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Re: Latest on Irradiation & Seeds

Doreen Howard wrote:

> This is from Todd Davis' Weekly NMPRO email newsletter:
>
> * While some seed companies have already switched to alternate shipping
> companies, U.S. Postal Service suggests using another carrier to mail seeds
> or other plant materials. It issued a warning against the effects of
> irradiation on seeds, cuttings, plants and bacterial growth. USPS will
> irradiate packages, letters, flats, express and priority mail with stamps.
> It will not irradiate USPS Express mail with meter strips or corporate
> accounts; priority mail with meter strips or permit indicia; all registered
> mail and bulk quantity mail. http://www.amseed.com/govt.asp
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    We are presently shipping as usual with a number of different parcel carriers, including the USPS.  We have had no
irradiation instances.  The USPS assures us that our packages will not be irradiated and that the only mail potentially
subject to irradiation is at the 2 trouble spots but that our mailings would be excluded even there.
    There was a thread on this topic a few weeks ago where it was concluded that mail irradiation was not an issue for
horticultural mailings.
    The problem with this kind of post is that it suggests that we should become uneasy again, which isn't rational.
--
Robert L. Johnston, Jr.
Chairman
Johnny's Selected Seeds (http://www.johnnyseeds.com)
 Post:  RD 1  Box 2580, Albion, Maine  04910  USA
 Fax:   1.207.437.2422 (alternate= 1.207.437.2165)
 Telephone:  1.207.437.9294

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