Neil, since you seem to have an issue with reading comprehension ... SYR has never claimed they are the only service allowed to ship residence to residences (psssst ... Reptile Express is allowed to do it too because ... you know, they went though the proper steps too). They are only stating their waiver has been given that exception from FedEx.
2) With us, you can ship to and from residences. Standard FedEx reptile certifications only allow business-to-business shipping. <--- This, at no point, says "We are the only ones allowed to ship to and from residences. It says they have an exception over the Standard FedEx Reptile Certifications.
As pointed out by Mike, the Standard FedEx Reptile Waiver does not actually allow for residence to residence shipping. It is for business to business, and while people have, historically, done residence to residence anyway with the Standard Waiver, some have lost their privileges because of it, that is where companies like SYR and RE come in.
If you were willing to do any actual research you would actually find threads on SYR, back in 2009 or 2010, prior to conflicts of their original contract with UPS, where FedEx certified shippers were miffed because they were not actually allowed to ship residence to residence.
As for antitrust violations ... you do not understand antitrust laws as well as you think you do.
FedEx is the only non-airline specific carrier in the U.S. that allows for the shipping of snakes since UPS made that a violation of their TOS some years back and the USPS has not allowed it for an incredibly long time. That means that FedEx is allowing a privilege to its customers, it is not offering a business that operates solely on the fact you can ship snakes, or reptiles in general.
They further have allowed Reptile Express and All Pro Shipping (SYR) to let third party individuals use their FedEx approved labels to ship snakes anywhere that they are not prohibited within the U.S.
SYR is not FedEx, it is not the actual shipping company. Anyone who wants to start a third party shipping company with FedEx to ship snakes can take the steps to do so, therefore, a monopoly on the competition simply does not exist.
In case you are not following, that means antitrust violations do not apply here, plain and simple and if they applied, it would be FedEx who is guilty (if they chose to gave only SYR these exceptions and no one else, even if they jumped through the hoops and made the negotiations needed to get there).
All that being said, SYR has shipping standards that people must abide by, both for general shipment and for insurance claims. If these standards are violated, you can lose your ability to use SYR and you can lose your insurance claim.
They sell all supplies needed that approved by FedEx for use and they proved instructions for how to use said supplies. Reptile Express is the same way and other companies sell comparable types of shipping supplies.
Properly packaged animals rarely die unless it is by error of FedEx and if people report those not properly packaging animals then SYR does something about it. It is not within their best interest to ignore such things.
Again, you would know this if you ever bothered to try and contact Robyn or anyone else at SYR before starting all of this nonsense.
Your claims of reptiles basically dying all day every day due to "negligent enablement" (<---- not a word, by the way) is erroneous and has no statistics to back it up.
Irresponsible people exist, they are going to do as they wish, when they wish, they are not a reflection on the entirety of the responsible people using this service.
I have never lost an animal in transit (knock on wood) and I know many others who have not. Sadly, mistakes do happen, but the majority of the time, it is an error by FedEx, not the individual who shipped the animal.
They are not false advertising, you just do not understand that of which you speak despite your best attempts to come across as an in depth intellectual.
By the way, you brought up Reptile Express unsolicited.
Now, you can either continue to sit here and yammer on about things you think you understand that you clearly do not, or you can go ahead and start your own third party shipping company and go through all the steps RE and SYR has gone through the obtain specific waivers for the shipping of approved live animals through FedEx and then let us know how that goes for you. Of course, I assume you are going to tell us absolutely everything about the process and post every e-mail, record and post every phone call and any other thing pertinent to the transparency you seem to think every company should be providing.
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