Darren, I only know how it works here in the U.S.A. If the parcels come by the postal service, they are handed back to the USPS by the Customs inspectors and go on their merry way to me. If they come by airfrieght, I have to use a customs brokerage firm to see them through customs and inspections, and then to forward them on to me. You might look for a respectable customs broker who operates at the Mexican port of entry through which you expect plants or bulbs to be shipped to you. Airfreight shipment and customs brokers are the best way to handle large batches of bulbs or plants, but they are definitely more expensive than air parcel post. I've no idea what you'll run into in Mexico, but I suspect you need to find someone there who already knows the ropes. This says "Customs Broker" to me; and trying to do things on the cheap sounds like a recipe for disaster, IMHO. But, as I said, I know nothing about how things work in Mexico! Regards, Jim Shields in central Indiana (USA) At 03:38 PM 8/26/2005 +0000, you wrote: >Thank you. > >So once you have all the paperwork, will the authorities contact you on >arrival of the package? Do you then go to the port and show the necesary >paperwork for collection? > >Kind regards > >Darren ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA