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I would pack them in a metal cookie tin with paper towels, to keep them from
bouncing around.

 .. and what's in the brownies?

what are gribs?

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They don't have gribblies on grex, moron.

I would do as Mark suggested.

They'll probably still be good in 3 days, but the sooner they get there, the
better, for sure.

Wrap them like Mark said, take them to the post office, let them know you're
sending food, and they can help you.  I would suggest Priority Mail since it's
guaranteed to arrive in 2-3 days.

Actually, though, thinking about Mark's suggestion, I had two questions:
(1) How do they breathe?
(2) Wouldn't Girl Scouts be more "legal"?

Saw that one coming about twenty years off.

*snort* From the King of Comedy himself.

If it's happyboy sending you the "brownies", be sure to open them in a
ventilated area.  :)

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  And don't even open the package if he offers you "fudge".

re #8 - Priority mail is not guaranteed.  They say it "should" arrive in 
2-3 days, but they do not promise this.  If you want a 3-day guarantee, 
use UPS 3 day service.  It's slightly more expensive than ground 
service, but it is a guaranteed service.  UPS Next Day and 2 day have a 
money back guarantee (if it's not delivered in the specified time, you 
get your money back)

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It's a gribblie laundering scheme, i just know it.

you are not supposed to send food in the US MAIL.

i've heard of someone writing an address on a banana, sticking a stamp on it,
and mailing it. it got delivered.

Re #18: Where'd you hear that, Bruce?

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the only restriction that I'm aware of is you can't send perishable food 
through the US mail, and there are limitataions on sending food overseas 
or to/from Hawaii.

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Not in the same way that, say, meat or fruit is.

My aunt used to FedEx us fresh sourdough bread from San Francisco, on
special occasions.

You can certainly send meat and fruit through the mail, though.  Otherwise
Hickory Farms would be out of business.

I think they mean perishable, as in, likely to perish and generate a 
big stink before they can deliver it.  Mailing cookies is a time 
honored tradition.

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Hickory farms sells cured meats, like sausage.  I think mailing, say, raw
meat would be out of the question.

If you go to http://pe.usps.gov/ and do a search of all documents on
"food", you get a few links that appear to address the issue. I'd post specific
info myself, but it's in PDF files and I can't read those at work.

Zingerman's sends brownies through the mail all the time.  It is definitely
legal, and the brownies come through pretty well.  If I remember right, they
wrap them in plastic which they do not seal all the way, and pack them into
a box full of... I think it was full of the same material they make grass
skirts out of, actually, but styrofoam peanuts or newspaper would've done just
as well.

A key phrase from the USPS's website info:
"Mailable perishable matter may be sent through the mail only ifit can reach
its destination in good condition in the normal transit time between the
mailing and address points. Mailable perishable foods that **do not rapidly
decay or generate obnoxious odors in the mail** may be sent at the mailer's
risk."
(key phrase highlighted)
 
I think their concernis clear. They don't want to be handling some stinky
mail. Brownies don't stink, and when they go bad, they just get inedible, they
don't tend to mold or otherwise violate the USPS's condition.

Golly, I figured out their regulations by pure common sense.  It's nice when
it works out that way.  Sane bureaucracies are a wonderful thing.

Well, when I sent my son cookies, the postal worker mentioned that ir was a
violation of the postal code, but said as long as I didn't tell him it would
be fine.

Sounds like maybe he was pulling your leg.

Only thing I can suggest is to be real careful about anything like those
pesky flour moths.  My grandmother managed to mail some to my parents,
who didn't manage to eradicate them until I had moved away to college,
which somehow meant that I ended up with an infestation of them years
later in my house.  I *think* I'm rid of them, finally, today.

We used to get Omaha Steaks in the mail.  Meat that was frozen, then packed
in dry ice.  By the time the steaks got to us the dry ice was gone or nearly
gone, but the steaks were still totally frozen.  This was 20 years ago.

Those Omaha Steaks are pretty good for frozen meat. 

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