I'm not sure.But having recently refurbished BA cargo world freight offices and worked in the bonded warehouse I know that everything coming off the plane is x-rayed before it even gets to the mail people. Large containers and freight packages now have air samples taken from them and are taken to a nearby lab for explosives and drugs dogs to check the samples. I know this because I've just built the kennels for them at Manchester.
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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Mon 10 Mar 2008, 16:16,
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hmmminteresting. but it still makes me wonder why an envelope, sent with normal mail should go missing apart from perhaps the poor service explanation. I wouldn't have thought that they scan all mail, it seems like overkill... I can understand why they would do it for the majority of airmail though.
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drbroon abloooobloobloo,
Mon 10 Mar 2008, 16:27,
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oh I've sent a box of200 pills in the UK mail before now. I'm sure you can get any old crap through that.
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Mon 10 Mar 2008, 16:29,
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