re: Official news pertaining to mail order seed/plants
- Subject: re: Official news pertaining to mail order seed/plants
- From: M* D* G*
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 05:38:40 -0800
A move by the U.S. Postal Service to ensure that any bacteria sent via
mail will be killed may have an unfortunate side effect: green goods like
seeds, bulbs and bare-root plants would likely be damaged as well. Several
concerned retailers and growers are developing a strategy to have their
goods bypassed by the irradiation. "We recognize certain things will be
affected by irradiation, including plants, and we're working on a process to
separate mail that would be affected from other mail. We'll start installing
some of the irradiation machinery this month, but this is not an immediate
process," said USPS Spokesman Jerry Kreienkamp.
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