If you have a local club or know of people in the area interested in an exchange you can simply meet in person. Shipping leaves is fairly easy too. Cut them from the plant, wrap the cut portion in a moistened paper towel. Take a piece of tin foil and wrap it around this. The tin foil keeps things in place. Put each variety in a small, labeled zip top bag. Pack the bags loosely in a box to avoid crushing. Priority mail is fine, but ship early in the week so they don't sit on Sunday. Don't ship when temps are in the mid-80's to 90's at either location without an appropriately-sized cool pack. Cold weather shipping requires some insulation, and possibly a hot pack.

I got a reply back from them. It says, "I apologize for the pricing discrepancy with your order. The indicator is if the return address on the advertisement is for our office in the United States. Our advertisements are in a number of magazines from the United States that are available in Canada, which can cause confusion for placing orders within Canada as our system will order it with the Canadian pricing. If you wish to keep your order, I can apply a credit to reduce the total to match the original pricing you saw. Please let me know how you wish to proceed. Customer Service Supervisor bradfordexchange.ca" The problem I have with his excuse is, I got the offer in a direct mailer, not a magazine ad. I still have the envelope. It's from Canada. Everything in it is from Canada. Nothing in it is from the US. I told them they can have their item back. It's all sealed up and labeled and ready to go back to the post office.

This interesting topic led me to do some looking around for more information. I learned that what I'd always thought of as the "machine readable" bank routing and account numbers at the bottom of the check came into use in the late 1950s. This system is called MICR, micro ink character recognition. Magnetic readers were all that was available at that time for this task so the numbers were printed on checks with magnetic ink. Reading that reminded me of yesteryear when returned checks had that the check amount printed at the bottom right of the check. This was presumably added by a machine operated manually by a bank employee actually reading the check. The banks and clearing houses then used mag reader machines (as described before in use at retailers) to process checks. Anyway, turn to today. It's not exactly as gardengirl described. The Check Clearing Act for the 21st Century, a federal law passed in 2003, provides that an image of a check IS a legal check and that the physical original check need not be passed through the system at all if an image is used in its place. That's why you can deposit a check using a smart phone or scanner, and why the bank doesn't return cancelled checks but rather makes an image available to a customer (readily obtained online). Bank records (also available online) can be used in place of actual checks for legal and tax purposes. When a bank receives a physical check as a deposit, it takes an image of the check (as well as the deposit slip, if the deposit took place in person) and destroys the pieces of paper. These images are what's available to see online when you access your account. So, to TG's information - stores using MICR readers are using technology that's over 50 years old. Checks DO NOT need to have magnetically readable ink. Yes, they're doing that to cut down on check handling but it's not their only alternative. Apple and Android Pay, other proximity (non-contact) cards are also available for use. Optical readers with OCR capability can also be used, just like every smart phone can do with a bank app. It will get to a point when retailers and other businesses won't accept checks.

hmm.I thought I had commented here but it was likely another thread about those super attractive facebook ads. There was another company that kept coming up on my facebook feeds- talk about great targeting. The styles were exactly what I want. I started seeing tons of favorable comments, and from time to time a poster asking for more info. The ads I saw only had Made in USA (not a specific). Itried googling with the name, and nothing came up. I commented on the post asking where in the USA it was made, and they replied South Carolina. I then googled and did find an address in South Carolina, but it was clearly not any place for manufacturing. If I remember correctly, the google earth image was of a store front in a strip mall. Probably just a mailing address or maybe a shipping depot. I decided not to bother ordering. @Allyson Gillinder My husband had ordered from one of these sites-- a jacket that actually was really great but was not the size it was supposed to be. He reached out and was told he needed to return it. Yes shipping and all was going to cost plenty and they said "once received" they would initiate the credit. Since he didn't want to spend another $20 or $30 to ship it as a gamble, he disputed the charge. He also posted some very negative reviews. It took a few weeks, but the charge was ultimately reversed. I offered the jacket on buynothing. It's definitely worth disputing.