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Heads up on Fed Ex

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I had a package picked up today and the driver (who knows what is in it) told me to swap boxes from the white perishable one to a brown one. Evidently they are now opening the white boxes and checking for what is inside and it coud hold up your shipment by a day even if you are an approved shipper.
 
I just received one in a white box and am getting ready to ship one in a white box. No problems receiving, guess I'll find out if there will be shipping.
 
Received a white box on Thursday via FedEx, no issues. Hopefully this is just a rumor or a small percentage of FedEx doing this.
 
DAND said:
I'll be at my local hub later this morning and I will see if they know anything about this.
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See what you can find out about this. The package I shipped yesterday was delivered today without incident so I'd really like to know if this is true or just something the driver was being overly cautious about since he knows I ship live snakes.
 
Steve, I'm guessing you still used the white box yesterday, right?

I have some dart frogs to ship out today and need to do Fedex since the buyer already had another group coming in through Fedex being held for pickup, and this made it way easier on her. It would really suck to pay double the shipping charge I could get through SYR just to have some BS hold up the delivery and put the frogs at risk.

I really wouldn't care if it was just cornsnakes or BP's or something else that can take an extra day in shipping a little easier.
 
garweft said:
Steve, I'm guessing you still used the white box yesterday, right?
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Repacked into a brown box.

BTW, they sell plain brown boxes with insulation on Ebay if anyone is interested.
A bit more pricey than the white ones. Comes out to about $7.50 per box for 10x8x6 with 1 inch insulation.
 
interesting, I'd like to hear more.

I work for a packaging company and we sell the white perishable shipping boxes with foam to quite a few of our customers (mainly food companies), I'll keep an ear out if they start saying something about this... they ship out hundreds a week.
 
Andrew Larson said:
Any more news on this? I dont understand the difference between shipping a white and brown box. Just doesnt make sense.
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I had to do with the labeling on the white box. The red perishable lettering. It makes it easy to segregate from other boxes. Evidently some where shipping fish (bags broke) and some had dry ice in the boxes (not declared). From what I was told, they are doing spot checks since these are the most used type of boxes that unapproved shippers are using.
 
If this does become a problem. Just go to your local Office Max or Office Depot. Buy boxes there. Usually on special Buy 2 or 3 and get one free. Then go to you local home improvement store and buy a sheet of styrofoam. This is the only way I usually ship unless I fall upon some of the Superior Enterprise boxes. Making you own is super cheap though. Usually have about 2-3 bucks in each box max. I also only ship UPS SYR.
 
I usually just go with UPS since I've been using them so long and now with the SYR discount it's even better. I usually make my own boxes but our local Lowe's doesn't have the extruded poly in anything except 2" thick. I don't like cutting the expanded poly because it's a mess and the other sheet insulation looks like fiberglass or something. I didn't feel like driving to Pittsburgh hoping to find 3/4 extruded poly.....:(

If it's just spot checks I'll take my chances today I guess. Once these boxes are gone I think I'm going back to the plain old brown box from now on.
 
Wish these guys some luck.....

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Spot checks are spot checks,their done with K/9's and XRay.
Must be probable cause to actually open a container in the.
 
Must be probable cause to actually open a container in the United States
If you receive a box thats been tampered with call you local hub/Service Center Management.
 
I'm shipping my snake tomorrow in a white SYR box. Wish her luck also lol Your lil frogs are so cute! Glad they made it safe and sound!
 
UPS did it to me with a brown box last week or so.. Told me not to do it again!! Guess what, I did again anyways!! 3 since with both UPS and Fedex, no hiccups since... It appears to be random and happening more often yes.. I had an interesting telephone conversation with a head honcho at a fedex hold facility during this incident.. They thought a female mojave ball python was a cobra of course; since she periscoped outta the bag "they" opened... I was flaming embarassed at first; then I laid the hammer down on her whereabouts; having been mia (that's; missing in action for the unknowing) for two days, her health, no contact, no info entered in to the system for 48 hrs., and, well, they put her on heat after my conversation needless to say!!! Annnnd, they got her to my customer who I praise for his commitments to my daughter, lol, days off work and what not chasing a ghost for a couple days.. I honestly changed my looms on the third morning boy!!! But, these little ice cube refreezable thingies I get from lifoam.com.. Or at Fry's grocery outlets here in Az. They allow me to sleep at night during the hot months shipping.. I swear, everytime I ship, I look like Clark Griswold, "this is crazy this is crazy this is crazzzzy!!!", hands clappin and all!!! lol..
 
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