[NHCOLL-L:2651] Re: shipment restrictions

[Gregory Watkins-Colwell]

Eric,

Ask your Costa Rican visitor if the packages she gets with ETOH are 
properly labeled.

Greg


At 01:23 PM 5/11/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>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

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