Damn. Does this mean I have to give up using all my free range raised giant cockroaches instead of petroleum based packing peanuts!
Joe Bender-Zanoni "They sure had free range under the old Bicycle Renaissance" Great Notch, NJ
> Ted,
>
> Remember organic material can make excellent padding.
>
> Yours in Cycling,
>
> Gilbert Anderson
>
> North Road Bicycle Company
> 519 W North St
> Raleigh, NC 27603
> USA
> toll free: 800-321-5511
> local: 919-828-8999
> e-mail: cyclestore@aol.com
> On Jun 11, 2005, at 1:36 PM, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org
> wrote:
>
> > -LARGE brown roaches (both living and dead) identical
> > to the ones that have infested South East Texas. The
> > things are HUGE, have wings, and fly!!!
> >
> > -Giant red "fire ants" (alive) that I only recall
> > seeing in St. Louis as a 5-year-old child,
> >
> > -a dead dragon-fly from a seller in Georgia,
> >
> > -many of those little "ear-wigs" that have the pincher
> > on the front. I find the majority of these to be
> > hiding between cogs in old filthy freewheels. They
> > also hide in the cracks below old leather saddles,
> > inside of seat posts, and down in the dark depths of
> > old frame seat tubes.
> >
> > I think if the buyer is going to do the seller the
> > favor of buying his/her item and on top of that pay
> > for shipping, the seller should at least keep the
> > insects out of the box.
> >
> > Ted E. Baer
> > "trying to work the bugs out"
> > Palo Alto, CA