if you have an account with UPS you can ship live animals. I believe it's
14-15 a month, but that pricing is going back about 2 years.
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From: Greg Watkins-Colwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Gecko] USPS Shipping in Jeopardy!
> on 4/12/01 3:53 PM, Doug Johnston at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I just wish there were more viable options available!!!
>
> Yeah... it's weird that, for example, AirBorne Express specifically does
not
> allow lizards or snakes, but will allow turtles. UPS doesn't allow
anything
> live (yet, virtually EVERY live specimen shipment I've ever received at
the
> University has come via UPS... including E. coli and various strains of
> Strep!... I can only assume that the supply companies have a deal with
UPS,
> but I don't now how to do that myself).
>
> I've also gotten live shipments via FedEx though... from zoos. With LIVE
in
> big bold letters. So they also seem to have exceptions, but again, I
don't
> know how to get that exception.
>
> chaos.
>
> Greg
>
> --
> Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell
> Dept. of Biology
> Sacred Heart University
> 5151 Park Avenue
> Fairfield, CT 06432
>
> and
>
> Yale Peabody Museum
> Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology
> 170 Whitney Ave
> PO Box 208118
> New Haven, CT 06520-8118
> Fax 203-432-3758
>
>
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