Hi Sue,
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:18:23PM -0700, Sue French wrote:
> Our three year old is DEATHLY allergic (and I say that in its most
> literal sense) to peanuts/tree nuts/eggs, with peanuts being the worst
> offender to date. Anaphalactic shock is not a pleasant experience...
I'm sorry to hear this. Leigh wrote an interesting message before the
last order about how peanuts are grown in rotation with cotton, which
is the crop with highest pesticide use. Thus, the importance of
ORGANIC peanut butter, and a possible explanation for the great
increase in peanut alergies in recent history. (I just thought it was
interesting we had discussed this problem here so recently ;-)
> That said -- is there a way that we can ask MPW to pack the PB separate
> from the rest of the order?
One of the nice things about ordering by the case, is that everything
is essentially pre-packed sepeartely, in it's own box. Mountain
People's simply loads boxes (cases) into their truck, and unloads them
at the delivery point. I have never seen any broken items in the
factory boxes, which is not surprising since the factory packaging is
esigned for stacking on pallets, distance shipping, and warehouse
handling...
> When we used to order peanut butter for my husband from WholeFoods
> (back before we realized how serious the situation was with our son)
> we were forever finding broken/cracked/leaky jars that had dripped
> on the rest of our order...
I assume you were having things shipped UPS, or similar, right?
That's understandable, if they were shipping individual jars of
different stuff together in a box through UPS... ;-)
> If there's an extra handling fee or something like that, we'd be
> happy to foot it.
There is no handling fee at all for Mountain People's shipments.
(Simply a $500 minimum order for a delivery.)
> Or we could just stick with refrigerated items, which I'm assuming
> are packed separately anyway.
I don't know for sure, but I think it might just be a seperate section
of their truck, if they devide the truck into refrigerated and
non-refrigerated sections at all? But like I said, since we are
ordering cases, things are actually packed seperately anyway...
> I'd have to back out the oats and apple juice, but could add some
> other things, so as not to throw the total $$. Thanks --- Sue
I hope you won't decide this is necessary. I'm confident there won't
be a problem, since the peanut butter jars will be secure in their own
box, and individually sealed in glass.
By the way, you mentioned on your order that you might like to split a
second case of apple juice. How many of that case would you want??
We should put that on the SplitList page, since I might be interested
in a bottle or two myself, and some other people might be as well...
Thanks!
-jeb
