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FedEx shipment mishap

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Pugsley

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A friend that works at FedEx sent me this picture. It is going around the company. He asked me if it was one of mine. Here is the text of the e-mail:

This handlers were greeted with this today (10/25/2012) when they opened one of the containers in Tuscaloosa, AL.

There obviously was a slight packaging malfunction. The designated re-wrap person was justifiably a bit nervous.
 

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OMG that is CUTE! I just hope it doesn't cause yet another bump in the snake keeping hobby, if HSUS or PETA sees this they will have a field day.
 
My first thought was if that's true it doesn't help our cause in legally shipping reptiles.
 
Saw this yesterday, apparently the guy had it in a sterilite held shut with duct tape.
 
That is a danger to the employees... a random FedEx worker isn't going to know if it's a pet or a wild snake, whether it's venomous or not, if it's even friendly... Someone who doesn't know how to handle huge snakes might get bitten if they're not careful re-packaging the box. And if they had to call in experts it probably caused a fair bit of delay and/or cost to the company. So yeah, I'd say this could be big bad news for shipping snakes with FedEx.
 
If it really happened it will be all over the news. Hey, someone better call Bill Nelson, STAT!!!
 
By reading the forum posts that were linked it seems like the people who found it were not afraid of it.. IF it was real like you say Nanci, because I imagine that it would be on the news too. Whoever shipped it needs to re-certify though, unless it was just some jerk shipping under the radar in an unmarked box.
 
It's still not on Snopes or hardly showing up elsewhere, so it either isn't going viral or isn't real. And I have a hard time thinking anything involving finding a giant snake at work wouldn't go viral. Maybe I just hope it's fake, though.
 
If it was labeled as a live animal, it goes to a specific climate controlled building/area here in the distribution center, anyway (I'm in Memphis, and almost ALL Fed Ex traffic goes through here) , so the employees would be used to dealing with them (Fed Ex regularly ships animals to zoos and the like, so that includes some pretty exotic animals)-and some do require care mid-ship. While it would be startling to find a reticulated python slithering around, I'm guessing it wouldn't raise the panic there that it would at, say, in an airline baggage claim area, where, while animals are occasionally sent in luggage, a large snake would be VERY unusual.
 
I also question why a live python would have been in a storage area in Tuscaloosa anyway. That's contrary to what I know about Fed Ex's policies and practices for shipping animals, and they've made a BIG deal about that here when they shipped the Pandas in from China a few years back-and how that applied to even things like orders of chicks going to farms, pet snakes, and so on.


--Donna
 
AliCat37 said:
By reading the forum posts that were linked it seems like the people who found it were not afraid of it.. IF it was real like you say Nanci, because I imagine that it would be on the news too. Whoever shipped it needs to re-certify though, unless it was just some jerk shipping under the radar in an unmarked box.
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On that other forum, did you see the bit under the picture In the first post:

"The container had just been offloaded from one of our planes. Someone was probably trying to ship it in a regular box, undeclared and it got loose.

Many shorts were soiled that morning. "

That indicates that the employees working there were super afraid of it, and whoever sent it probably wasn't even certified if they sent it in a regular box.
 
If you Google "fedex tuscaloosa snake", the only related thing which appears is this thread. I suspect our speculation might not be helpful.
 
Could be a Halloween prank but either way I doubt corporate is going to want it in the news if they can help it.
 
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