I do a few hazmat shops and I mail food items to a food pantry in the zone 5 area; sometimes I send a bag of rice, sometimes candy, sometimes water, etc. I was out doing MS yesterday and my security alarm goes off at my house. I look and see cops are knocking on my door. I contact them and ask what they needed because I could not even guess since I don't do anything for cops to come looking for me. Come to find out, the food pantry contacted the cops in my area to tell me not to send them anything anymore. The shop's instruction state we can send to food pantries. After this, I would suggest not doing it. I never had cops called on me for sending to a food pantry. I found out after I get to my second job that the cops had gone looking for me at my second job. I guess you can imagine my surprise!
I've tried sending to "For Sale" house addresses I find on the internet but when they are returned to me, I feel crazy because I am sure my mail woman wonders why all these boxes are returned to me.
If the businesses I use to send these packages are doing their jobs, the packages wouldn't ever be mailed. But, that's not how it's working right now.
So, how do you all handle sending to zone 5?
Shopping Arkansas, Louisiana, & Mississippi.