Chris Harney wrote:
> Russ Bassett, President of Bassett's Cricket Ranch, called me this
> morning as he had heard of my post on this List about their cricket
> shipments through the postal service being rejected by the airlines.
> The problem at this point is only with Skywest. I'll summarize what he
> told me.
>
> A box of crickets shipped by a competitor was damaged during a flight
> from Fresno to Salt Lake City and crickets were supposedly "crawling on
> passengers". This incident caused Skywest to deny insect shipments
> early this week, which is actually in violation of their contract with
> the postal service which specifically lists crickets as an approved
> item. The directive came from Utah, not Fresno, so it affects all of
> Skywest. The Post Office utilizes other carriers also, so this was just
> a temporary glitch and they've worked around it.
>
> Mr. Bassett got involved immediately to resolve the situation and feels
> that will happen soon, but he's obviously troubled that something like
> this could happen at all. He invited anyone with questions to call him
> at 800-634-2445.
>
> Chris
>
This is great news that Bassett's would take care of this in short order. I
expected nothing less. I think we should all call or e-mail Skywest and tell
them they overreacted to an isolated incident.
Julie Bergman
http://www.geckoranch.com
GGA lifetime member
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