Thanks, Jane. Good suggestion. Now I'll write to the Miami chapter of NARGS and see if we can work something out. Ruth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane McGary" <janemcgary@earthlink.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Importing seeds and bulbs > 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) > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >