I would ship on the monday before Thanksgiving but it would depend on the weather. I pretty much plan on not making any shipments in december and january. I have seen that the shippers are so busy with bigger volume during december that they miss seeing which packages are priority overnight more often then. Shipping works good if you just plan on the shipper to screw something up and do not give them the chance to make the mistake or delay a serious one. With a heat pack and small airholes in an insulated box a snake can do fine for 48 hours in the box. Longer than that in cold weather can be a problem. I actually worry more about customer satisfaction than the welfare of the snake if the package gets delayed for just one day and the weather is not extreme.



>>So, what about the holidays?

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>>I have someone putting one of our babies on hold and wants to receive her (weather permitting) near Thanksgiving. I was thinking monday for tuesday arrival would be okay, but nothing past that for the week.., it looks like Fedex doesnt deliver on Thursday, so Weds should be out too..

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>>Also, I know they don't guarantee timely arrival around Christmas Time (unfortunately found this out trying to get my license overnighted so I could fly... it showed up a week later). How many weeks before Christmas do you not ship? How many weeks after?

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

>>1.0 06 TH-Moonglow - "Gargamel"

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

>>2.7 08 BRBs

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