When mailing these coupons, do they have to be mailed in sets of five, or can I mail ten or more together?

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A friend of mine helps at a paper recycling collection spot once a month and has been able to score (snatch) some "boxes with planes". She hopes that this summer will even be better, now that the boxes are out in all the stores.

Dumpster Diver Gal is what I call her.

The truth is I envy her and she promised to let me tag along this summer.

sbrunton: According to the folks at Kellogg's (800-962-1413), you can send in any number as long as it's a multiple of 5. (I sent in 15 last week, but they haven't posted yet.)

Has anyone seen them in Austin, Texas? I have checked every store imaginable with no luck! (For corn flakes that is ...) The real expensive cereals are there but one can only eat so much Granola!

I did receive my 5000 points from AA. It took seven weeks.

Also, Safeway grocery stores put the 18 oz Corn Flakes on sale for $2.00 about once a month. If you have the Safeway card, there is no limit to the number of boxes you can buy.

What Walmarts in west side of Rochester, ny carries Kelloggs corn flakes or any of the airplane cereals ? Wegmans is so expensive?

Just bought 19 boxes of 12oz Corn Flakes at my local Walmart - $1.48 per box.

Papollo:

Just curious. What's your milage total to date from Kellogs?

With this purchase, 30,000+ miles. But, most have not yet posted...

Papollo,

The next question then is, what are you going to do with 300 boxes of Corn Flakes?

I've managed to "dispose" of them. Some have gone to neighbors, others to co-workers. I've done some cooking using recipes from the www.kelloggs.com website. The bulk have gone to a local food pantry. They are most appreciative, and can use all I can give them.

Oddly enough, nobody in my house likes Corn Flakes. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif I buy other Kelloggs cereal for our own consumption. Try their Just Right - it's really good, but pricey.

Even at the lowest price I have seen posted of $1.29 you would still need to buy 250 boxes to get enough miles for a RT in the US. That's $322.5 not including tax which doesn't strike me as being a particular bargain for a RT ticket within the US.

Unless one is actually going to eat all this cereal anyway and doesn't mind storing it the promotion doesn't seem worth it. Am I missing something? I hope so, as even though I don't eat the stuff the shelves here are replete with 12oz boxes for $1.42 at local Schnucks stores.

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MVIC -- You are missing something.When buying boxes in bulk I'm sure most of us are donating them to a local food bank.It may cost a little more for the free ticket, but at least some others less fortunate are also benefitting.

Thanks Sydneyjb. The benefits aren't necessarily monetary. It's fun to collect miles this way, and it goes to a good cause.
And, I hope to use the miles for a trip for my family and myself.

I was a subject in a WSJ story about collecting miles in this way. What a rush http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Even with the lowest price of $1.29 you would be better off donating money directly to the food bank (having volunteered in one in Chicago for 4 years I would imagine that in most cases the money would be far more useful to them than cornflakes) and buying your ticket in the vast majority of instances. Not putting people down for trying to do something good (nor making any assumptions either) just trying to see if this is worth participating in. Still don't see the point unless you would be buying the cornflakes anyway.


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