Many places such as the UPS stores, etc say they cant ship live reptiles etc, but if you pick up the UPS rules book you must have an account set up for shipping live animals, but no mamals, birds, etc, yet USPS will ship birds, why? Who knows.
I know this one all to well, a good friend ahs a herp business online, he uses multiple shippers sometimes, we have both argued with a few of their operators many times about their own rules and his "account to ship live reptiles", by the way its in paper, from them an agreement. They state anywhere in the continental US as an overnight delivery.
About shipments getting there late, I had a bearded dragon sent to me in winter from Alabama, the guy had no good insulation to use in the box, he had no heat packs, he sent it in shredded paper, on a bag of rice, the shipment went on a truck by accident even though it was specified "overnight air delivery by 10:30 am on the top, it went right past PA and straight to northern New York. The box was lost in New York in the coldest part of winter, they found it after 5 working days had past as well a 3 day holiday weekend. The box went on an airplane and showed up finally 1.5 weeks or so later.
To my amazement this BD was alive, healthy was dark and cold on top and warm underneath from the rice, tough creature, the temps ranged from 40-24f shows what a healthy reptile can put up with.

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