Dear All, Thanks to Lee, William Aley, Justin Smith and WDA for your comprehensive discussions about this vexing question of importing seeds and bulbs. To keep my particular problem at its simplest: 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, Ruth Bierhoff Zone 7-8.