Need to ship your canoe paddle?

Dan Miller

Dan Miller

Midlife Crises
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Just slap on some postage stamps and a customs tag...

Courtesy American Sporting Auctions, who had this on display at the Antique Boat Show in Clayton this past weekend.

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Dear Midlife Crisis Dan,

Thank you so much for posting this. I believe everyone should attempt to try this to see how viable this. Everyone should send me a paddle in this manner. When they start arriving, I will post, in this forum, the results. To further flesh out the test, send only high quality or value paddles so we can evaluate how well the Postal Service treats these beloved items.
 
Provide your mailing address. I may have a precious Beaver Brand paddle to send along. Every now and then a canoe will come with paddles, sometimes antique, more often than not, total junk, and never Shaw and Tenney.
 
Goodness.
When we return from our current trip to Maine/Campobello, I will explore the paddle pile.
With our current Post Office reluctance to even deliver postage, this should be interesting.
 
Hey can I get in on this experiment too ha? I can test the international border mailings, US to Canada.
You can never have too many paddles or canoes.
Gary
 
As a follow up, I want to say that the USPS is not what it used to be. Not one single paddle was delivered. Old Canoes, Old Paddles, Old Post Office, Things are not the same anymore.
 
Don't give up. I dug up a paddle to bring to the post office. It almost made it there several times but I got stymied by their hours. They open at noon. It's also been hunting season. That is slowing down now. My freezer is full, my son's is close, and my sausage plans are now set. At the farm I nearly finished combining the last of the corn yesterday so the fall pressure is finally off. I will visit the post office next week. Details will follow.
 
So.... today I took a precious paddle to the Post Office to investigate mailing it. Sandon, watch for a paddle in the mail. Much to my surprise, our Adams Basin postmaster sold me a sticker for my paddle, made a few measurements, weighed it and charged me a small fortune in postage before making it vanish behind the counter. Initially he wasn't too sure he could mail it, but that did not keep him from trying.
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Andre Cloutier said:
I'm sure that adhesive will just fall right off. Did you sign it 'Master Mike'? Is that still de rigueur?
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There is a high likelihood that the labels will fall off of this beautiful "oar."
Why do you "canoe people" call oars paddles? Don't you know what they are?
I can't recall how I came to own this thing? It must have come with a canoe I bought. I had a pair of them. I can guarantee that the shipping cost was far more than I ever would have considered paying for it.
 
That's simply amazing. I literally slapped a sticker on that and the postmaster added one of his own.
Not quite on par with a shipment to/from Canada, but nevertheless, pretty damned cool. And there you have it, you can ship a paddle.
Merry Christmas.
 
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