Okay Mailman, Patrick, and George, here is a true story. It is not racist, it is the gods honest truth, I was there, and saw it happen. A number of years ago one of the drivers brought in a medium large dog crate that had the door and vent holes covered with paper. It was labeled, "Rush, Live Animal". The crate was so heavy it was all one man could do to lift and move it. Anyhow, some of the overally curious dock workers moved the crate and whatever was inside hissed! Well, one of them asked the driver, "do you have any idea what is in there," to which he said, "no, the office was closed and everyone was gone when he picked up the mail. It might be some sort of cat." So the dock worker went over to the crate and gave it a shake, and whatever was inside hissed again. His curiousity overly peaked, he decided to pull a little piece of the paper off the crate and looked inside. Upon observing the contents of the crate he instantly became several shades lighter complected and ran inside, refusing to return to the dock. Word quickly spread from inside what was in the crate, and most of the black workers made a bee line off of the dock, leaving us white folks behind. Inside the crate was an eight foot Burmese Python! As to the bee situation, what happens is many of the workers fear being stung, due to allergies. As you are aware some of the bees occaisionally escape from the wood and wire crate they are shipped in, and the workers fear the loose bees will sting them. I have explained numerous times to them that if they set the crate in one location that is open the loose bees will come to the crate and stay there with the rest of her pals. I further explain to them that the only thing they have to fear, regarding being bee stung, is if one of the loose ones gets caught in thier hair or clothing and stings while attempting to get free or if they were to crush one. I am seriously allergic to bee stings, and generally do not fear handling them, but those people who have never been around them do not understand how the domesticated bee acts, or how to treat them.

I feel sorry for them. What a bummer. You can only do what's best for your business. Silly APHIS. Were they worried that Royal Colors was importing drugs or something? hahahaha I shouldn't joke about that. That isn't nice. But seriously, what is their deal?

Darren, I have a very large seed bank of Moscheutos Hibiscus and some Syriacus (Rose of Sharon). Cant guarantee what the actual plant will be, but I have no problem mailing a bunch. I will send an email with the list of plants I collected them from. Will also Include plants I can send as cuttings this spring. If you want to drive here, you can have 1-3 Erin Rachaels that are over 4 years old and 3-5 foot in height, hahahaha. Ed

I 'block' email addresses in Hotmail with no problem. In a nutshell, go to your Hotmail and click on Options in the upper right hand corner. Choose More options Under "Preventing junk email" choose Safe and blocked senders Fill in their email address in the "Blocked email address or domain:" box and click Add to list Viola! If you get another one before getting him blocked just check the box in front of his email (in the inbox list) and choose Sweep. Then choose Block from. Then choose Block all. Once you hit 'enter' you should get the message, "Okay, you've added securityupdate@suntrust.com to your block list." It sounds like you probably did not have the addy on your actual blocked sender list.