No Deposit No Return Amended

The great Non-Rev Water Deposit Scam
In Oregon, bottled water bottles carry a 5 cent deposit.  You can see a reference to it on the label of water bottles.

So while downing one of the Fry's 500 ml bottles I think back on the Seinfeld episode where Kramer and Newman come up with a plan for driving a mail truck to Michigan full of Cans for deposit return...hysterical episode.

You can click on the picture to view the episode. But the premise is that Newman comes up with a method to solve the logistics of driving a mail van full of cans to Michigan to get the 5 cent deposit. Mayhem reigns, as typical in Seinfeld.

What occurs in my warped mind is that the formula is altered when you consider the water bottle. I looked it up and the average weight of a 500 ml drinking bottle is only 12.7 grams. So, if I were to fill luggage that could hold 50 pounds of squashed water bottles, in theory I could get 1785 water bottles into 1 piece of luggage. Testing would be required.  That math says that for each piece of luggage I could slip  non-rev on a flight to Oregon, at 5 cents a bottle, I could achieve deposits of 89.25 in Oregon.

Now, the flight to and from Oregon is about 6 hours round trip, adding an hour to get a city bus to a recycling center and getting the deposit, that means about $11.17 an hour. You would have to also figure the time allocated to accumulate the water bottles and squashing them.

However, this formula gets better when you add in what you could fit on your carry on, and if you get a bit bigger piece of luggage, etc.  Come on readers out there, help me max the profit on this.

"Newman (nca), you magnificent bastard, you did it!"

Cheers, nca

p.s. Seinfeld was one of my all time favorite sitcoms. Barney Miller was right there. 2 and 1/2 Men was pretty funny, but the raunchy level is heavy. Check out episodes of Fawlty Towers on U-Tube also...very funny.