Shipping bees in '02: 'it's going to be a tricky year, next year!'

摘要

In early October the post office issued a press release stating that it would continue to accept live animals that do not require delivery within a 72-hour period, including earthworms, lizards, snails, crickets, grasshoppers and (package) bees, which can move by ground transportation. They will also continue to accept live animals for which the postage is 3.50 dollar or less using air transportation (queens). And, they will provide limited service for live animals for which the postage is more than 3.50 dollar that require air transportation, such as day-old poultry, adult poultry and queen honey bees (in boxes). The latter, however, will only be available to and from 20 major U.S. airports in only 18 states, within very specific time frames eachday, dealing with only very specific people at these airports and only on week days. So, packages will be mailable, with special handling fees. Queens will be available, via airmail with no problems for a few, but significant problems if mailing more than a few. It gets messier.