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This RLA crap made my local newspaper today
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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 564769" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>This is the prohibited UPS dangerous goods listing:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ups.com/media/en/prohibited_2007.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ups.com/media/en/prohibited_2007.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The UPS prohibited items just happen to be the types that would require placarding if present in sufficient quantities ( or in any quantity for "dangerous when wet" and Rad III). </p><p> </p><p>Part of the reason for not wanting to ship DG that requires placarding is to prevent people thinking that their shipments of cookies to grandpa aren't riding in a truck side by side with "poison" or other nasty stuff. FedEx accepts this situaton since the revenue is so good with these types of shipments (many are charged a $60 per piece for ADG, $30 per piece for IDG). DG is a BIG revenue center for FedEx, since they are the only express shipper that accepts many of these shipments. In addition, there is a follow-up effect with shippers that ship haz; they tend to ship their non-haz shipments with FedEx too, since they can use a single carrier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 564769, member: 22880"] This is the prohibited UPS dangerous goods listing: [URL]http://www.ups.com/media/en/prohibited_2007.pdf[/URL] The UPS prohibited items just happen to be the types that would require placarding if present in sufficient quantities ( or in any quantity for "dangerous when wet" and Rad III). Part of the reason for not wanting to ship DG that requires placarding is to prevent people thinking that their shipments of cookies to grandpa aren't riding in a truck side by side with "poison" or other nasty stuff. FedEx accepts this situaton since the revenue is so good with these types of shipments (many are charged a $60 per piece for ADG, $30 per piece for IDG). DG is a BIG revenue center for FedEx, since they are the only express shipper that accepts many of these shipments. In addition, there is a follow-up effect with shippers that ship haz; they tend to ship their non-haz shipments with FedEx too, since they can use a single carrier. [/QUOTE]
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