Drop them off at a Fed-Ex manned location, scheduling a pickup will increase your shipping cost. Also it will increase the amount of stress and travel time your snake has. Even if you have to drive 15-20 minutes to drop your snake off it's better for them and your customer. the other thing is that by dropping them off at the latest time you can.. So for example for me the last pick up for my area via truck is 3PM but my local drop off cuts off at 6:30pm so by dropping it off at 6PM the snake spends 3 hours less in the box and it still arrives at the same time.
X2. Great post!
Wrong area to skimp on. I don't even allow the snakes I order to hit the truck. I pick them up right at the World Service Center hub in my area.