Good advice to always get the money up front. most people on forums have Paypal, so a Paypal account is a good thing to have.

Maybe back to the pony express days. I guess Fed Ex and UPS don't want to deal with envelopes.

louise said:Thanks for the information. Most of my deals have been handled
in Tmail because of revealing mailing addresses, mine and theirs.
That's where I've been explaining that I send a package after I receive
their postage payment. Before frost, I always have many plants or
cuttings that I need to find a home for as I prepare for winter.

Many of my plants go all the way back to DG - that was before the
postage rates kept going up and up and up. And now, they are
saying the post office is in serious default. What next?????


Louise

The post office is NOT in serious default. They have been required to do something which no other gov't run program has been asked to do, which is to prepay their pensions for umpteen years, and that money has been transferred to other areas. (Wars, maybe?) may have the details wrong here, but the problems with the post office have been seriously misstated. "They" just want to privatize everything,so the profit will go to "Them" and they can charge what they wish. As in the general push to "privatize" everything.

I agree with Caitlin's comments about the post office. In many ways they are doing things right. The problem is that they are considered private, but controlled by Congress. Congress will not allow them to close unprofitable ones, and it has been a major fight to allow them to close on Saturdays (I think that is occurring later this summer - which I will hate!) But the major problem is that they have to fund their employees pensions for something like 99 years in advance - NOONE - government or private is required to do that. It is very extreme. I never thought that they may be using that money for other things though, interesting ~Jan

32 plus pre 1900 historic iris. Benton House Historic Garden, Indianapolis, IN.
Green Initiative of the Irvington Garden Club.

Superstition Iris Gardens has historics.

Benton1873 said:32 plus pre 1900 historic iris. Benton House Historic Garden, Indianapolis, IN.
Green Initiative of the Irvington Garden Club.

Benton1873--Can you give any more information about this? Does the garden have sales? How often? How are they conducted? Is there a listing of their iris holdings available?

Thanks,
Brett