In Reply to: Breeder input on shipping posted by mrglider on June 26, 1999 at 01:20:16:

If it isn't illegal, it should be. I've heard of people getting gliders shipped ups but not usps. Even so, that's too darn long in a box. The breeder that I got my babies from only shipped where it was less than six hours and in a plastic crate, pretty large, with lots of ventilation. They had to be kept at certain temp etc. And it was EXPENSIVE but I wouldn't have dreamed to doing it any other way. 24 hours in a box is inhumane. They're not mailing fruit cake for gosh sakes.

O.K. this has got to be the icing on the cake.
: Is this legal? Or am i ignorant?
: I heard there is no dumb questions just uninformed persons.
: I do ship when the weather permits but NEVER would i ship a baby or even a grown glider through the U.P.S. or the U.S.P.S.
: I just keep thinking thats why they put the styrofoam things in the fragile boxes cause they throw them around.They can't be as efficient as they are by
: being very carefull with everything.It's fast work the mail really moves.
: I say it's illegal
: YEAS?
: NEAS?
: JUst a friendly survey so we all can be informed :>)

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