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We have just recieved the following notification from USPS.

Effective with mail acceptance on Monday, October 23, 2006, FedEx will begin transporting lives on the entire day network, (in addition to the night network) with exceptions listed below.

USPS begin transporting lives on the entire day FedEx network

USPS AMF ACCEPTING "LIVES" FOR TRANSPORTATION BY FEDERAL EXPRESS
Atlanta GA (ATL)
Austin TX (AUS)
Baltimore MD (BWI)
Boston MA (BOS)
Buffalo NY (BUF)
Charlotte NC (CLT)
Cincinnati OH (CVG)
Cleveland OH (CLE)
Columbus OH (CMH)
Denver CO (DEN)
El Paso TX (ELP)
Hartford CT (BDL)
Jacksonville FL (JAX)
Kansas City MO (MCI)
Los Angeles CA (LAX) (To include Express Lives from Burbank CA (BUR))
Louisville KY (SDF)
Memphis TN (MEM)
Milwaukee WI (MKE) (To include Express Lives from Madison WI (MSN))
Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP) (To include Express Lives from Rochester MN (RST))
Nashville TN (BNA)
Norfolk VA (ORF)
Oakland CA (OAK)
Omaha NE (OMA)
Ontario CA (ONT)
Orlando FL (MCO)
Philadelphia PA (PHL)
Phoenix AZ (PHX)
Pittsburgh PA (PIT)
Portland OR (PDX)
Richmond VA (RIC)
Salt Lake City (SLC)
San Diego CA (SAN)
San Francisco CA (SFO)
Seattle WA (SEA)
Sioux Falls SD (FSD)
Tulsa OK (TUL)

Clairification of FedEx Shipments by Mail

We received the following clarification to yesterdays announcement.

Effective with mail acceptance on Monday, October 23, FedEx will begin transporting lives as Priority or Express Mail on the entire day and night network, with exceptions listed below.

Airport           | Express to | Express from | Priority to | Priority from |
St. Louis, MO     |     x      |      x       |      x      |      x        |
Springfield, MO   |            |              |      x      |      x        |
Charleston, WV    |            |              |      x      |               |
Bango, ME         |     x      |      x       |             |               |
Presque Isle, ME  |     x      |      x       |             |               |
Elmirea, NY       |     x      |      x       |             |               |
Chattanooga, TN   |     x      |      x       |             |               |
Traverse City, MI |     x      |      x       |             |               |
Huntsville, AL    |     x      |              |             |               |
Bismarck, ND      |            |      x       |             |               |
Bozeman, MT       |            |      x       |             |               |
Cumberland, MD    |            |      x       |             |               |
Durango, CO       |            |      x       |             |               |
Eugene, OR        |            |      x       |             |               |
Fairbanks, AK     |            |      x       |             |               |
Kalispell, MT     |            |      x       |             |               |
Medford, OR       |            |      x       |             |               |
Minot, ND         |            |      x       |             |               |
Missoula, MT      |            |      x       |             |               |
Pasco, WA         |            |      x       |             |               |
Pocatello, ID     |            |      x       |             |               |
Rapid City, SD    |            |      x       |             |               |
Redmond, OR       |            |      x       |             |               |
Rock Springs, WY  |            |      x       |             |               |
Salisbury, MD     |            |      x       |             |               |
Twin Falls, ID    |            |      x       |             |               |
Wenatchee, WA     |            |      x       |             |               |
Yakima, WA        |            |      x       |             |               |

 

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FEDERAL EXPRESS AND POST OFFICE CONTRACTUAL AGREE ON CARRING LIVES

Federal Express and the US post office have reached a contractual agreement on carrying "LIVES". Starting on September 25, Federal Express has taken over the routs previously served by Kitty Hawk (see below for a listing). This is a contractual arrangement through the post office only as Federal Express will not take "LIVE" shipments directly. You will need to deliver your birds to a post office - not a Federal Express Office. If you experience any problems with this new service, please contact your postal official, not Federal Express.

At the present time the Post Office will only have Federal Express transport "LIVES" to and from the USPS AMFs listed below. As Federal Express gains more experience, other AMFs will be added to the routs. The full Priority Mail Network effective date has yet to be determined. Commercial airlines are still carrying lives.

BSA is still working to put the temperature guidelines in place by regulation or legislation. BSA is also investigating the problems that shippers have experienced with insurance. We will keep you posted on our progress.

USPS AMF ACCEPTING "LIVES" FOR TRANSPORTATION BY FEDERAL EXPRESS
Atlanta GA (ATL)
Austin TX (AUS)
Baltimore MD (BWI)
Boston MA (BOS)
Buffalo NY (BUF)
Charlotte NC (CLT)
Cincinnati OH (CVG)
Cleveland OH (CLE)
Columbus OH (CMH)
Denver CO (DEN)
El Paso TX (ELP)
Hartford CT (BDL)
Jacksonville FL (JAX)
Kansas City MO (MCI)
Los Angeles CA (LAX) (To include Express Lives from Burbank CA (BUR))
Louisville KY (SDF)
Memphis TN (MEM)
Milwaukee WI (MKE) (To include Express Lives from Madison WI (MSN))
Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP) (To include Express Lives from Rochester MN (RST))
Nashville TN (BNA)
Norfolk VA (ORF)
Oakland CA (OAK)
Omaha NE (OMA)
Ontario CA (ONT)
Orlando FL (MCO)
Philadelphia PA (PHL)
Phoenix AZ (PHX)
Pittsburgh PA (PIT)
Portland OR (PDX)
Richmond VA (RIC)
Salt Lake City (SLC)
San Diego CA (SAN)
San Francisco CA (SFO)
Seattle WA (SEA)
Sioux Falls SD (FSD)
Tulsa OK (TUL)
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Horizon has received confirmation that Federal Express and United Parcel Service (UPS) will begin accepting lives as USPS mail. The details will be critical in determining how comprehensive and useful this new service will be, but we are hopeful. The USPS advises that UPS will accept lives once they have their network in place. We anticipate this to begin mid to late September.

Additionally, Federal Express signed a new agreement with USPS. Under this contract they are required to carry live animals, effective October 1, 2006 . They will carry lives on both their networks (day and night). Again, the devil is in the details. I will keep you posted.

We are also told by the USPS that Kitty Hawk will end their relationship with the USPS effective October 1, 2006 . When they discontinue accepting lives, the surcharge will revert back to $0.20 everywhere except Minneapolis and Detroit where Northwest Airlines is used. These two markets are still being evaluated.
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REUTERS

6:12 a.m. August 1, 2006

BOSTON – Package-delivery company FedEx Corp. and the U.S. Postal Service Tuesday said they had renewed through 2013 an agreement for FedEx's FedEx Express unit to transport domestic mail by air.

The contract, expected to generate about $8 billion in revenue over its seven-year life span, calls for FedEx Express to transport about 4 million pounds of mail between U.S. airports each day.
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This is a very positive move and should help ease our shipping problems. Birdshippers.org and the AU national office have been working for some time to affect positive change and it appears to have been successful.


The information below is what the AU received from the USPS 
as of Friday, September 15, 2006.

“Lives mail will be transported on the FedEx Network, beginning with mail acceptance on Monday, September 25, 2006. Transportation of lives on Kitty Hawk will cease on November 1. Transportation on commercial carriers will continue to be available.

POSTAGE SURCHARGES:

Effective September 25, the only live animal surcharges are $1.00 per pound for all lives accepted for transport by air from offices served by Minneapolis/St. Paul MN (MSP) and Detroit MI (DTW) airports, and $0.20 per pound for day-old poultry accepted everywhere else.

LIVES MAILED AS EXPRESS:

Express Mail lives can be accepted by retail Monday through Friday for the complete FedEx night-turn network with the following exceptions:

· No lives on FedEx to and from locations served by the St. Louis MO (STL) airport (ZIP Span: 620, 622-624, 628-631, 633, 634, 636-639, 650-653). St. Louis lives may be transported on available commercial routings.

· Queen bees may not be transported on FedEx to and from locations on the Queen Bees Exception List.

· No Express lives on FedEx to (destinating in) delivery locations served by Huntsville AL (HSV, ZIP Span: 356-358). Available commercial transportation may be used.

In addition, Express Mail lives to and from locations served by Honolulu HI (HNL, ZIP span: 967-969) and Anchorage AK (ANC, ZIP Span: 995-997) MAY be transported on FedEx but are a two-day commitment. (HNL-destinating Lives are subject to State of Hawaii restrictions.)

Thank you,

 
George P. Drewry
Owner, Horizon Micro-Environments, LLC
(800) 443-2498
george@hm-e.net
 
www.hm-e.net  Bio-secure transporters for USPS shipping
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