X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 20:03:35 -0400 From: Better Bee <[log in to unmask]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "L-Soft list server at University at Albany (1.8c)" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: UpS Shipment of Package Bees. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We just received what may be the first ever shipment of packaged bees by United Parcel Service. An experimental package with double screening was shipped next day air from Georgia at 5 P.M. Arrived at 11A.M. at Betterbee in New York in excellent condition - no dead bees and little evidence of heat stress although the morning here was on the cool side. How they would fare is they were in a U.P. S truck all day on a really hot day is another question. At least UPS is willing to ship them for the first time, and given the postal service's record of package destruction, it is good to finally have an alternative. Incidentally, the UPS driver seemed very nonchalant about it ( the screening hides the bees) until we told him he had been riding around with 12,000 bees.