Shipping to Scotland

[Roy Parker <RoyAParker@compuserve.com>]

James,

You are  the victim  of terminology.   Exempt  quantity  of  radioactive
material is  a licensing  term and not a transportation term.  There are
exempt quantities  of all other transportation hazard classes except for
explosives and radioactive materials.

You are  meaning excepted package, limited quantity of material.  In the
transportation world there is a big difference.

There are  some other  problems even  with an  excepted package, limited
quantity of material to Scotland.

Please contact me.


Roy A. Parker, Ph.D.
Radiation Physics Consultant
to Federal Express Corporation
E-Mail: roy@royparker.org
Tel: 225-924-1473
Fax: 225-924-4269

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I am trying to ship an exempt quantity package that has dry ice to
Scotland. Federal express has informed me that they can ship all
radioactive packages except exempt quantities. This does not make sense
to me, but I need to ship this ASAP and could use some advice as to how
to get this to Scotland. I have contacted other shipping companies and
the one option is to use 30 lbs of dry ice to account for the time the
company needs to get the package to Scotland. How do vendors ship their
packages to Scotland?

Thanks in advance.
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