Do you really think that the average shelter wants dozens of very large boxes to appear, each with three pounds of pasta? The storage effort and the cost to dispose of the boxes would mount up. I have been of the belief that the current MSC had to have had an arrangement with the food banks they used to cover the disposal costs for the packing and boxes. I would never consider shipping mostly empty, very large boxes with goods of very nominal value to food banks or homeless shelters without their permission.
As far as small toiletry bottles, I travel a lot. Years ago, I took some of the small hotel bottles of shampoo, conditioner, lotion, etc. to a homeless shelter and they would not take them because they often do not come with tamper proof seals. That made sense to me. Out of curiosity, I just weighed a small bottle of lotion (1.7 fluid ounces) and it weighed 2.4 ounces. So, to get to 3 pounds of contents (48 ounces), I would need 20 bottles of the same size and weight. I have 20 of them. They take up less volume than one box of pasta. And they are liquids, so a truthful answer to the HazMat question about liquids would lead to issues as well. And then I would need something to put into the second box.
I think that we may be creating issues by speculating about what the new rules might turn out to be.
@SoCalMama wrote:
@Robin2 wrote:
I don't think receiving and consuming food from people met in a forum is a good idea, folks. Please take care.
I never intended to do that.
My intention was to have people list shelters, and the shoppers could ship there directly, but it went in a different direction.
Plus, I have already been stalked by a shopper. I don't need that again.
Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008