Congrats on your orchie... Quite a Christmas present eh?

Dr Arnkoff did my orchie on 11/2/13....and like you, I couldn't be happier.

Welcome to the group...

john

Thank you.

What we need is that it is legal to castrate you if you want it. a ot of men and women would be happy with their new husband.

So I have an appointment with the doctor in March. I am very excited but I do have a question. Does he allow you to keep the testicles and if so is there any legal way to get them on a plane or mail them back home? The easiest preservation methods I've found require ethyl alcohol which have many restrictions both on a plane and by mail.

Do not put body parts in the US Mail. Just don't even try it. You might want to look at your separated testicles but the US Post Office does not want to carry them. It's prohibited.

There's a whole shitload of things (that's what you call a group of illegal stuff) you cannot mail.

http://about.usps.com/publications/pub1 ... -items.htm

They're probably not much use to anyone after pruning, but maybe pickled in alcohol they wouldn't attract too many flies to the baggage?

Before the flight maybe fish them out from submerged in alcohol and stick 'em in a zip-lock in the checked baggage. You can always re-dunk them on arrival?

"Anything to declare?" Make up your own suitable reply!

There's always USPO. This is probably one more reason why they don't go routinely opening packages!

ANd I'm going to relate a tale about trying to ship some stuff.

In my career as chemical engineer, I once started calling to see if my technician (a responsible fellow) could travel on an airplane with about 500 grams of powdered coal agglomerated with heavy oil in 5 gallons of water. Agglomerates in water are an ugly, oily mess. Stains, slips, behaves non-newtonian and quite impossible to carry on a plane.

You have to declare any shipment or any package that goes on a plane or in the mail.

Don't forget that the Post Office X-RAYS packages nowadays. A jar will show up and the PO will open the package.

They won't like it not being declared.

LEt me tell you - the day I tried to do this was the most frustrating day of my life. They wanted MSDS. They wanter indemnified. They wanted insurance. They wanted a guarantee that nothing bad was going to happen. Considering the agglomerates permanently stained everything they touched. I couldn't say they were harmless. I had no MSDS because this was "our" own mixture and never subjected to testing (like burn baby burn testing).

Worse, the next morning, my boss giggled, patted me on the head and told me to get my technician a government car and have him drive to the other place.

Unless you get a courier to drive your separated testicles across the country -- they ain't flying, shipping, mailing, trucking, railroading or much else.

Save yourself from a very frustrating experience.

I'm not relating this story to depress you but you save you from more hassles that you ever need…

Worse than Riverwind's move to Hawaii.

daifu-orchid (imported) wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2014 6:14 pm They're probably not much use to anyone after pruning, but maybe pickled in alcohol they wouldn't attract too many flies to the baggage?

Before the flight maybe fish them out from submerged in alcohol and stick 'em in a zip-lock in the checked baggage. You can always re-dunk them on arrival?

"Anything to declare?" Make up your own suitable reply!

There's always USPO. This is probably one more reason why they don't go routinely opening packages!

Eh, I'd rather not smuggle them. There are heavy fines and jail time for that kind of thing if caught so I would prefer to find a way to transport them legally.

The USPO is super strict about what they deliver so I highly doubt they will be of any help. Fedex and UPS will allow more things to be shipped but there are still lots of regulations and its a headache to navigate them. I figured since they would be pickled specimens then there has to be a clearly defined way of transporting them since pickled specimens are important for medical and scientific fields but the best I can find are classes that train people on the regulations which is a sign that this won't be an easy endeavour to figure out.

Lasander (imported) wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2014 3:27 pm So I have an appointment with the doctor in March. I am very excited but I do have a question. Does he allow you to keep the testicles and if so is there any legal way to get them on a plane or mail them back home? The easiest preservation methods I've found require ethyl alcohol which have many restrictions both on a plane and by mail.

Just package them in a plastic container, and bag it in a plastic bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, and box it. Make sure it passes the rattle test. Ship UPS or FEDX, as biology Preserved Specimens.

Notice no lies here.

_g

I know someone that shipped their from coast to coast FedEx without declaring anything. No problems. This is one of the unspoken issues of "National Security" here in the US. They can't check EVERYTHING. Frankly, I'm surprised we have not had a national "incident" involving FedEx, UPS, or the USPS since 9/11.

I would avoid the USPS. If you're going to possibly end up with problems (small chance) then it would be better to have to deal with a private company than the government.

--LT