This is a hilarious AF story about how the USPS once lost a box of my bugs and had extreme regrets. If you are bug phobic, this is your warning. There’s no photos of the bugs, just the poor mangled box.
Lets begin! Some of you probably remember earlier this year I lost a shipment of dubias. Since I was busy working with the seller on what the heck to do about that I forgot to ever post the full story. It’s great, I promise.
In Jan I ordered a shipment of dubias like usual, and it’s normally only 2 days to get here. By the 4th day in the mail I’m wondering what is the hold up, but also figure hey, holiday rush is still on, no biggie. Now, these only have to go from Kansas to Oklahoma, so when I pull up the tracking info I’m surprised to find they detoured to Cali. No biggie they’ll be a little late until the box totally disappeared.
There was suddenly no tracking info available for this package, it vanished into the postal system along with my 200 dubia. After a week of live bugs being in the mail I’ve given them up as unlikely to arrive alive. By the 2nd week I’ve accepted they are never coming home. This is where I am wrong.
I get a mystery package, not that unusual honestly. But the damaged notice? Now that was odd indeed! Opening the box was pretty crazy too:
Weird a garbage bag? WAIT A FAMILIAR GREEN STICKER!
By George it’s those lost dubia, poor bastards. Now at this point I should have known something was up, I mean why bags? Why 2 bags? But the only thing I can do is sit here and look at this poor destroyed box.
THOROUGHLY destroyed might I add. Also very slightly soggy? It was raining in Cali at the time it was there though, this makes some sense. Likely got left out somewhere. But wow it sure got a number done to it!
Now I’ll have to make a note here, the company I buy from does 2 things that are highly relevant here. Firstly, they send a small deli cup of food for your bugs with every shipment. Secondly, they also put a smaller box inside the larger one that contains the bugs.
Dubia food: busted open and missing. Inner box: OPEN. Bugs: ALIVE but half are missing
SUDDENLY THE BAGS MAKE SENSE. SUDDENLY I REALIZE SOMEWHERE A POSTAL WORKER HAD A BOX LEAKING DUBIAS ALL OVER THEIR POST. I LAUGHED SO HARD I CRIED.
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