Re: [ccp4bb]: shipping-dry-dewar-out-of-Heathrow

[Chris Waddling <waddling@msg.ucsf.edu>]

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I say just send it via an express overnight shipping service and arrange for
someone at the beamline to receive it for you.

(Or is this just my North American, pre-9/11, naïveté?  We've done this
within the US using FedEx and everything has been as smooth as silk.

Chris


On 3/22/02 2:27 AM, "Sax Mason" <mason@ill.fr> wrote:

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> re Peter Keller's comment below
> 
> In a similar vein, remember that crystals in alcoholic mother liquor
> can cause trouble, caused a visitor a long detour via another airline
> recently.
> Sax Mason
> 
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> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:37:51 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
> From: Peter Keller <keller@ebi.ac.uk>
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> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]: shipping-dry-dewar-out-of-Heathrow
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> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Yves Muller wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> I apologize to those this does not concern. I wonder if anybody could
>> give me some advise on how to ship a CP100 dry dewar out of Heathrow on
> 
> Another tip: be careful what you say abont the sample composition. One
> person I know got stuck like this because someone at the airline insisted
> on checking each element of organometallic crystals that were being taken
> to a neutron source. The airline's response went something like this:
> 
> "... but it contains hydrogen: it might explode, and it contains
> phosphorus so it might spontaneously combust, and it contains ...."
> 
> I'm sure you get the idea.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter.