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Thailand Post rescues living tortoises from parcels

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Thailand Post rescues living tortoises from parcels
By Coconuts Bangkok

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Photo: Thailand Post

BANGKOK: -- Thailand Post this morning shared the most recent stupid and cruel smuggling attempt involving its delivery service.

The state mail carrier shared photos of two tortoises cut free of their bubble wrap-bondage, duct tape and cardboard to remind other customers the organization doesn’t deliver living things.

"Sending living creatures through Thailand Post is prohibited and might damage other packages. [read more...]

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2014/07/09/thailand-post-rescues-living-tortoises-parcels

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-- Coconuts Bangkok 2014-07-09

Need some big rocks to fill those parcels biggrin.png

The black shell is amazing - are these destined for the pot, or exotic pets, I wonder...

Need some big rocks to fill those parcels biggrin.png

The black shell is amazing - are these destined for the pot, or exotic pets, I wonder...

It's a Radiated tortoise, native to Mauritius and Madagascar, and is protected under CITES, so I'm guessing someone smuggled it into Thailand and decided this was a good way to get it to the recipient.

Both should face court, but of course they won't.

Not sure about the one on the left, but no doubt the same applies.

Added: *Could* be legal (although I doubt it) - "Breeding stock and specimens destined for export are marked with transponders."

pity they cannot detect my gmmz hd box that has gone walk about

Forget the issue of a tortoise bound up in a box being posted to it's maker.

They could have damaged other parcels.

"and might damage other packages" - I guess that is really relevant to the criminal problem, of "posting" live tortoises?

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