When we got back to Baghdad last week, my first task was wading through 200+ emails that had accumulated in my inbox.
I was able to quickly delete many of them, but there was one that stopped me in my tracks. It was an informational email on items that were "standard prohibited and restricted items" from our USPS packages. In other words, what people should not send us and what we should not send them through the mail.
I won't do the comprehensive list, but why we take a look at the first 10?
1. Alcoholic beverages
2. Collectible and/or irreplaceable items
3. Collect on Delivery shipments
4. Human corpses, human organs or body parts, human and animal embryos or cremated remains.
5. Bullion
6. Explosives and incendiary devices.
7. Firearms
8. Live animals, eggs, larva, live insects and live spiders.
9. Drugs/narcotics
10. Processed or unprocessed dead animals, including insects and pets.
Ok, go.
For me...so many of the items raise an eyebrow and make me wonder what has been done in the past. I mean human corpses? Processed or unprocessed dead animals? Including, I don't know, INSECTS AND PETS? But, ok...I can see it's not a good idea to send these items.
The FUNNIEST thing to me, was that amidst these rather crazy and/or dangerous items one stood out.
Bullion.
Like, beef or chicken? I mean did someone have a bad experience with soup? (Corpses, Bullion, Explosives.) I dunno, I felt this was important to put out for those of you who might mail a care package....I would hate for anyone to get flagged for a corpse....or some bullion.
I was able to quickly delete many of them, but there was one that stopped me in my tracks. It was an informational email on items that were "standard prohibited and restricted items" from our USPS packages. In other words, what people should not send us and what we should not send them through the mail.
I won't do the comprehensive list, but why we take a look at the first 10?
1. Alcoholic beverages
2. Collectible and/or irreplaceable items
3. Collect on Delivery shipments
4. Human corpses, human organs or body parts, human and animal embryos or cremated remains.
5. Bullion
6. Explosives and incendiary devices.
7. Firearms
8. Live animals, eggs, larva, live insects and live spiders.
9. Drugs/narcotics
10. Processed or unprocessed dead animals, including insects and pets.
Ok, go.
For me...so many of the items raise an eyebrow and make me wonder what has been done in the past. I mean human corpses? Processed or unprocessed dead animals? Including, I don't know, INSECTS AND PETS? But, ok...I can see it's not a good idea to send these items.
The FUNNIEST thing to me, was that amidst these rather crazy and/or dangerous items one stood out.
Bullion.
Like, beef or chicken? I mean did someone have a bad experience with soup? (Corpses, Bullion, Explosives.) I dunno, I felt this was important to put out for those of you who might mail a care package....I would hate for anyone to get flagged for a corpse....or some bullion.
gold? :) gold bullion definitely gives me bad experiences...
ReplyDeletefor sure gold. but that isn't as funny--and-- my first thought was definitely chicken. :)
ReplyDeleteI guess I won't send you that squirrel after all... (and for the record, my first thought was chicken as well). xo.
ReplyDeleteBut I was going to send you some bouillon just in case you didn't have any. Since I don't have any bullion, I guess it doesn't matter. Also, it looks like we will have to wait on sending you the human body parts as well.
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