Nephew working in Asscrackistan has requested some Pace picante sauce. I have no idea whether a gallon plastic jug of Pace picante sauce (he likes that brand) will survive the trip over there. I’m thinking about the gallon jug instead of smaller glass containers because I won’t have to worry about it getting shattered, it will be less weight of container and more of product, and I think it will max out a flat rate box more efficiently, being rectangular instead of circular.

Anybody have any experience in shipping such an item to an APO address? Or as the recipient of a liquid sent in a plastic bottle or jug?

Thanks for any advice.

Plenty of exp. receiving boxes sent to an APO address.

Definitely get the plastic bottles. Tape the tops shut and wrap it in bubble wrap.

Only consideration at shipping smaller plastic containers (I think they make a 38oz plastic container as well) is if his access to a refrigerator is limited, it would ensure he wont be wasting a lot of it. Or if the box is damaged, maybe some of them will survive.

I know you said Pace but there are several other brands that offer single serving packages that require no refrigeration. Perhaps you could place the plastic Pace bottles in the flat rate box then fill in the air space with the packets from one of these other brands.


https://www.amazon.com/Victori...ckages/dp/B0025UOFA4


https://www.amazon.com/Salsa-D...ckages/dp/B0025UNTRE

https://www.amazon.com/Victori...ackets/dp/B00V5BMNJE

Before wrapping it in bubble wrap I'd also wrap it in a tightly sealed garbage bag or large ziploc too.

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Originally posted by TXJIM:
I know you said Pace but there are several other brands that offer single serving packages that require no refrigeration. Perhaps you could place the plastic Pace bottles in the flat rate box then fill in the air space with the packets from one of these other brands.


https://www.amazon.com/Victori...ckages/dp/B0025UOFA4


https://www.amazon.com/Salsa-D...ckages/dp/B0025UNTRE

https://www.amazon.com/Victori...ackets/dp/B00V5BMNJE

Are those from New York City?

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

quote:

Originally posted by TXJIM:
I know you said Pace but there are several other brands that offer single serving packages that require no refrigeration. Perhaps you could place the plastic Pace bottles in the flat rate box then fill in the air space with the packets from one of these other brands.


https://www.amazon.com/Victori...ckages/dp/B0025UOFA4


https://www.amazon.com/Salsa-D...ckages/dp/B0025UNTRE

https://www.amazon.com/Victori...ackets/dp/B00V5BMNJE

Are those from New York City?

every time I eat a new salsa I look where it is made and think of that commercial

Thanks guys.

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Sending picante sauce in a care package

Sounds like an entry on a list of things you probably shouldn't do

regardless of size,

tape (I used electrical tape) the lid down,
wrap in bubble wrap
place in a large zippy bag, and tape that shut after folding the top over,
more bubble,
flat rate box,


I ***cough*** ***cough*** know someone ***cough*** that mailed a couple fifths of likker to an APO damn near monthly back in the day,

using plastic soft drink bottles,

never a leak,



as far as size, if you use the gallon size, look at a Regional Rate B box,
you can generate postage on line for them and they are slightly larger than a med flat rate


cost dependent on distance and weight, but usually competitive if not cheaper

Im pretty sure that also comes in smaller plastic jars, Qt maybe. Those would withstand a greater impact. Loss of one seal would mean the loss of 25% not 100%.

The design of the container will mean more than the material. The salad dressing type containers are prone to failure. A good drop blows the damn lid right off. Another thing to consider is if the stuff is going to freeze in the cargo hold. That single thing can ruin your plans. One bottle inside a bunch of freight may last 72 hours before freezing, another near the outside might only make it 12 hours.

I would choose the smaller plastic screw down lidded product. Pack it tightly in a well padded/insulated box and hope for the best.

We only have Pace in smaller glass containers or the large plastic jugs at our crummy grocery store here. He has plenty of the little single serve envelopes of picante sauce stuff, but doesn’t much care for the taste of it.

I’ll check the real grocery store next time I visit the big city.

If you have a Sams or Costco get a friend to get you in there.

Whatever box you use line it with more cardboard. I use the same size box and cut it down so i can place a piece of cardboard top and bottom at a minimum. I do the sides too if at all possible. I have also put the good stuff inside a box adequately cusholioned then wrapped that box with bubble wrap on the outside and placed that nox inside a larger box. You could ship nitro that way.

I hope that ^^^ all makes sense.

*not intended as a distraction*.....

re: shipping wrapped to increase likelihood of arriving intact:

"someone I knew" was charged with shipping Oreos to "his son" at Marine Training Base. There was a policy of not only sharing whatever handful of crumbs survived inspection by a particular drill instructor, but an actual intensive heavy preliminary ceremony designed for rending suspected cookie packages into fresh crumbs.

After a number of reported survival failures a certain package survived.

A stack of a dozen + of the large Oreos fit perfectly in a metal tennis ball can, which was inside a larger cardboard box filled with foam peanuts, itself inside a package about the size of a volley ball filled with air pillow packing. Very light weight for the size, and capable of withstanding considerable trauma. At least they didn't run over it with a truck or introduce ballistic testing.

Good luck with your package design.

Get some of "Sadie's Salsa" not from New York City. They ship to anywhere.
My link didn't work . www.sadiessalsa.com

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