But on the other hand if it had a rtn or to add to a medical lab and was leaking a ton of red stuff with a haz mat label,I would go through the pre scribed UPS method!
If it was leaking a ton........Jeeze, that would make it a suspicious package that is leaking an unknown substance, in which case you would leave and notify. But now you are dreaming up your version of the story, which does not resemble what was posted.
He did not see the package, he did not know that he had what looked like blood on it till later.
They do not have, nor do they need a Hazmat label to ship human blood.
The only difference is if the blood has been
tested and found to be positive for any number of illnesses. Then and only then does it become a hazmat.
So since the blood is being sent out to be tested, it does not require a hazmat sticker.
There are tens of thousands of vials of blood being sent out each day to be tested. Very few are to be tested for issues that you need to be worried about. Most are routine to test for mundane things like cholesterol, drug use, or in drug studies, the level of the test drug in you system.
Human blood that is collected for testing is never shipped in an Irreg container. They are also sealed off in containers that will allow the retention of the blood inside the package should one of the vials leak. To have enough blood to saturate the outside of the box would require enough to do a transfusion with, and those are shipped even better packed.
So, in reality, it is very unlikely that the box was covered in blood, and if it was, it was most likely animal blood, which really does not have any issues to the human.
The reason a doc wears gloves to draw your blood is to protect you from him, not him from you. Bare hands on or near a wound is the #1 way of transmitting problems from the care giver to the patient.
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