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Postal Costs for Bees and Chickens to go up, maybe.

On May 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Package Bees, Queens

Last time we looked at getting packages, and I was going to take a long look at getting them started, but not unlike lots of times, something got in the way. The Post Office.

Here’s the address they published their proposed changes at:

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/04/24/2013-09603/new-mailing-standards-for-live-animals-and-special-handling

Here’s the summary:

The Postal Service [...]

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Georgia On My Mind…

On October 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In African Honey Bees, Package Bees, Queens

I went to Georgia last week. That’s why I’ve been gone from here so long…I was having way, way too much fun.

Actually, I started in Alabama, at their Annual Fall meeting in Montgomery. A good crowd and some old friends. Ted Kretchman was there, the only commercial beekeeper left in the state now. There [...]

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