I have been frustrated with expensive shipping through our airlines! To ship across the country can cost as much as 200.00 and never under 100.00 for a shipment. This makes things VERY difficult for our herping community.
Currently, our American counterparts are enjoying as lows as 40.00 OVERNIGHT shipping for their herps! AND they deliver to your door!
It's no surprise that America's proliferation of morphs and quality herps is far greater than ours! So I made a few phone calls to FedEx and other popular couriers, but to no avail. They either WONT touch live cargo or else herps in specific!
I accidentally stumbled across this article at fuana classifieds:
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/for....php/t-189.html
This fellow had the entire UPS management in his state bending over backwards trying to help him ship snakes, in specific. At that point in time they would ship most reptiles but NOT SNAKES. The reasoning was primarily the human innate phobia of them. His main angle was opening their eyes to the larger sales volumes they could incite by opening the doors to the snake community. He was surprisingly successful in his delegations with UPS!
This is a good sign.
Let me know what you Canadian guys think about this. If we could start couriers accepting snakes and other herps at competative prices our small Canadian community would ignite like a flame in a gasoline factory. And could we even HOPE to break down some of the walls stopping States/Canada shipping? One can only hope!
Some of the larger Canadian herp associations could start to shake the tree a bit with the big names in courier services.
OR!
If we started up a larger national association with members being smaller regional associations we could attack and coordinate the issues on all fronts! We would finally have a unified voice and a considerable sales mass in which to affect changes!
Sooner or later the world leaders would bend to our every wishes!
Is it just me, or does this sound exciting to everyone else?
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