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Date: | Sun, 11 May 2003 07:46:21 -0400 |
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Yesterday (Saturday) I received here in Maine three Queens shipped
from California. The bees were shipped by Express Mail, and if
everything had gone according to plan I would have picked them up at my
local post office Friday morning. However, something in the system
didn't work and the bees didn't appear as scheduled. I started getting
panicky that her majesties would spend the weekend on a loading dock
somewhere. But the people of USPS had other plans. At 5:45 pm Friday
my daughter took a call that the queens were at a regional post office a
half hour away. I called that PO Saturday morning just after 7 and was
told that the driver headed to my PO had somehow missed the package, but
that the mistake had been realized and the queens put on a truck headed
to a PO 1 town away. I called that PO and was told the driver had been
and gone without leaving my bees. I made several phone calls trying to
track them down without luck. Then at 8:15am I get a call from my local
PO, the Queens had arrived. The driver had taken it on himself (his
time and mileage) to get my bees to right place. I picked them up (all
alive) at 8:30. I think that driver has a jar of honey coming to him
later this summer!
Andrew Dewey
Southwest Harbor, ME
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