as many of you know I'm selling CP's, mainly Nepenthes and
Heliamphora. As there is a demand for both genera in the US I'm
mailing a parcel about once a month to a person who distributes the
plants then to the final recipient. In recent times these shipments
often were delayed in the customs station so that they were not even
forwarded to the Dept. of Agriculture without sitting around for
some days (sometimes a week and more!!!) at the customs office.
Needless to say that this "treatment" is not beneficial to the plants
and many arrive dead or in bad shape at my distributer, so that I had
to ship some plants over and over again... until they arrived in fine
shape.
As the situation seems to get worse I'm planning to ship the bulk
shipments via air-freight in future.
While both persons who distributed my plants so far did an excellent
job (thank you HvS and CB :-)) none of them can receive air-freight
shipments since both do not live close to one of the airports dealing
with plant import shipments (like e.g. New York, Miami,...).
I'm looking for a reliable CP enthusiast willing to pick up a
shipment about once a month and guide it through customs and
inspection station.
After inspection the plants would have to be repacked and mailed to
the recipients via overnight mail.
As payment I'd pay a fair fraction of the plant value in money,
another fraction in plants plus -of cause- all expenses needed for
shipment and repacking.
Everybody interested may contact me privately - not via the list.
Andreas Wistuba
Andreas Wistuba; Mudauer Ring 227; 68259 Mannheim; Germany
Phone: +49-621-705471 / +49-621-7152027
Fax: +49-621-7152028
E-Mail: andreas.wistuba@rhein-neckar.de
WWW: http://www.rhein-neckar.de/~carnivor/index.html