Shipping always makes me nervous even though I have not lost a snake in shipping in years. Shipping should always be priority overnight and the buyer should always be home to sign for the box when it arrives. Shipping to large apartment complexes seem to get screwed up fairly often so I recommend "hold for pickup" at the nearest Fedex Kinkos in those cases. Shipping should always be in insulated boxes. Heat packs should be used when overnight temperature at shippers hub airport or destination is forecast to be below 45. Shipping when temperature is below 40 probably should not be attempted in most cases. Heat packs are great but they do produce fumes and so boxes should have some small airholes. Here in Savannah our temperaturees are often too high to use heat packs even when destinations are very cold so I have to sometimes delay shipments. Shipping in high temperatures can be more dangerous than shipping in cold temperatures. Sellers who are not careful about this stuff just piss me off. Just a few of my random thoughts on the subject.



>>get really nervous after shipping a snake until you hear back that they got there okay? I always hate shipping :P

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>>The first snake we ever bought on the internet was DOA, which I think contributes the the anxiousness when I send my own out.

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>>1.1 96, 04 Het Albino - "Suzie" & "Lumpy"

>>0.1 04 Anery Het Snow- "Squelchy"

>>1.0 06 TH-Moonglow - "Gargamel"

>>1.2 01 BRBs- "Gobball", "Larva" & "Tofu"

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