BR>>>for my PCT thru-hike.<BR>>>For those of you who have used this kind of bounce<BR>>>system, is it okay to<BR>>>leave the handle on? Have any of you taken off the<BR>>>metal handle and put a<BR>>>rope handle on instead? (That is
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