[NHCOLL-L:4656] RE: DHL again

[Malcolm McCallum]

How about using someone other than DHL?
Are their alternative carriers?

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu on behalf of Watkins-Colwell, Gregory
Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 10:21 AM
To: nhcoll-L at lists.yale.edu
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:4655] DHL again
 
A while ago we had some discussion about DHL and USFWs (Sorry for the non-US folks.. this may not be too interesting).

Right now, this very second, I have an incoming package coming to U.S. from Italy.  DHL is holding it until US Fish and Wildlife can clear it.  The package contains tissue samples of a non-CITES lizard species.  DHL wants me to tell them all the answers to all the spots on the 3-177 so they can do the clearance.  Yet, I can do the clearance for FREE and I have 180 days to do it.  DHL will charge us a fee for doing the 3-177 for me and says they have to do it before delivering it.

Is there a way to get DHL to STOP doing this?  I've written them, called them, faxed them and e-mailed them.  But nobody that I talk to there seems to know the answer and none of them seems to have any clue about wildlife or the forms (i.e. the package says right on it all the information they need... even the shipping invoice that they faxed me has all the answers!)

Any suggestions?

Greg


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Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell
Division of Vertebrate Zoology
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
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