Ruth wrote, >I am simply a gardener who loves to get seeds from the Alpine Garden >Society and the Scottish Rock Garden Society. In order to get my >seeds out of the hands of the Miami PO, I had to give them my Fedex >account number and sustain a charge of $26.11. > >With regret at having to discontinue membership in both Societies, When the new seed importation enforcement was instituted, with little prior notice, at least one of the abovementioned groups (I forget which) responded to it by designating a single member in the U.S. to receive the entire shipment of orders for all U.S. members and then forward them to each person. This would have worked well, except that the person who did the work was too busy to handle it in a timely manner. Possibly something similar could be tried again, with a small group of members of AGS or SRGC acting as recipients and forwarders. There are a number of NARGS chapters with members who are also in AGS and SRGC, and some of them are convenient enough to inspection entry stations that the shipment could actually be physically picked up. Jane McGary (member, PBS, NARGS, AGS, SRGC -- but I don't order seeds from the overseas groups any more even though I have an APHIS permit)