Per the USDA: "A PPQ 526 permit is required for the importation, interstate movement and environmental release of all insects and mites that feed upon or infest plants or plant products, including agricultural crops, trees, shrubs, native plants, etc." http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/permits/organism/insects.shtml Per Wayne Wehling of the USDA: "APHIS Plant Pest Permits (PPQ 526) are required for the interstate movement or importation of any living life stage of indigenous or exotic Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). Another way to say it is: permits are required to possess live exotic Lepidoptera or live Lepidoptera obtained from another state." http://www.butterflybreeders.org/pages/permitting_corner.html I believe it was back in 2000 when we were told that the USDA was going to relax regulations when it came to shipping giant silk moth eggs but that never happened, AFAIK.

It depends on the company's policies, and that means the cabinets hop as well as the cabinet company. Each will have different guidelines. With some lines, and a flexible design shop, if all you're changing is the doorstyle, that's a simple signed change order and another check for the difference, and a phone call. With others, it's a cancellation penalty, and then a laborious paperwork "return" of product that hasn't been produced, and another sale with the amended information. I would suggest putting the whole project on hold though until you receive a sample door of what you are considering. You may well change your mind yet again.

I have ordered from them a few times... Let me start by saying they were very eager to please and correspond with me. I live in WI and mail here takes FOREVER. It took a month or more for my orders to get here (with the exception of one order that took 2 weeks for some reason). All orders were packaged immaculately and the plants were HUGE. After a month of travel though the plants were rotting in the box. They were very kind to send replacements and I was able to salvage cuttings from everything except hypolasia (which is a pain in the fanny anyway). I think the more robust leaved species do best and anything with thin leaves is a gamble but I am always game to try! Hope this helps.

I went to the Federal Building in person in San Francisco (next to The Civic Center) to get my first passport, but that was in 1975. I don't remember any more details than that, but I think I went back to the Federal Building when I had to have it renewed. It used to be more difficult to get a passport than it is now. I also went to the Federal Building in Los Angeles when I first had my passport renewed here. Before I went to Brazil, I had to get a visa, which cost $60 or $80 (good for 10 years), at the Brazilian Consulate in Los Angeles, and that took two months, during which time they held my passport. A couple of years later they dropped the requirement of paying for a visa, but the reason they had it was that the U.S. required payment for visas for Brazilians coming here. My current passport expires Jan 2023, and I plan to apply for a renewal two months before that, even though I do not have travel plans until next summer. I do not have a California "real" ID, and so I need my passport for any domestic travel. I never expect the government to be efficient, and that starts with the post office.