And yes, UPS (AND the post office) will accept lizards and frogs, but not snakes. Probably because their employees might freak if one gets loose in the warehouse. I have known businesses that had UPS herp contracts that forbid snakes, but the local UPS people knew that they were shipping snakes and just "looked the other way". My feeling is that it is done this way to cover themselves if one ever gets loose and causes a problem. Management can tell employees ( and the court if sued) "Hey, we said NO SNAKES and they shipped them anyway - not our fault!". But regardless of why, those are their rules. You can always decide to disregard them - stupid, illogical, or not. You just have to be prepared for the consequences if you are caught. But it seems not worthwhile when there is a legal, approved way to ship snakes (back to the whole FedEx thread).

Actually, I am glad that FedEx makes shippers jump through some hoops. Maybe if they can weed out people who are not willing to ship properly, then they won't have loose snakes incidents, and won't decide to ban us all as being more trouble than we are worth.

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