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FedEx shipment mishap
- Thread starter Pugsley
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Alli_Draggy
Wadjet's family
I don't, but I know a lot of people who do, including a couple who work specifically with animals (not surprisingly, the same folks who are willing to do jobs involving feeding/care for shipped animals are often involved in rescue), and have visited the animal care area. I suspect one reason why Fed Ex is so transparent is that the LAST thing they want is HSUS and PETA on their tails-and if that includes being willing to allow visitors from "Friends of the Bartlett Animal Shelter", so be it! In this case, though, I know enough employees personally to be pretty confident that I haven't seen smoke and mirrors and that they really do what they say they do.
I also know several people in logistics and routing, and I know that live animals are routed differently than most other cargo, in large part SO they can keep them in appropriate situations.
It's not too big of an exaggeration to say that Memphis IS Fed Ex-not only is it about the biggest industry here, but almost all of the other companies located here are here because of the proximity to Fed Ex and the availability of easy shipping.
--Donna
Nanci
Alien Lover
How does FedEx know I'm shipping a reptile, other than my labeling on the box? I am not asked that information when processing the shipment. My boxes are boldly labeled as a live animal, but I have received shipments that are labeled in what appears to be an attempt to conceal that information as well as possible, meeting only the legal requirements, if that.
Alli_Draggy
Wadjet's family
You're already registered with them, right? If so, they already have information about what you're shipping on their computers, and they know that it's a live animal. It's the same if someone regularly ships gift boxes of Oranges from FL-they already have in the computer that shipments from that business are perishable, so they're handled accordingly.
My guess is that if you put a Christmas present that doesn't hiss in a Snickersnakes labeled box and sent it Fed Ex, it would probably end up carefully handled so that it was never upside down or shaken too much, and it would end up in the climate controlled room where your snakes normally go-rather than that a snake that didn't have "Live animal" on it's labeling from a shipper registered to ship snakes would end up in regular cargo with no special handling. I'll ask my friend who works for logistics.
If you're shipping anything unusual as a private citizen-for example, if I visit FL and want to ship a box of Oranges back, and take it to the local Fed Ex store myself instead of letting the person who sold me the Oranges do so-I would have to do extra paperwork since it's a perishable (and restricted, in some areas, because of citrus canker and the like) item. I don't think they'd accept me coming to the counter with a deli cup containing a hatchling at all. I'm also guessing a container big enough for a reticulated python would require extra paperwork simply due to being oversized/overweight.
--Donna
Well, I'm the OP. The friend that sent this to me works at FedEx. He received it through his work e-mail. Looking back through the e-mail chain, its originator is a Senior OSS (whatever that means) in the Regional Sort Operations Planning and Engineering in Birmingham, AL. I won't list their name. Before posting, I asked my friend if it was alright to do so. He said there shouldn't be any problem.
So, I believe it to be a real event. I don't know anything more about it than I originally posted, but I would suspect that is wasn't labeled correctly and was obviously poorly packaged. If the shipper was an approved FedEx live animal shipper, I hope that approval is being questioned.
So, I believe it to be a real event. I don't know anything more about it than I originally posted, but I would suspect that is wasn't labeled correctly and was obviously poorly packaged. If the shipper was an approved FedEx live animal shipper, I hope that approval is being questioned.
RobbiesCornField
Bring it on.
Given that you can't ship anything over 7 feet in length except through Delta Dash, if I remember correctly, this was definitely someone trying to fly under the radar.