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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: MacMan on December 14, 2011, 05:13 am

Title: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: MacMan on December 14, 2011, 05:13 am
Could someone tell me when do i need to worry about x-ray proofing packages? And how do you do it?

Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: cache on December 14, 2011, 07:26 am
Easiest way is to wrap it in lead....
Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: Roger67 on December 14, 2011, 07:35 pm
i went on a national flight once, the security guy at the xray said: "do you have cheese in your bag?"
i did have a piece of cheese in it.
Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: novocaine on December 14, 2011, 10:07 pm
lmao you cheese runner you 8)

I  heard kryptonite works.
Also a tin foil hat...
Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: MacMan on December 14, 2011, 10:38 pm
For real? I am totally ignorant to this so idk if your joking lol. By lead do you mean there is some kind of lead paper or somethin?
Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: cache on December 15, 2011, 09:41 am
http://www.anglianroofingsupplies.co.uk/lead-flashing-code-6-6m/lead-flashing-code-6-210mm-8-inches-x-6m.html

Get this type of item and double wrap your package in it before putting it into the outer container, guaranteed x-ray proof.
Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: murungu on December 15, 2011, 10:27 am
mac man, They are shitting you about the lead, I was dismissed from the TSA for sniffing ladies underwear without authorised clearance from the Navy in Annapolis, and I can reliably advise you that a tinfoil hat is definitely the way to go, but if you are not travelling with the item, then kraft spreadable cheese will throw off the machine. The dogs may pick up on the cheese, but nobody will suspect the hat.
Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: cache on December 15, 2011, 10:44 am
Stop playing this guy, he knows that Kraft cheese wont do jack. You need to pack a Slim-Jim in each package, if you are concerned with dogs, and then wrap in the lead. Or, failing that, keister it and jump on a plane.
Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on December 15, 2011, 11:15 am
i went on a national flight once, the security guy at the xray said: "do you have cheese in your bag?"
i did have a piece of cheese in it.

...cos i think they are able to tell from experience by the colour coding on their screens of the contents.

Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: redforeva on December 17, 2011, 05:02 am
I tried to bring an older cheese (liqidy) from charles de-gaulle to jfk. MFW they found my cheese!  :-[
Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: AmberDing on December 18, 2011, 07:43 am
If its in your hand luggage the biggest risk is that an experienced Customs officer will notice you're not acting right. There was a nice period when they didnt check anything unless you had an interesting record ( I used to get pulled all the time, but I was interesting so cant complain), 9/11 spoil all that.

Safest place with a small package is to plug it, they'll never search there if the rest of you is clean and your confidence shines through.

If you're posting then never, ever use lead - makes them think you're smuggling something radioactive, and that's worth a promotion if they find that! Apart from anything else, felt how heavy it is?

I'm so paranoid I watch all those customs programs and they keep pulling stuff wrapped in carbon paper, obviously suggest that people think it does something, and obviously it doesnt.

Whenever possible stick to envelopes, they rarely get checked properly, unless they are from somewhere like India and smell!
Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: murungu on December 20, 2011, 03:20 pm
OK I give in! Amberding, you win as the funniest totally you gotta be shittin me post so far.... :o

Go on admit it, you wrote the Feds MANUAL for those arseholes, din'cha? "If the rest of you is clean, they'll never look for it 'there'???

Reeeeaaaly? No WONDER you became 'interesting' to them, ya mong!

Faaaack me! LMFACleanOff!!!!!!
Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: AmberDing on December 20, 2011, 08:20 pm
Good customs officers are practically psychic i reckon, but if the only dodgy thing is somewhere that's a pain in the arse to search for you dont start twitching when they search your hand luggage. As long as you are pretty respectable looking they will find someone more interesting to bother.

When I was interesting (dreadlocks etc) it was always French customs who hit on me, usually when leaving their country too. Funny thing was, you'd always get a couple of guys going through your luggage/car/etc but whilst you were waiting the young trainee type one would sidle up to me and say "hey, about we go for a quick smoke of some weed round the back? Dont worry about them, they wont notice us". First time that happened I thought the guy was just a French idiot, second time about 6 months later same thing happens almost word for word. Guess it must be in the training manual, and people probably fall for it too. Got our revenge with the 3 month old cheese in the (non) coolbox that we had duct taped closed to keep the smell in - they thought they'd got our main stash until they opened that.

Just sharing my experiences, altho I seem to have wandered off the topic of posting parcels.
Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: cache on December 21, 2011, 08:50 am
And wandered back to the topic of cheese!
Title: Re: When do you need to worry about x-ray proofing packages?
Post by: AmberDing on December 21, 2011, 01:35 pm
Yes, cheese is the way forward, no way they were searching that box. Sorry about the other really bad pun in that previous comment too, it was late and whatever I was smoking was leaving blue/black traces on my tube, as I have just discovered.