Many of us experienced pandemic-related shipping issues over the last year-especially around the holidays. The United States Postal Service (USPS) in particular is still recovering from the holiday crunch. USPS is required to ship lives bees, and helping businesses connect with their customers is part of their mission: “-To serve the American people and, through the universal service obligation, bind our nation together by maintaining and operating our unique, vital and resilient infrastructure. -To provide trusted, safe and secure communications and services between our Government and the American people, businesses and their customers, and the American people with each other. -To serve all areas of our nation, making full use of evolving technologies.” With package bee season right around the corner, and spring queen orders kicking into high gear, how is a strained USPS impacting queen and package producers? Dr. Jeff Pettis, who has worked on improving bee shipping protocols said “Most shippers I know have used UPS more than USPS, but if they use the post office it’s always priority mail.” And a representative from Kona Queens indicated they are having success with FEDEX lately.
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