> My advice to you in the future is to alert your local post office > prior to arrival This is good advice. Consider also what day of the week they will be sent and if they might wind up spending a weekend in a post office less than an hour's drive away. Monday shipments are good because they might arrive with no weekend waits. It isn't hard to learn the likely routing of the shipment and to intercept it or check on it along the way -- if you are polite and friendly. If we are expecting a large shipment, I have the Cagary post office watch for them and call me and I drive the extra 60 miles, rather than subject them to an additional handling -- and a day's journey up and down the milk run that feeds our local PO. The PO guys and gals here are really interested in helping get them thru alive in great shape. Regards Allen W. Allen Dick, Beekeeper VE6CFK RR#1, Swalwell, Alberta Canada T0M 1Y0 Internet:[log in to unmask] & [log in to unmask] Honey. Bees, & Art <http://www.internode.net/~allend/>