Re: OT: UPS vs. Priority Mail
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- Subject: Re: OT: UPS vs. Priority Mail
- From: E* G* <e*@moose.ncia.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:58:47 -0600 (MDT)
A little vignette about my first experience sending irises and I
used Priority Mail...I sent three Siberians to Mark Cook in trade
for SDBs. I carefully made sure they would remain moist for the
trek to Kentucky from New Hampshire. Actually, I was more worried
that the box would disintegrate from all the moist paper towels
even though they were in plastic bags. :)
I chose a Tuesday since I reasoned that my PMS orders had been
mailed on a Tuesday and got here in record time...sent Mark
a e-mail message that they should be arriving on Thurs. or
Fri. and I waited and prayed to the post office god that the
box would hold up.....
No word from Mark by Fri. nite and I began to get worried. :(
At 9 AM Sat, the phone rang and my local post office was calling
since Mark's address label had fallen off. Since this is a
very small town and the lady knew me she simply asked me for
Mark's address and she wrote it on the box and sent it back on
its way to Kentucky. Panicked, I called Mark in Lexington and
got his machine.....he finally called me back and we had a very
nice, long conversation about irises...not the three in the box
that were winging their way to KY. I was sure that they would be
ruined and dried out and would be fodder for the compost heap.
Mark got them on Monday and they were still moist and the box
was in good shape. Whew. The morale is I should have taken pains
with the address label which I just slapped on after spending an
hour packing the Siberians...what an idiot. :) Still got there in
less than a week. I vote for Priority Mail with my own small exper-
ience. I received three shipments this summer this way, I forgot
Dana Borglum from NY state whose Siberians and daylilies took
two days to get here - also sent on a Tues. Borglum has great
cultivars, BTW and good prices on daylilies.
Cheers,
Ellen
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Ellen Gallagher \ e_galla@moose.ncia.net \ Lancaster, New Hampshire,USA
USDA Zone 3a \ Northern White Mountains\ AIS Region 1 {New England}
