Does anyone use USPS

[C2cexoticfiahandcorals]

What are advantages of USPS packages and what corals and live animals would you send through priority experience good and bad and price ect

 

[fermentedhiker]

I think lower cost is the primary reason. I've gotten freshwater plants, marine macro algaes, snails, crabs, pods, and even freshwater fish without issue via USPS.

 

[C2cexoticfiahandcorals]

I want to try and cut some shipping cost via USPS might start shipping with them soon just wanna see what others are sending via USPS I’m thinking clean up crews plants chaeto maybe anemones might even try a few zoas do a special or something a few cheap or free frags and buyers pay shipping

 

[fermentedhiker]

I want to try and cut some shipping cost via USPS might start shipping with them soon just wanna see what others are sending via USPS I’m thinking clean up crews plants chaeto maybe anemones might even try a few zoas do a special or something a few cheap or free frags and buyers pay shipping

Worth a try IMO except the anemones. I have my doubts about how well they would hold up. I once had fedex loose a shipment so it showed up after five days instead of 1 and the condys I ordered were bags of mush. Granted USPS priority is usually only 3 days, but these anemones weren't just dead they were dissolving, which makes me think they had been dead awhile. Although if you used longer running heatpacks maybe it could work out if packed well?

 

[fermentedhiker]

Forgot to mention I've also gotten live rock via USPS from gulfliverock. Had some die off, but sponges, tunicates, and some other weird stuff survived in spite of ordering too late in the fall so the temperatures weren't that great.