Of course weather is a key gate, three locations to consider.

1) your ship from area (typically daytime highs)

2) the ship to area (typically nightime lows)

3) the carrier sort facility (always nightime lows) I think Fedex is Memphis





Once weatehr is OK then still another factor to think about, overall timing and likleyhood of delays. I do not ship on holiday weeks. I would be fine wuth the week before Thanksgiving. Or the week after, just not that week.



Also, I always leave an "extra" day for delays. ie I do not ship out on Thursday for Friday arrival. If something were to happen and the package missed a connection, it could end up stuck somewhere over the weekend.



Of course I am overly cautious about shipping but then again, I've not lost one (knock on wood) to shipping!!!





For Christmas, clearly at least a couple of weeks before. Then there's the Christmas and new years holiday weeks. After those I would think it OK to ship again but weather may have other plans. I quite often winter over many babies waiting for good weather.
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Thanks,





Dave Colling



www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com







0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)

0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)



LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:

26.49 BRB

20.21 BCI

And those are only the breeders



lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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