I have worked for UPS for 18 years and I have never seen package bees come
thru our system.  Now queens are a different story.  I brought an article to
my supervisor that we would ship bees for companies, and he also said the
same about NO shipment of bees in our system.
V Nichols
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: Shipping of Bees


> Hi
> I just received a mailing from Wilbanks and in it they say new postal regs
> prohibit them from mailing packages beyond zone 4. Whether it's really an
> issue of insurance, I don't know, but they aren't doing it. They give a
> list of people to contact that are driving down, if people want to piggy
> back. According to WIlbanks: UPS will take them anywhere, but they don't
> insure and they will charge a lot for it.
> pb
>