ok once again to clarify. the shipper told me that he ships reptiles all the time and uses fed ex solely w/ no problems. and that shipping was 60 but only to add 50 for an even 1800. I didn't know they were shipped usps untill the tracking number did not work for fed ex or ups. i even checked the number like 3 times before i even tried usps and it worked there. I figured nothing i could do at that point but hope they got here fine and they didn't yet def. not worth all this headache though. I bout the pair off a post on the kingsnake classifieds. as far as confiscation goes i mean if they took the package i'd assume they would know they took it atleast vs keep telling me that it should just show up tom. and something could have happened to the scan tag or ppl are just forgeting to scan it. pretty much a worded way of saying idk it's lost.