[Rockhounds] TUCSON!- Damaged shipments

[Jim Daly]

Another question : does anyone have any recent experience by sending
radio-active mineral samples abroad ? I know that it is not wise to put them
in you hand luggage anyway, but can it still be sent as a post parcel or so
?The USPS has rather forcefully informed me that no radioactive materials can go through the US mailI've sent quite a few, but only micros, so they weren't detected. I also wrap them in aluminum foil.The problem I encountered was a shipment from the Netherlands that was exceptionally "hot". I was called to the USPS facility at O'Hare airport in Chicago to come and get it- they wouldn't transport it to my home in Indiana.Jim Daly

Grts,

Rik DILLEN 
E-mail rik.dillen at skynet.be 
Homepage : http://users.skynet.be/rik.dillen 

MINERANT 2009
9-10/5/2009
Antwerp Expo - Antwerpen - Belgium
www.minerant.org

-----Original Message-----
From: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com
[mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Ward
Sent: zondag 22 februari 2009 20:23
To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] TUCSON!- Damaged shipments

I shipped home several 18x18x20 packages using FedEX and one of them 
arrived with the corners
blown out and the inner packing sticking out through the holes. Never 
seen that happen before.

Kevin



At 12:24 PM 2/22/2009, you wrote:
>I had ok experienced with USPS this year, but I got killed by both 
>UPS and FEDEX.
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim"
<nospam at orerockon.com>
>To: "'Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem 
>collectors'" <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
>Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 12:47 PM
>Subject: RE: [Rockhounds] TUCSON!- Damaged shipments
>
>
>>I too have had more ripped up Priority Mail shipments (in the USPS'
boxes)
>>than ever before. I think the USPS decided that treating packages like
they
>>were having a pillow fight with them is now the "norm".
>>
>>Tim Fisher
>>Ore-ROCK-On!
>>Email address at http://OreRockOn.com
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com
>>[mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of Gene
Hartstein
-
>>Fossilnut.com
>>Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 9:24 AM
>>To: Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors
>>Subject: [Rockhounds] TUCSON!- Damaged shipments
>>
>>I have another question for folks who go to Tucson to buy and ship a
lot
of
>>stuff back. I noted I had a lot more breakage this year on material I
>>shipped. I've been going to Tucson to buy for over a decade and
this year
>>for some reason I had more breakage than all previous years combined. 
I
was
>>
>>wondering if anyone else had that problem this year?
>>
>>I used the same packing materials and techniques I always do but just
cannot
>>
>>explain this. Everything gets put into a flat, with lots of wrapping,
the
>>flats get filled the rest of the way with paper and or peanuts. The
flats
>>get taped shut, and heavy stuff goes in its own flat. The flats go into
>>shipping boxes with peanuts and paper to take up any empty space.
>>
>>There is no evidence of the boxes getting crushed or anything, but
dropping
>>or throwing boxes would not necessarily show up.
>>
>>My best experience remains with flat rate, priority mail but not
everything
>>fits in those boxes.
>>
>>Gene Hartstein
>>Newark, DE
>>
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