I bought a new gecko a little while ago, she was shipped via UPS which screwed up and sent her ground instead of overnight mail but to my surprise she survived the 80 to 90 degree heat without food or water for 7 days in the back of a UPS truck. She's a little thin now but at least she's alive moving around and eating. If anyone plans on shipping a gecko through UPS anytime soon I'd advise that you make sure that its an overnight delivery form because if UPS screws up there's nothing that they will do for you. I just wanted to let everyone know what UPS did because it could have cost the life of my gecko.
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My new gecko survived 7 days in a UPS truck
nicoleo
Jun 01, 2005 06:02 PM
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Melinda666
Jun 01, 2005 07:11 PM
Poor little thing. It must have been horrible! Ack, I would have gone berzerk worrying about the poor thing. Glad that the gecko is getting back to normal. Give it lots and lots of tlc.
humpbacks1962
Jun 02, 2005 04:03 AM
They're so resilient! Glad he arrived OK.
Try FedEx next time, I am not a big fan of UPS either.
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milwaukeereptile
Jun 04, 2005 11:21 PM
>>I bought a new gecko a little while ago, she was shipped via UPS which screwed up and sent her ground instead of overnight mail but to my surprise she survived the 80 to 90 degree heat without food or water for 7 days in the back of a UPS truck. She's a little thin now but at least she's alive moving around and eating. If anyone plans on shipping a gecko through UPS anytime soon I'd advise that you make sure that its an overnight delivery form because if UPS screws up there's nothing that they will do for you. I just wanted to let everyone know what UPS did because it could have cost the life of my gecko.
I'm glad she made the trip OK!
In all fairness, you should probably blame the shipper more than UPS. UPS offers free Next Day Air stickers, as well as bright Red shipping forms. If the shipper didn't use any of these and never explicitly stated that it was next day air (and the box didn't say Live reptile... ect), they usually assume it's group. Now I don't know the specifics of what shipping labels were used or how it was shipped, but I find it hard to beleive that a properly marked box would miss that. I always mark the boxes as a reptile and have the red stickers and red shipping labels, I walk in, hand them the box, and walk away, and never had a problem. It's actually against UPS's terms to ship an animal by anything other than Next Day Air...
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