Mail from South Africa

Joe G via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:33:04 PDT
I had been mailing individually cut address labels with my seed donations
to overseas seed exchanges; since the EU has restricted seed without a
phytosanitary certificate, I started emailing the permit & pdf of labels.

Here's where I got into trouble: one of the plant societies used a
different shipping label, which had already been used by another plant
society or seed company, and my package got held up at the port of entry.

Luckily, the USDA inspector called me and provided an email address so I
could retroactively provide an unused shipping label, and the seeds were
forwarded on to me once all the paperwork was legal.

Since that incident, I've been taking screenshots of individual labels and
keeping a record of which labels I've used, so any mixups will be on my end!

-joe in SW VA, where my Calostemma purpureum from Telos is blooming for the
first time, maybe triggered by back-to-back hurricanes?

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 11:52 AM R Hansen via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

> Regarding the fact ApHIS labels are printed 4 to a sheet. I just do one of
> two things. I cut out the appropriate label and mail or I cut out and scan
> that label and email, then put a cross on that label that was scanned so I
> don't reuse, although, having accidentally reused the same label before I
> realized they were numbered, no one noticed the duplication!
>
> Robin Hansen
> Coquille, Oregon
>
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