Tropicshells

Shipping and handling

All orders are handled in a professional manner and shipped without delay once payment is received.

We ship worldwide. We can send your order via ocean, train, ground and air freight using major transportation lines only. For express shipments, we use DHL, UPS and FED-EX.

All orders are shipped freight collect from Port-au-Prince (Haiti) or Miami (USA) depends on our pre-arranged agreement. For pre-paid shipment, all shipping cost must be received.

Packing

Standard:

We use corrugated double wall carton boxes for our packaging. Cleaned and painted shells are packed in 4 mill one gallon plastic bags. Large shells are individually wrapped in paper to protect their edges. Natural shells and tea products are packed in burlap 25 kilos sugar sac.

Special:

We offer special contract packaging to fit your standards, with your labels. Contact us for a quote. We package from 1oz to 25 kilos sac for shells and tea products.

For live animals, we used cooler boxes for which there is a $10 box fee. There is no fee for standard corrugated carton boxes.

Special crab packaging:

We sell live hermit crabs in their natural shells, cleaned shells, polished shells and painted shells. We offer special contract to have the hermit crabs changed to a painted, polished or cleaned shells. We used an animal stress free process that we developed. We have them changed in mass and the cost is reasonable. Please contact us for a quote.email addres