Re: Fed Ex Shipment

["Roy A. Parker" <royaparker@COMPUSERVE.COM>]

Fed Ex ShipmentFederal Express is now several different and independently operated companies.  FedEx Express is what most people think of as FedEx.  FedEx Ground. FedEx Freight. FedEx Home Delivery. FedEx Kinko's. FedEx Custom Critical. FedEx Trade Networks. FedEx Supply Chain Services.



FedEx Express does accept radioactive material shipments.  FedEx Ground does not.



Roy A. Parker, Ph.D.

roy@royparker.org

Tel: 225-924-1473

Fax: 225-924-4269

  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: Mercado, Don 

  To: radsafe 

  Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 10:29 AM

  Subject: Fed Ex Shipment





  Good Wednesday everyone, 



  I'm trying to get a Cs-137 instrument calibration source reloaded so I'm shipping it to the manufacturer for refurbishment. Yesterday I got word from our shipping folks that Fed Ex Ground Shipment had picked up the package, then returned it to us without delivering it. Fed Ex indicated that they didn't have any problem with the packaging or accompanying paperwork, just that they were no longer shipping any type of radioactive material. Fed Ex no longer shipping *any* radioactive material? Even medical isotopes? That's new to me.



  Has anyone had a problem shipping RM via Fed Ex? What did I miss? 



  Donald P. Mercado 

  Radiation Safety Officer 

  Explosives Safety Officer 

  Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company 

  O/9K-92, B/157 

  1111 Lockheed Martin Way 

  Sunnyvale, CA 94089 

  Ph. (408) 742-0759 

  Fx. (408) 756-0504 

  Don.Mercado@lmco.com