Day: July 14, 2013

09:44 – While Barbara cleans house this morning, I’m making up international chemicals bags for both the biology and chemistry kits. I need both because I have outstanding orders for both that are to ship tomorrow. Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to build an international kit of either type. I just open a US-only biology kit or chemistry kit, remove the “problem” (restricted) chemicals, drop in the appropriate bag of international substitute chemicals, and transfer the contents of the box to one of the boxes we use for international shipping. Those are larger than the USPS-provided boxes we use for US and APO/FPO shipments, which leaves room for more padding. I’ve never had a kit damaged when I used the USPS boxes for shipments to Canada and APO/FPO addresses, but these internationalized kits will be going to Great Britain, Australia, Hong Kong, and so on, so a bit of extra padding might be a good idea.

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