Shipping in cold weather.

[loonunit]

Our 38F temp cutoff at SYR is based on daytime highs

Ah! Okay, that opens up a lot more space to work with. It was hard to work with 38F as a low temp---I shipped to 3skulls this fall assuming the animals would go through Memphis, and they went through Indianapolis instead. Which was much colder that particular night. I was totally traumatized until his girlfriend received the package and confirmed that the snakes were both alive and even warm.

[3skulls]

they did great and are still doing great.

[Robyn@SYR]

I was hoping you'd chime in, so thanks!!

We are planning using a 16x16x8 with two heat packs, shipping at 8:30pm to my fedex hub here in Chicago where I will pick up around noon. I'm under the impression that if you ship hub to hub, there is very little time spent exposed to the elements, am I correct? Do you think I should only use one heat pack? He is shipping two adult normals to me.

Hub to hub offers the least amount of temp exposure, correct. I would be hard pressed to use two heat packs. My concern there is that you actually start to court OVERheating, which is a bigger problem than cooling.

Tangent to all of this, but mentioned earlier- FedEx planes are both pressurized and temp controlled for shipments.

[Kaorte]

Hub to hub offers the least amount of temp exposure, correct. I would be hard pressed to use two heat packs. My concern there is that you actually start to court OVERheating, which is a bigger problem than cooling.

Tangent to all of this, but mentioned earlier- FedEx planes are both pressurized and temp controlled for shipments.

Yeah I hear ya about the over heating. Well, I still have a couple weeks to iron out the details, and I'm sure we will have the box set up quite a few days in advance. I'm going to have him look into the fiber fill filling as opposed to newspaper.

[Kaorte]

Just wanted to give you guys an Update. We had the two girls shipped on Monday when the lows were 36º both in Maryland and here in Chicago. By the time they were on the delivery truck it was about 60º outside. I'm really glad I didn't have to worry about shipping them in the freezing cold! They arrived at a comfy 78º with only one heat pack in the box.

Thanks for all of your help!

[3skulls]

Nice!! I'm glad everything worked out.