the_traveler
Engineer
Not to confuse the topic, but there is another time they will mail the tickets for free. If you redeem an AGR award for travel more than 30 days in the future even from a staffed station, AGR will INSIST on mailing you the tickets free of charge. But if you're paying for your tickets, you must pay dlivery!...Unless you're starting from an unstaffed station with no automated ticket machines. Amtrak will then mail the tickets free of charge, provided you're booking more than (IIRC) 5 (or maybe it's 9) days before the train. If it's within that window, Amtrak will mail them but charge an express mail fee.AMTRAK charges to mail tickets.
Go figure!