I am interested in replicatiing your heat pack tests. How have you run your tests? Taping the heat packs to the tops of the boxes? I have always heard that heat rises, so if we want to heat a box, why not tape it to the bottom of the box? Seriously? I am wondering here whether it is my heat packs, because of what I've done, and/or how I position the heat pack in my overnight shipments. Seriously I usually place the 40 hour heat pack right between the two 16 oz deli cups which are packed with paper towel strips (sometimes moistened) to cushion the animals on their flight. Using a 16 oz deli cup allows the ~4" animals I ship room to thermoregulate.
After my first couple shipments I always enclose a min-max to monitor the critters.
In a message dated 9/13/03 1:58:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The temps-in-transit have been recorded by an enclosed Radio Shack min-max digital thermometer.
I have run
my own tests and have produced the high temp spikes with the 40hr RLD packs.
Their 60hrs are as solid as a rock at about 100F for about three days. Everyone
should test their heat packs so they can get the right combo with their packing
style.
In Seattle there is a fellow at the SeaTac airport who is responsible for live animal shipments.
This person is a USPS employee.
Elizabeth
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