Re: Package from Portland?

**E* Z* <e*@acmeplant.com>**

Mine arrived today (in NYC).  I took the plants to the UPS store in  
the mall across from the hotel and packed and shipped them myself on  
the same morning the UPS people came to the symposium.  They arrived  
in excellent shape and I can't wait to get them in the ground.

Ellen Z.

On Sep 30, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Judy Lowe wrote:

> I received my box today. The UPS people in Portland told me it would  
> arrive tomorrow, so it was a day "early."
>
> I never ship plants -- I accept or buy only the number I can carry  
> on the plane.  A week in a box without light or water won't do most  
> plants much good. :-) Most companies that ship plants to me use  
> second-day air. (UPS offered it, but it was really expensive.)
>
> Ann Marie Van Nest and I checked in at the airport at the same time  
> -- she had boxed her plants (in a box she'd  bought from the UPS  
> folks) and checked it as baggage on the plane -- I keep meaning to e- 
> mail and ask her if that worked well.
>
> Judy Lowe
> http://features.csmonitor.com/gardening
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