My experience with Airborne is this--if you don't put an amount that you want to
insure the shipment for, they'll accept it. You can put "Live Reptiles" on the
box and on the airbill, but if you try to put an insurance amount on the
airbill, you'll get turned down on the shipment. It's really "at your own
risk". I've never used UPS or FedEx for shipping my animals, but I've received
them via these carriers.
Chris
Greg Watkins-Colwell wrote:
> 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
>
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> Dept. of Biology
> Sacred Heart University
> 5151 Park Avenue
> Fairfield, CT 06432
>
> and
>
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> Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology
> 170 Whitney Ave
> PO Box 208118
> New Haven, CT 06520-8118
> Fax 203-432-3758
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