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[*] posted on 23-3-2013 at 07:02


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So what do these Exempt Packs retail for, roughly?




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[*] posted on 23-3-2013 at 08:27


My company would buy in bulk, we had a wall full of them for shipping off samples of hazardous waste (which amusingly enough could not legally be called waste to ship with a common carrier). Our price was around $8 each.



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[*] posted on 25-3-2013 at 13:33


I've done some search on regulations for several companies, including my national postal service. Two companies don't even mention it, the national postal service strictly forbids it by law, and DHL is ambiguous about it. First they say they're capable of shipping every kind of dangerous goods out there, and then they say they ship dry ice and samples of dangerous goods, and then they say it's forbidden to send anything flammable, corrosive, oxidizing, poisonous, infectious, radioactive, magnetic, as well as gases and medical waste. Oh, and ammunition, too.
I guess table salt is out of the question, too, as it's corrosive to metals.

So yeah... Now I have no idea how the hell my supplier manages to override all this bullshit, or how pharmacies obtain ethanol, or how colleges obtain just about anything. Maybe they lie about the contents of the package because it's cheaper to deal with the consequences of the highly unlikely events of something going wrong? :)




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