CostPlus in their early days sold loose teas out of glass jars.
Normally there would be somebody in front of me ordering 1oz lots from
every tea on the shelf. I'd come back hours later and the lids and
jars were still seperated on the shelves. The lids simply got paired
up with the nearest jar. There is no guarantee a website handles it's
tea any differently.

Jim

Bluesea wrote:
> To be honest, I might check expiration dates out of habit as I'm one
of
> those who read labels almost compulsively. In the store that I
mentioned,
> the small selection (a narrow shelf) of boxes were paper and
cellophane,
> contained teabags, and the store's main business is coffee and
tobacco. I
> asked the clerks if they knew anything about the teas and they looked
at
> each other and replied, "no." I'd bet that the only flush they knew
was of
> the toilet kind. Hence, my decision to walk out and forego looking at
the
> loose teas which were in glass apothecary-type jars.
>
> --
> ~~Bluesea~~