Shipping cigars

[Legends of the Playground]

Moving is on. The movers come on Monday. And then I'm out of here on the 14th. But I have a question...

I have a guy in Seattle willing to store my stuff until I get down. He has a walk in. But I'm wondering, should I send it all in one large cooler or break it down into smaller boxes. Both have pros and cons...

Cooler:
Good - Very sturdy and better able to hold some humidity
Bad - All my eggs are in one basket

Boxes:
Good - Split up the boxes and minimize the (small) chance of having them go missing
Bad - Not as sturdy and prone to some humidity loss. Probably more expensive too.

What would you do?

 

[GuyMcBeerdrinker]

send small boxes. as you said: all or nothing.

a cooler going across the border might draw some attention.

 

[Mikes]

i say put el dente bands over all of the cuban bands.... and then have all cgars in one place and boxes in another. then when u get past the checkpoint you can take the 2nd band off and put the gars back in their boxes. alot of work i guess...

 

[Legends of the Playground]

The only problem with the El Dente bands is that I don't have them. And I can't get them in time to do that.

 

[Anastasis]

How'd you get them up there in the first place? The customs in Alaska a little more loose than the continental US?

 

[Legends of the Playground]

Shipped out boxes today. I decided to split them up to take the danger out of losing one large cooler rather than several medium boxes.

Alaska customs probably isn't, I've just been lucky. If I was only driving from two places in the Continental US, I would have taken them with me.