This is because many postal workers and passerby (I have this from breeders who ship a lot and from a former postal worker), when bored, frustrated, etc., may abuse a package they suspect might contain something live, for whatever reason. Therefore, a bit of reverse psychology often gives the package a greater chance of making it through the postal system without issue.
I wish I had that problem where there are scorpions everywhere... LOL
Have you gone looking for them? And by that I mean gone looking in good places with proper habitats where the scorpions are known to be found.
It is illegal to ship scorpions via USPS except for academic research.
I live in a suburban area where there isn't the correct habitat to find them.
Thank you for your info and I planed on being very honest and also much cheaper than everywhere else I just want people to have easy access to have these wonderful pets
Their are so many around we can literally go outside in the yard and get them even more of them at my woman's mothers house but yes we also can find them in blm areas thank you for your info will definitely look into getting permits if we actually start this venture
We can find all four examples almost anytime during the warm months here we are literally right in the center of the habitat
Ay, I believe it is unless one acquires a (export?) permit(s), and goes through all the necessary legal matters. Now that I think about it though, if one were to able to get a good broker/shipper (such as Reptile Express; they export to the Hamm show twice every year usually), it wouldn't be too difficult so long as nothing was CITES-listed or otherwise protected.
ah, this explains why american sellers have been not very excited to try selling to me. My student visa is still viable for 2 more years, so perhaps i will come to US myself sometime and bring the species back myself!
One needs export permits and the receiver needs permits. To give you and idea, to make it worth the time and money for me to import Ts from Europe, the order has to be at least 2,000$ .
That too is smuggling, illegal.
I am not sure if that would be wise. I have noticed (from personal experience no less), that American international airport security seems to be more rigorous than European, and most definitely Asian, African, Pacific-region, etc. airport security. It would not bode well for one to get caught in such a way.