(HOT) Australia trials new technology to intercept seeds sent in the mail

time to start growing some seeds instead of avoiding them eh?

Hmm this might explain a few missing packages of mine too, hadn't had any issues up until November! Bugger!

So has anyone received orders in the last few weeks into Australia and if so from which bank please? Xmas maybe a good time to order due to the volume of mail they would have a hard time catch everything coming through.

Prob time to speak to friends in other countrys to send single seed 1 at a time when u get them start ur own seeds then u wont need to worry for a looooong time lol in return for a free holiday for a month if it works lol

As a far backup sure .. but has anyone got any beans from OS to Oz in the last few weeks ?

f.r said:

In Australia's case Biosecurity is very important, we are an Island continent.

I've had first hand experience dealing with a pretty bad quarantine breach, involved like a 25km radius to be monitored around the business. DPI don't play around, but could of introduced a vector for dengi fever not something we want in Australia, even if we don't have the disease itself.

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Every continent on earth is an island!

greg nr said:

time to start growing some seeds instead of avoiding them eh?

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This is good advice for all of us no matter where you live. Seeds represent the promise of a green future and self reliance is the key.

Pistil Kid said:

As a far backup sure .. but has anyone got any beans from OS to Oz in the last few weeks ?

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no. i am 0/3 since July... getting desperate

0/2 seedsman
0/1 attiitude

reasonable amount of $$ out of pocket so far

Yep ive lost more seedsman and attitude packs than received in the last 3 months
Lost a phenohut order but he reshipped and made it

Ordered a small seed city order at xmas and that came in a week! I actually think ive only lost 1 of about a dozen seed city orders in the last 6 months

Delicious seeds uses fedex and thats never been an issue either. This was before announcement of the seed xray tho


Very hit and miss atm, more misses than hits

I just ordered from a vendor in the States so it will be interesting to see if my order makes it. I have ordered from this breeder previously without issue it took 3 weeks to arrive, so I will post the result. Can other Australian buyers please post the results of their orders as it would be interesting to note how many are actually getting through now.

That will explain why I never received an order placed back in sept/Oct 2020, used seedsman for a few years and were great but now they won't re-send even if it was an insured order.. just flushed 200bucks down the drain. At least I can now put it behind me. Anyone got Aus hookups for quality seeds? Cheers

NotTheFeds said:

That will explain why I never received an order placed back in sept/Oct 2020, used seedsman for a few years and were great but now they won't re-send even if it was an insured order.. just flushed 200bucks down the drain. At least I can now put it behind me. Anyone got Aus hookups for quality seeds? Cheers

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Just received my order from seedsman, 4th resend, can't complain about the service, also exotic genetics only took under 3weeks, weedseeds express 2nd resend arrived in a couple of weeks so after a couple of hiccups all good on saying that I changed my mail address to Queensland

True I was told 2x resends and that was it