I just received an order from Big Cheese. I bought 25 pups, 20 weanlings, 60 smalls, and 50 mediums. They went out on a Monday from Texas and arrived on a Wednesday in Georgia just fine, still completely frozen. They are vacuum packed with polystyreen meat trays, nice and clean and all seemed to be well within the size ranges expected.
I've noticed lately that the other supplier I had used, had a bag full of rats just dumped in, that were within a couple grams of the minimum size of the range. So essentlialy you were paying for smalls or mediums and really getting the equivelant of a large weanling or a large small. In addition, there pricing had jumped about 75% in the last year and a half. A bag of 50 smalls used to cost $50 and now it's $87.50. The 60 smalls from BC cost $69. Last, I used to drive to pick them up to save on the shipping. But it was about 50 minutes one way plus gas. Now I just sit in my house and wait for the shipment to come to me, saved about $50 doing it, and ended up with more product as the sizes are all better.