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You'll need a different prescription for them. One that stipulates a 90 day supply. Your regular 30 day one transferred to them won't work --well it will, but you will have to go through the hassle every 30 days.
My advice from 9 years in mail order.
Keep a copy of the original prescription you mailed in.
Don't bother with your doctor calling or faxing in in refills to mail order. Those stooges at mail order can never get that right. Mail in a hard copy instead.
Mail payment with the prescription. Call the mail order pharmacy and find out exactly what you will owe. They will withhold shipping until it's paid in full and the stooges probably won't bother to call you if you underpaid - they'll just cancel the order without letting you know.
Plan a minimum of one month in advance. -- Once you get that first mail order - put a date 2 months away on the bottle itself and then order ON THAT DATE. After that you'll be able to order on the reorder date printed by the pharmacy on the bottle - I hand write that date on all my bottles to make it easier to see and I also put reorders on the calendar that hangs on the fridge.
On critical meds, make sure you have a backup 30 day on file at the local pharmacy. Nearly all insurance companies will approve a local 30 day on critical meds if something happens and your order was lost or got hooked up on their end. You'll have to do this once a year as a prescription expires exactly one year from the date it was written. - keeping it on file on the time but not filling it unless you need it will give your a sense of security in case something happens.
Re-ordering on the net may be possible but don't do it. Call for reorders. The reason is that every time you send in a new prescription as the old one expires, then the stooges will give your med a NEW prescription number. When you order over the net the stooges will be too stupid to look at the medicine name and find the new prescription in your file and fill that instead of the number you gave them. They will just cancel it and not say a word until you call a month later and ask "where's my meds?" -- so always call -- you can order by the medicine name not the number.
Lastly - when you mail in a new hardcopy of a prescription - always have it filled immediately. Don't put it as refills on file. Make a point of mailing it about a month after you have gotten the last refill off the old prescription. That way you won't lose any of your refills.
Eventually you'll end up with some meds stockpiled and be tempted to delay ordering until you whittle your supply down. Be careful on that. I've done it and it was fine and I've done it and ended up in a race against the calendar because the stooges at mail order took 6 weeks to get me my meds.
Good luck -- it can work VERY well, once you know exactly what fleas come with your particular mail order dog -- so to speak.
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