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well i plan on using them as well, but dont like the costs of their kits, if you have a few reptiles to ship it's not saving much money casue the kit + shipping, is about the same as normal shipping was thru fedex anyway, if you guys use your own shipping means how do you do it? with live reptiles posted all around the outside or what??

most problems can be avoided if shippers would follow bill clinton's advice "don't ask - don't tell".

if you insist on following the law to the letter then you have two choices:
A) ship airport to airport on delta dash or other airlines
B) don't ship at all

would be nice if there were other options.robin at SYR.com told me that he hopes that UPS at some point in time will change there policy about snakes,we'll see.

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Originally Posted by shadraak

well i plan on using them as well, but dont like the costs of their kits, if you have a few reptiles to ship it's not saving much money casue the kit + shipping, is about the same as normal shipping was thru fedex anyway, if you guys use your own shipping means how do you do it? with live reptiles posted all around the outside or what??

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Hi, you don't have to buy the kits. You can buy everything individually from SYR or from Superior Enterprises. I believe SYR drop ships from Superior anyway. The boxes say Perishable and have arrows pointing up. You do not need to write anything else on the boxes.

BTW, I have used SYR a few times now, and am very happy with their service. I recommend them to anyone shipping with UPS.

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Originally Posted by Wh00h0069

The boxes say Perishable and have arrows pointing up. You do not need to write anything else on the boxes.

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I may be mistaken but I believe you are still bound by the Lacy Act and have to put the genus and species name on the box. It need not be in huge red ink but I am almost sure it has to be on there somewhere...

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Originally Posted by asplundii

I may be mistaken but I believe you are still bound by the Lacy Act and have to put the genus and species name on the box. It need not be in huge red ink but I am almost sure it has to be on there somewhere...

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Hmmm, I will have to look into that, but until I do I will not write anything on my boxes. If you do write something on your boxes, like "snake inside", then your box will be much more likely that someone will not ship your box.

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Originally Posted by Wh00h0069

Hmmm, I will have to look into that, but until I do I will not write anything on my boxes. If you do write something on your boxes, like "snake inside", then your box will be much more likely that someone will not ship your box.

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IIRC Robyn mentioned something about it on a BOI thread. MAybe we can pull him on to here to answer

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Originally Posted by asplundii

IIRC Robyn mentioned something about it on a BOI thread. MAybe we can pull him on to here to answer

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I just watched the SYR video, and they say to put a live harmless reptile label on the inside of the shipping box, not on the outside. This is if for some reason UPS has to open the box, they will know that there is a reptile inside.

I have shipped 4 boxes out with SYR.

Never once putting a label of whats inside on the OUTSIDE of the box.