Mountian House shortages

Many people have said that they are having difficulty recently ordering dehyd. foods manufactured by Mountian house foods. Well I found out why. A friend of mine owns a local "survival store" he is the local distributor for MH products. Tuesday he recieved a certified letter from MH. The letter said. ( Not work for word but you'll get the idea) " We at mountian house foods regret to inform our customers that due to our commitment to fufill a contract with the government, we will not be able to fill any orders to individuals, dealers,suppliers, at this time. We are sorry for the inconvenience and we do value our customers here at Mountian house foods. It is our hope to be able to complete our government contract by the middle of March 2011. We will at that time resume taking and filling non-governmental orders. Again we apologize for any issues/problems this has caused and appreciate your understanding and look forwars to future business"

I'm wondering just what kind of contract they are filling,?. My friend tried to find out and MH refused to elaborate.

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Originally Posted by OS

I'm wondering just what kind of contract they are filling?

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Sounds to me like a big one. But that's just a guess on my part.

Maybe there's been a problem with other suppliers and MH have stepped in to fulfill a commitment.

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Originally Posted by Rick

Sounds to me like a big one. But that's just a guess on my part.

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That's why you got a boatload of thingies. You think outside the box.

(shrug) I try.

A month ago I ordered 8 #10s to take advantage of a sale. I was informed that they were on back order and only yesterday they notified me that the order has shipped.

wonder if anyone can find out what dept. ordered it. I suppose that the rest can just buy what they can when they can. mwp

I got my order it from Epicenter.

well; we've sent a huge amount of relief supplies (20,000,000lb according to one source) to Pakistan since the flooding, including food (56,000 packaged rations among it) which would have had to have been outsourced to companies with suitable facilities.

North korea (to which we are a major relief contributor, all tensions aside) is experiencing major flooding this season as well. I am not up on the extent of major disasters recent or ongoing but i'm sure there are many more.

I'm surprised Mt. House is filling a government order when the feds have so many contracts out there with MRE manufacturers.

i would suppose they have a contract which requires dehydrated food.

When the hell is our govt. going to think of IT'S people before the rest of the world. I find it hard to believe that we are now sending freeze dried foods to other countries! What happened to all those bags of beans and rice????? More likely the govt. is stock pileing food for when the economy tanks and we are (you are) standing in food lines. Or perhaps to feed the politicians fat asses.

Hey, OS - Can you confirm with him that it was the government? I've read several articles on the net that proclaim it's just demand and that Oregan Freeze Dry can't keep up with it. According to those reports they are NOT selling to the government.

We've gone from bullets to bacon and bread I guess.

A lot of people are concerned, and are putting up food. It seems only natural that freeze dried would be in high demand.

That makes a lot more sense to me that the gov't. scooping up gillions of cans of freeze dried beef stroganoff.

It's that evil Glen Beck, telling all those poor people that they should have a years worth of food stored! Pure evil, I tell you!!! LOL

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Originally Posted by Rick

Hey, OS - Can you confirm with him that it was the government? I've read several articles on the net that proclaim it's just demand and that Oregan Freeze Dry can't keep up with it. According to those reports they are NOT selling to the government.

We've gone from bullets to bacon and bread I guess.

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Rick, according to Earl ( my friend who owns the store) after talking to the rep at MH he deals with. Mountian House is indeed filling a contract for the U.S. Govt. The rep would not confirm what agency/department the contract is with just that they expect to be busy doing so until as the letter said sometime in March.

Well, at least we'll be eating well at the FEMA camps.

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Originally Posted by crashdive123

Well, at least we'll be eating well at the FEMA camps.

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You know - I'll bet if this was posted on some of the more "out there" boards, we'd be reading stories with a headline something like "Government Readies FEMA Camps - Food For The First 1,000,000 Detainees Being Stockpiled".

As far back as I have been buying Mountain House there have been claimed to be shortages. It could very well be a marketing scam or a way to cover up for a poor shipping department that takes forever to to fill orders and make you feel lucky you got it at all. I buy mine from local stores and at lower rates than online and paying shipment. The only time I have seen the shelves empty was when I left the store.

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Originally Posted by Alaskan Survivalist

The only time I have seen the shelves empty was when I left the store.

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That is Funny................I buy it at Sam's Club.

The world ended today. Everyone meet as AS's house. News at 6:00

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Originally Posted by Rick

The world ended today. Everyone meet as AS's house. News at 6:00

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Can't. He's out on night maneuvers.

Well that's just great. We'll have to stand around until he gets back. Do you know how cold it is at his place? Dang it!

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Originally Posted by Rick

Well that's just great. We'll have to stand around until he gets back. Do you know how cold it is at his place? Dang it!

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Then let's hang out at sourdough's place, while we wait.....he's got booze!:detective:

Not any more. He drank it all. He was afraid it would freeze. Besides, have you seen his out house?

We could wait at ND's place, but then there's that whole not wearinf shoes in the snow thing.

That's it. I'm just staying home. It's too cold to get out anyway. You just watch, with the world ending there won't be anything good on TV.

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Originally Posted by crashdive123

We could wait at ND's place, but then there's that whole not wearinf shoes in the snow thing.

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Yeah....and come to think of it, I think I'll go to Ken's instead. It's closer, and I'm sure that Ken will have it warm, at his place! LOL


Speaking of which, where is he???

We sent in a dealer application to them last week, they told us they aren't signing up new dealers until late spring. Now we know why.

Just got my order delivered! Woohoo!

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Originally Posted by SARKY

When the hell is our govt. going to think of IT'S people before the rest of the world. I find it hard to believe that we are now sending freeze dried foods to other countries! What happened to all those bags of beans and rice????? More likely the govt. is stock pileing food for when the economy tanks and we are (you are) standing in food lines. Or perhaps to feed the politicians fat asses.

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they do. for the pakistani example, we've contributed about $450 million to the relief effort. that's about $1.45 per citizen and it's a drop in the bucket to what we spend domestically. I haven't got much to my name, but if it's a really big problem i'll personally reimburse your buck-forty-five.

i'd rather see us stop wasting money than stop giving where it helps. i'm willing to bet there'd be more than enough for everybody to earn what they will.

Canid, To stop wasting money, first they must stop spending money they/we don't have! I am just sick and tired of us pissing money away in countries where they quite frankly hate us. Granted their hate for us is irrational as they have been indoctrinated to hate us but then why should I want or need to help a potential enemy?

If, you have a government contract you can say and do as you please. Then, raise the price and no one complains. (as long as the mgrs and the govt's have their azz'z covered). We got a clue. Package your own.

i feel the same frustration, pretty much all the way around the board.
i think 20 million people put out by this flooding are likely to think better of the US, the UN and the other major contributors who have helped put a roof back over their heads, food in their stomaches and/or clothes on their backs in response to the emergency. You don't see the TTP contributing a lot of relief, do you? we could probably use a lot more people asking pakistan that question, come to think of it.

whether we have the money or not, we're spending it. i'm still far happier to see it doing good for people (us and others) than on needless junk.

the fat needs to be trimmed, but not where it's actually needed.

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Originally Posted by Alaskan Survivalist

I buy mine from local stores and at lower rates than online and paying shipment. The only time I have seen the shelves empty was when I left the store.

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Same here my friend sells me any MH or other stuff at his cost. Which means I get the #10 cans for about a dollar a can higher than MH charges, I just don't have to pay the high shipping costs.

I have not seen anything at Fedbizops about an solicitation or an award. Should be there if it was a bid contract. (It may still be there, but my search skills are not that good on the site now that I no longer have the access that I used to).

Well, here's what I read and the reason I asked the question. I don't necessarily put a lot of stock in the web site but he does say he spoke directly with the Sales Mgr at MH via email.

"When asked what the cause for the atypical demand may be, Ms. Cornutt said, “we have nothing concrete, but we believe this is contributing to most of it - Federal reserve talking about buying $600 billion worth of treasury notes, which could de-value the USD, hence causing inflation fears. In addition, we have had many Americans call and express concerns with our current government.”

Though recent reports suggest that US Emergency service agencies, law enforcement and the military have stepped up preparedness efforts, Ms. Cornutt rebuffed rumors that the Federal government may be responsible for acquiring much of the food for emergency services preparations saying, “the Federal Government/FEMA are not making large purchases of our Mountain House #10 cans.”

http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-pr...rtage_12102010

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