Packing 40 Eggs in a Small Flat Rate Box PICTURES

[asher]

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Great idea. Too bad it's illegal. You agree to USPS terms when using those supplies and that is to ONLY use them for priority. Yes, even if it's already been used in shipping previously. You can "recycle" by using it again, but again, only using it for priority mail.

Seems a lot don't know (or don't care?), but turning any priority envelopes, boxes, etc. inside out and using them for something other than priority is against USPS rules and regulations. Those supplies are given free from USPS b/c they are included in the cost of shipping priority.

Thankfully USPS is now printing some things on the inside so people cannot keep doing this, but I guess if you wrap it in paper, they won't see it. Just don't complain when they open your package and then confiscate it and/or majorly delay it so that your buyer ends up with a box of rotten eggs and a fee for the remainder of shipping above what you paid that it should cost you for priority.

 

[asher]

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NOPE! SORRY WRONG!

 

[joebryant]

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That'd be an awfully BIG maybe. She's awfully pig headed, stubborn, and too lazy to get up early to milk and milk again after fixing dinner. What's a born-in-Kentucky country boy supposed to do with some city girl like her when he wants a little Jersey milk cow, fresh milk, and chruned butter? Take a belt to her? Sighhhh... My life is a desert!

I can think af a few optjions.... One being MILK THE COW YOURSELF!!!!

Poor, poor man.

Say WHAT!

No self-respecting farmer would (should) do THAT, but thanks for the kind words of deserved sympathy for my plight.

 

[warmfuzzies]

I know... I am married to a self respectin' farmer (though he would not appreciate being called that- farmers own fields, ranchers own cows- ladedadeda.... Heard it all before.... we own neither right now...

Working on the cows though.)

Anyway, he would not milk a cow either. But I don't know any self respectin' farmers that gather eggs or butcher chickens either.... that is also for your wife to do!!

 

[warmfuzzies]

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Great idea. Too bad it's illegal. You agree to USPS terms when using those supplies and that is to ONLY use them for priority. Yes, even if it's already been used in shipping previously. You can "recycle" by using it again, but again, only using it for priority mail.

Seems a lot don't know (or don't care?), but turning any priority envelopes, boxes, etc. inside out and using them for something other than priority is against USPS rules and regulations. Those supplies are given free from USPS b/c they are included in the cost of shipping priority.

Thankfully USPS is now printing some things on the inside so people cannot keep doing this, but I guess if you wrap it in paper, they won't see it. Just don't complain when they open your package and then confiscate it and/or majorly delay it so that your buyer ends up with a box of rotten eggs and a fee for the remainder of shipping above what you paid that it should cost you for priority.

I wondered about this....

 

[geareduplyn]

I grew up on a Kansas farm. The males in my family, myself included, never had any problem with doing anything if it needed doing. I can't imagine my Grandmother or Mother getting up and going out to do the milking and the other chores. They were in the house making breakfast so we could eat and go right back out to work. I consider myself a farmer. Take a look at my tractor pictures. I've been doing it a while.

 

[joebryant]

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Now THERE'S a woman after my heart. I've been trying for forty-four years to get a woman, any woman, to agree that milking the family cow is the farmer's wife's job. I'm gonna frame that reply and hang it on the kitchen wall.

 

[warmfuzzies]

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Weeeelllll There's a difference between doing it if it needs doing, and getting it KNOWING you'll have to do it!! I am sure he wouldnt let a poor cow needing milking wait.

That would be why we don't have a milk cow. DH knows he would have to do it sometimes.

Along with the fact that we really, really dont need 10 gallons of milk a day.

 

[AHappychick]

Being just me I do what ever needs doing be it the cooking or the "building and fixing" and farming (I have what I call my mini farm) in fact I put in 5 new fruit trees today

as for moo cows well... I actually traveled to Michigan to milk a cow, well I also visited a friend but the trip started when I was complaining that no one would let me milk one around here. (not like there are many farms but none the less) anyway there is a farm school where she lives and I took my ds and we went for a few days and YES I milked a cow for the first time. It was not as hard as I thought it would be lol. I have pics as evidence

Anyway btw geareduplyn wishing there were men like you around here

 

[warmfuzzies]

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Now THERE'S a woman after my heart. I've been trying for forty-four years to get a woman, any woman, to agree that milking the family cow is the farmer's wife's job. I'm gonna frame that reply and hang it on the kitchen wall.

I also build shelves and nest boxes and plant gardens, herd cows, (When I have too, I am a little bit scared of them....

) Fix anything that needs fixin', hunt deer for the freezer.... etc etc etc....

Sorry everyone, i'm taken!