Shipping and the rules

When you offer shipping, every order is checked against the rules: ship days and services for live birds, transit time, bird age and weight, NPIP status, states’ entry requirements, USPS embargoes, and bird-flu restrictions kept current by our admins.

• Clear, cited rules block checkout, with the reason and the source. Other notes are warnings the buyer accepts.
• Permits and vet certificates a state needs become requirements you record before shipping.
• Certificates: add your NPIP and apiary registration on the Certificates page. We remind you 30 and 7 days before a test or registration lapses; a lapsed NPIP blocks interstate shipments until a vet certificate is entered.
• Labels: connect your own label account and buy labels from an order, or record a label you bought anywhere. Ship date, carrier and service are checked again when you record it.
• You can exclude states per product, and mark goods that can’t leave your state.

Every check is stored with the order as evidence.