Posted on 09/01/2015 9:16:52 AM PDT by b4its2late
A package of radioactive material that was supposed to be delivered to an on-campus office at Texas A&M University has gone missing, CBS affiliate KBTX reports.
According to an internal email sent by Christopher Meyer, an assistant VP with the Office of Safety and Security, the FedEx shipment of was sent from Science Engineering and Education Company in Edina, Minnesota. The company makes radioactive material for equipment and research, KBTX reported.
In a statement to KBTX, a Texas A&M spokesperson said the school is confident the package was not received by the university's Radiation Safety Office.
"We obviously want to locate this package as quickly as possible because it does contain radioactive material, but we hasten to add it doesn't present a health threat to the community provided the contents, which are secured in a box with two layers of inner containment, are not disturbed," the statement said.
The university said it had reported the missing shipment "to all appropriate federal and state regulatory agencies."
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LOL!
Yeah, good luck on that! We shipped an item by FedEx that had a paper trail. After going through the paper trail, it was discovered the delivery person “supposedly” left the package at the delivery address. On further examination, the employee “left” the package at a non-existent address. FedEx denied our claim and we were out $900. Letters of complaint to the chairman were unanswered. My research on the Internet revealed it is not uncommon for FedEx to deny claims. My only regret is that I couldn’t find an attorney willing to initiate a class action suit against FedEx as there appear to be a number of disgruntled and cheated customers.
That was an experiment I did back in high school. Took a Coleman lantern mantle, put it next to a chunk of camera film in a sealed envelope, then developed the film in the Camera Club's darkroom (remember those?). Clear image of the mantle on the developed film.
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