[NHCOLL-L:2650] shipment restrictions

[Eric Lazo-Wasem]

I was forwarded the recent thread concerning dangerous goods restrictions, 
and have now rejoined the list to add my own experiences.

We sent a package to Costa Rica earlier this year, properly labelled for 
excepted and limited quantities, and it was returned, unopened, from 
Panama.  FEDEX claims Costa Rica does not accept any quantities of 
dangerous goods.  Interestingly, my visitor from Costa Rica claims that she 
routinely receives ethanol preserved specimens for not only other 
countries, but the Smithsonian Institution.

Poland does not accept dangerous goods anymore, but Germany does, so we 
have shipped to the former via the latter.

Eric

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
Senior Collections Manager                       voice: 203 432 3784
Division of Invertebrate Zoology                  FAX:  203 432 9816
Peabody Museum, Yale University
170 Whitney Ave. , P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118