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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