Back to the plants and their travels: I am puzzled. If bulbs or plants are ordered from the Netherlands, I would assume they would be airmailed to the buyer. If there is not a direct flight between the Netherlands and the buyer's country, the airmail needs to be transferred to a different plane in a third country, like the U.S. Surely the packages will have been sorted already, so there will be bags of mail destined for Japan or Taiwan. Those bags should not need inspection by the U.S. agricultural inspectors. They will probably need to be sniffed by bomb-sniffing dogs, but that has nothing to do with plant inspection. Can someone explain? Diane Whitehead Canada