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HALP! Rotting VFT

  • #21
From the facts presented here I can conclude that USPS Priority mail (or express mail) is the safest way to ship CPs during the winter.

Matt has the best evidence:

"Steve and I have shipped probably over 100 orders during the winter months via USPS Priority Mail and we've not yet had one customer report that the plants were frozen upon arrival."
 
  • #22
True that. I wonder what's different about their distribution system that seems to safeguard plants from the elements. Climate controlled sorting facilities or vans? More direct trucking routes? Air transit for long-haul, cross-country deliveries? I know that my UPS shipments went via ground...
 
  • #23
My Venus flytrap from the giveaway came home fine and it was ups it was the fastest i have ever gotten any plant 2 days.
 
  • #24
Well, when I received mine we had the coldest temperatures on record.
 
  • #25
Yeah, I imagine that it does happen from time to time. But Steve and I have shipped probably over 100 orders during the winter months via USPS Priority Mail and we've not yet had one customer report that the plants were frozen upon arrival.

I have also shipped hundreds of orders through USPS over the past couple winters and have had very good results. I add 72-hour chemical heat packs when the weather looks especially severe, but I have yet to determine how necessary that is.
 
  • #26
Well any news on it perking up the rotting venus flytrap?
 
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