You know, along this same line. When I was talking to the lady at my FedEx hub about shipping my snakes, and this other girl picked up the box and started tossing it up and down, which I promptly asked her to stop doing, then I asked her why she would do that to a box marked like mine was. Her reply, " Well the boxes marked perishable probably just contain cheese or something like that, so you don't need to be that careful with it." I then pointed out the very obvious "Live Harmless Reptile" label on all sides of my box. At which time she freaked out and threw the box away from her, thankfully it landed on a nearby counter. I then asked the woman who was finishing the paperwork if all the employees were as stupid as her. The older woman shook her head and said, "No she's new, and obviously has a lot to learn." She then gave the girl a stern lecture on proper handling of customer packages and the responsibility of an employee to read the labels on a package before handling it so carelessly.

As I was leaving, I heard the girl ask the older woman, "It says there is a snake in the box. It's dead right?" I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Yes honey, I am shipping a dead snake in a box.

Gale