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One 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…
I had an aquarium and the snail died. I wrote to the compoany, they mailed me a snail. It was great.
You can also write an address on a fresh coconut, add postage, and mail it, at least from some locations (pretty sure this doesn't work from Floida to California).
It seems so improbable in retrospect thay I wonder how much I confabulated.
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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.
Once they've been relegated to the heap of experimentation they really don't need to be controlled that much. Oddly I would feel in some way violated if a loved one of mine had died and his/her head were in that box, but if it happened to my own head I would pay it no mind.
I once had to go to a mail processing facility in SF to retrieve a package which had had an exception in the delivery process. That was it's own nightmare, but I digress... The postal worker I eventually talked to had a desk in a little office where she seemed to be sorting out issues for people like me. I think my case was a pretty mild one, but she kept getting calls from people about some live chicks which were so…
Brb, getting started on PetsOvernight.com!
This is how I sometimes get my chicken, turkey, duck and geese chicks. The other is from local sources. At one time you could send human children by US Mail as well. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-chil... When I had security clearances involving classified documents and dealt with radioactive materials, BOTH of those were shippable by US Mail also.
One 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…