I am trying to determine if it is warm enough to ship geckos. I have an account with UPS and recently emailed them to ask what hub a gecko package (next day delivery) would go through from Portland to the US east coast. When I did not get an answer after a week I emailed Julie, who was much more prompt and informative! Thanks Julie!
However, I also called UPS to see if I could confirm what she said about the hubs, and get on their case about not answering my email. After taking to a bonehead or two I finally spoke with a supervisor. Even he was not too forthcoming or didn't understand my question (I don't see why the question is hard to understand!). But he finally told me that overnight shipments all go in containers. They would not stop at a hub except maybe briefly if they needed to add more packages to the container.
Though this sounds good, I am sceptical, partly because it was so hard to get any answer out of UPS. It also doesn't seem logistically very likely, though maybe I underestimate their volume and they really can fill most of a container here to any given destination. Also, don't they put live animals somewhere different than the rest of the packages, maybe with air and heat?
So, does anyone have more info on this? Is Jon Boone on the list??
Thanks, Melody
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