@sandyf wrote:
I have not seen the new rules but if it is allowable you can certainly find some places in zone 5 and above that would love to get donations. I am thinking it makes more sense if you have lots of small toiletry bottles if you do hotel shops. These do not weigh much and a homeless shelter would be happy to have them...a lot of them would fit in under 5 pounds. Food is generally too heavy so I feel the same way myst4au does regarding the food bank...too much work for them to accept all those boxes with one or two cans in each! The 99 cent type stores have big bottles of shampoo , deodorant etc. If you have been purchasing food for the foodbanks for a similar price you could send soap and that sort of thing or send to an animal shelter...they sometimes like to get old blankets and towels. And if each shopper found their own place to send to we would not be overwhelming one address with every shopper's boxes. You can make your neighbors happy by offering to deliver all their old ones for them. Maybe when the new rules are out people in each region can have a thread with names and addresses of a few places like these in their town that those of us far away can send to.
@SoCalMama wrote:
@sandyf wrote:
I have not seen the new rules but if it is allowable you can certainly find some places in zone 5 and above that would love to get donations. I am thinking it makes more sense if you have lots of small toiletry bottles if you do hotel shops. These do not weigh much and a homeless shelter would be happy to have them...a lot of them would fit in under 5 pounds. Food is generally too heavy so I feel the same way myst4au does regarding the food bank...too much work for them to accept all those boxes with one or two cans in each! The 99 cent type stores have big bottles of shampoo , deodorant etc. If you have been purchasing food for the foodbanks for a similar price you could send soap and that sort of thing or send to an animal shelter...they sometimes like to get old blankets and towels. And if each shopper found their own place to send to we would not be overwhelming one address with every shopper's boxes. You can make your neighbors happy by offering to deliver all their old ones for them. Maybe when the new rules are out people in each region can have a thread with names and addresses of a few places like these in their town that those of us far away can send to.
I love this idea.
@IMTrashman wrote:
No idea WTF X & Y are but hope to find out PDQ who the new MSC is.
@Summit Scheduling wrote:
The latest word I have gotten (about 10 minutes ago) is that the survey won't be done before the 24th.
Glad I could help. I live a half mile from the ocean so one direction does not work for me. My local phone as I still have a plug in phone, only allows free calls for a certain number of miles. I always thought I should only pay 3/4 of the phone bill as I can access 3/4 as many locations for free. Also my driving to shops range only works in 3 directions and not 4. Perhaps I can arrange to send a box of krill to the whales that pass by for my C shops.@walesmaven wrote:
sandyf,
Thanks for the laugh. I needed that today. I cannot count the times that folks (not on the forums) have tried to address me as something to do with whales! Heck, I cannot even swim.
@sandyf wrote:
As of today there are still some outstanding jobs in my area for the old current company to finish up. I got an unheard of bonus (for us big city folk where bonuses usually run .25-.50 cents but mostly just a plea for help) on the last C shop left in my 20 mile zone. Of course in one direction the only place I could mail to is the whales. Not you walesmaven, you are too far away.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
She got back with me a few minutes ago and I signed up with the company. Yay!
@arywen wrote:
@JASFLALMT wrote:
She got back with me a few minutes ago and I signed up with the company. Yay!
Who is the new company? I have been searching
@myst4au wrote:
Jobs with the MSC have not been posted yet, and apparently will not be posted until late February. So, searching will continue to be fruitless. Contact the scheduler, and she will tell you. Couldn't be much easier than that.@arywen wrote:
@JASFLALMT wrote:
She got back with me a few minutes ago and I signed up with the company. Yay!
Who is the new company? I have been searching