I am 100% with Robyn on this one.
Yes, it is free and relatively pain-free to get Fedex Certified. But, for us non-business folks who are trading one to two snakes per year like 8-year-olds trading pokemon cards, it's just not a cozy thing to have to declare ourselves a business. This is where SYR comes in handy. Also, if there's any way we can band our accounts together to get mega-shipping-discounts, then SYR also comes in handy.
There is NO difference between some bonehead shipping a cobra through SYR and shipping said cobra via their own personal Fedex Cert on the effect it will have on other individual accounts shipping reptiles via Fedex. If Fedex gets a knee-jerk reaction to safeguard their employees from a venomous snake, all our accounts will be pulled regardless of whether the cobra got shipped via SYR or somebody's own Cert.
So yeah, you guys. Here's one company who is trying to provide a great service to our community and you shoot them down with your pessimism... good job.
Robyn, THANK YOU for your hard work. I got my SYR account, I just haven't been able to use it yet... I shipped my one and only snake trade of the year right after SYR stopped shipping snakes! Looking forward to finally being able to use it! Well, that is, if I'm even going into breeding this year...
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