I’ve heard you can also mail a potato if you slap the right amount of stamps on it
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#72One important restriction on mailing is that you CANNOT mail fertile ants through USPS. Which means that all of those ant farms you see being sold to kids? You pay money, and get some sterile workers who are guaranteed to die pretty fast, leaving an unhappy kid.
If you want a real ant farm, you need to either collect ants locally, or buy ants in person from someone who did themselves. And you'd better known the rules if you want to cross state lines with your ants.
(Source, I have a teenager who loooves ants and knows everything about them. He now has multiple species of ants that he keeps.)
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#73Does anyone know why you cannot ship a pheasant in december ?
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#74One important restriction on mailing is that you CANNOT mail fertile ants through USPS. Which means that all of those ant farms you see being sold to kids? You pay money, and get some sterile workers who are guaranteed to die pretty fast, leaving an unhappy kid. If you want a real ant farm, you need to either collect ants locally, or buy ants in person from someone who did themselves. And you'd better known the rules…
That is really interesting! I never had an ant farm, and I'm glad I didn't given what you've said.
Are ants similar to bees in that there's one egg-laying "queen" that you have to gather, or can you just gather a collection of individuals from a colony?
Your kid probably already knows about this, but have him check out the YouTuber AntsCanada. I'm not particularly into ants but I find his videos fascinating.
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#75When I worked in a USPS facility, it was always a mix of emotions when a box started chirping. On the one hand, cute baby birds! On the other hand, they’re going through an ordeal right now (they got special non-machine handling, but it still wasn’t pleasant for them to be packed into cartons) and their destination was most likely a factory farm.
Newly hatched chickens can survive without food for more than 24 hours. They only want to sleep and can travel perfectly at this age, so is the usual way for amateurs to buy fancy chicken breeds or small chicken of known sex. So, most probably those chicken would end having a happy life destroying carefully the backyard of somebody, one scratch at a time. There is also a special kind of fishes that lay eggs that can…
killifish are the fish you are talking about
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#76> Nonpoisonous Insects So it's legal to just, say, mail a bunch of stink bugs and roaches and fruitflies to businesses that send you junk mail or ?
Just because postal regulations permit them to be mailed does not preclude other reasons why that action might be illegal or expose you to legal liability.
There are lots of actions that are legal in isolation that become illegal when you do them to other people, particularly when done with malice.
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#77I love lists like this. I remember waiting for a Greyhound bus and reading the list of prohibited items and imagining the stories behind each one. It ran on for pages. Human heads were not allowed, even if frozen. Martial arts weapons like swords, nunchucks and throwing stars got a section all their own, separate from guns and knives. Each type of bodily fluid was listed separately, lest someone assume that their jar…
There was an incident maybe 30 years ago where a medical school employee went into New York (I think it was) to pick up a batch of human heads to be used for teaching purposes. He left the box in his car while taking care of another errand, and it was stolen. The box was found sitting on the sidewalk a few blocks away, with the heads still in it. One can only imagine what went through the thief's mind when he opened…
Regardless of the thief, it does seem a little concerning that the chain of custody for actual human heads involves being left unattended in a random employee's car.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
> On February 10, 2017, the Manitoba Criminal Code Review Board ordered Li be discharged. Li was granted an absolute discharge. There will be no legal obligations or restrictions pertaining to Li's independent living.
I understand that mens rea should generally be present in crimes in order for convictions but eight years for doing what he did is itself insane. Reading up on his background, I wonder if he just snapped and killed the guy out of anger for whatever reason and then started cannibalizing the corpse so that he could play the mental illness card at court.
Even if that's true, that's still well beyond a reasonable bound of sanity. Agreed that 8 years seems a bit light though, considering the notoriety of the crime.
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#79I’ve been aware of this. It’s really fucked up if you’d so me.
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#80> Nonpoisonous Insects So it's legal to just, say, mail a bunch of stink bugs and roaches and fruitflies to businesses that send you junk mail or ?
There's no pre-existing market for "a bunch of stink bugs", however ladybugs are useful for non-toxic pest control (they'll eat aphids), so they can be ordered via mail.