Re: [Killietalk] shipping

["Mark & Peta" <mbethke at socal_rr.com>]

Greetings, Lorraine, Since Dave choose you as the Liaison on this subject I
hope you don't mind relaying this message. Mail isn't as failsafe as one
might think. There is a reason they sell insurance. But being that as it
may, most packages do get thru. Just keep it as inconspicuous as possible. I
had a problem with a mail carrier in Sabah Borneo ("the land beneath the
wind", whatever that ment) anyways i finally wrapped it to look like a
biohazard shipment complete black/yellow caution tape and a big warning
label with the wrath of God or something like that.It finally made it, that
was in the late 80's not in the post "911" era.
Anyways , if you ship with a label saying " specimens for scientific study
no commercial value" they usually won't bother it, and if they do all it
would be is a sample/. good luck mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lorraine" <overall077 at lycos_com>
To: "'killifish discussion list'" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:48 AM
Subject: RE: [Killietalk] shipping


> I use the one rate global priority mail envelopes. The eggs are in a Petri
> dish inside a padded envelope, inside the priority envelope.
> Worldwide shipping costs $5, $4 to Canada. The longest my eggs have taken
to
> arrive is 10 days and that was to Israel.
>
>
> Lorraine
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: killietalk-bounces+overall077=lycos_com at aka.org
> [mailto:killietalk-bounces+overall077=lycos_com at aka.org] On Behalf Of
David
> Ramsey
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:42 AM
> To: killifish discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] shipping
>
> Could you explain exactly how you package eggs to ship to these countries?
> Are you using envelopes, yellow padded envelopes, boxes, what. I ask
because
> only about 1/2 of what I send to South America, Spain, Portugal never
> arrives. What does takes about 3 weeks no matter how I ship. Europe takes
> about 2 weeks, meaning I mail out a lot of what arrives as 'small
quantities
> of peat or a mop', ie eggs long ago hatched.
> David Ramsey  Lawrenceville, GA
> djramsey at earthlink_net
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Curtis Smith" <cskillies at hotmail_com>
> > I have shipped eggs over most of the world - all of Europe, Japan,
Taiwan,
> > Russia, Lithuana, Argentine and Brazil and never have had any problems
> > getting them there.   In fact, they usualy get my eggs well before I
> receive
> > theirs, except for Brazil.   I usually put "spagham fibers for
scientific
> > research" on the customs form you are required to place on foreign mail.
> > That's a true statement because they do have to do some research to see
if
> > there are good eggs.
> >
> > Curt Smith
>
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