midnitebee wrote:
>
>  I'm sure others would rather
> >handle a package with a return address of "Ted Kazynski".
> >
> >-Mike
> >         Touhe!,and wouldn't you know it,those postal employees,would have
> delivered the package,since the sender paid the postage.  Shall we continue
> with this mindless barage? You can always join an alt.binary group and tell
> post office jokes.Personally,I would rather save the bandwith on this
> listserve,and continue the discussion about the life and times of the apis
> mellifera. You know my e-mail address. Use it,because you are wasting other
> peoples time.My apologies the the group,I will not respond to Mike,unless he
> uses my e-mail address.
 
I have found the comments about the postal services to be quite interesting.  The
way my shipments are handled is very important to me.  Everytime I expect a shipment
I always wonder what to expect.  This year someone along the way put my battery box
of queens in a postoffice letter box strapped it with a plastic band put a label
on it with my address.  Needless to say my post office did not call me and when I
got them from our carrier the comment was "why this isn't priority mail, it's not
insured, in fact there isn't even any postage on this package."  We opened the box
and there was my battery box.  Since they cut off the circulation of air part of
my 60 queens were dead with undetermined damage to the rest.  This affects me as much
as the majority of hive diseases.  I have more stories from other years but will
not waste bandwidth with them.  I just wish UPS or some other service would handle
bee shipments.  I live too far from the queen producers to make the trip to pick them
up.  My suggestion when postal problems occur is make your complaints known to your
postmaster at least.  Most of my problems were created in ignorance by people who
probably meant well.
 
Vic Kroenke  Walnut,Kansas