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Old 04-23-2013, 09:59 PM
thehoodedcoder thehoodedcoder is offline
Kevin Qui.nn
 
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Originally Posted by deadballfreaK View Post
Last week I bought my wife two breeding canaries as a gift. They were shipped USPS "Overnight Express". Only cost me $40 shipping + $10 packaging. A total trip of about 500-550 miles. Birds shipped on Weds. Got em Saturday. 63 hours. Fortunately the birds were alive, but c'mon. 8 miles an hour is EXPRESS? I had made arrangements to pick up at the post office. Had I waited for normal rural delivery it would have been 7 more hours.
You paid 60 some bucks to ship a live animal. Sometimes I can't get a card for under 12 bucks. It can take 8 miles an hour.

Kevin
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