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Old 11-24-2013, 02:13 PM
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The last batch of frags Russell sent me in spring, it ended up being 3 days before I finally received it after a supposed 6 hour day trip. Fortunately, ever frag was fine even though some water surrounding the frags was cold. So, take some hope in that the frags may still be fine.
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Old 11-24-2013, 07:33 PM
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Well apparently they made it there finally. Cold water is all I know at this point. No more fragging and shipping for me anymore. Not worth the stress.
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Old 11-25-2013, 12:16 AM
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Yes its pretty stressful. I've generally done well with Greyhound and even most of the late packages have still arrived alive. I probably have about a 90% success rate. FYI at this time of the year you can buy 20 hour heat packs at Princess Auto.
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Old 11-25-2013, 03:18 AM
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Yup they're dead. Thanks for the info Russel but nope i'm done shipping.
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Old 11-25-2013, 02:03 PM
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yes Grey hound is a Pain in the Ass and very unprofessional.. However I have had some good sucess with Greyhound KNOC ON WOOD, one time here just about 12 month ago. I bought some corals from Coly from BAYSIDE. it was shipped Friday for 16:15pm s othat is 4:16 for you civie folk. its funny because Saskatoon is only 5.5 hrs away but it takes a 12 hrs for a parcel to get here LOL oh well. So i call the grey hound and they tell me that they are opened up on Saturdays at 10am. the parcel gets to the depot at 6 am so a extra 4 hours in a warm place that is ok with me. Colby ensures me that the Ric's and Zoas would be fine. so i go there for 11:30 because i was super busy and nothing there. the lady who was working tells me it wasnt scanned into the computer. So I explained to her what was in it. she tells me there is anotherbus that is coming at 1:30pm and 4:30pm and then the last one is at 7:30pm. she took my number and would let me know if these came in. well to cut to the long story they came in at 7:30 ofcourse im things 27 hours Friggin great.

However the best part was My phone was on silent and she called 2 times. so i called and she told me that they were there. I go to get them and she is there with her friend. I then was told by her friend that she was off 6:30 and she waited around for the package to get there. and then waited on her own time for me to get there to pick it up.. TALK about amazing lady.. I told her how excited I was and then she told me that. She remebered me before from talking to her about CIChilds and she used to own some before, but I gave her some advice on them in the past. So that is why she waited around. She knew that I had this passion for the Salt water fish.

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Old 11-25-2013, 02:31 PM
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Well it's good to hear something nice I guess. I'm more burned that the reciever had to keep running back and forth to the depot for nothing and when he finally gets the package it's full of about $500 of dead corals. I'll be making some calls today to try and get his money back on the shipping.
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