Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: rushed
  • Music: Glee, "One."

Mailing perfume domestically.

Basically what it says on the tin.

I am about to embark on a huge and terrifying purge of my belongings, in part because I need to have less stuff (because reasons), in part because I need to have more money (because related reasons). One of the things I have a startling supply of is BPAL (Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab) perfume.

Does anyone know, from "I have done it and here's how" experience, how to mail perfume/essential oil within the US? I've found both "it's a hazardous material and you can't" and "it's possible, just hard." Well, I need to know how.

Help?
Tags: cleaning my house, shameless plea
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tylik

January 25 2016, 02:31:38 UTC 1 year ago

I probably shouldn't be so bemused by this, but having received both nitric acid and metallic sodium through the mail (the first, at least, through a reputable chemical supplier)... really?

(I've also had computer held up at customs, and wondered whether this was over concerns over the lithium ion batteries. Which, y'know, would be valid concerns, but since you are generally allowed to fly with devices with batteries enough to make some pretty decent explosions...)

cantseemee

January 27 2016, 00:03:11 UTC 1 year ago

I used to order chemicals for NASA. It's amazing what you can get in the mail.

I have no actual input to the original post, but felt the need to share this.

tylik

January 27 2016, 19:17:13 UTC 1 year ago

Yeah, I was keeping it down to stuff I've order for home, since I do a lot of ordering for the lab. (Though generally I handle most of the weird stuff ordering for the lab. Other people can totally navigate the Fisher Scientific Catalog. High power laser diodes, kelp crabs, zipline trolleys, I'm your gal. Though to be fair, there was a substantial crowdsourcing component to the zipline trolley.)

My favorite home incident involved my then-roommate (and we had an apartment at the time) ordering nitric acid and getting a call from the front desk that his package - his package that was liberally wrapped in all kinds of paper products - seemed to be leaking. (Nitric acid. Paper. Tee hee.*) He asked them to place the package in the back lot and request that no one come near it, and manage to sprint up to the building in about five minutes.

...it turned out that someone else's shampoo order had been leaking on the package.

* Okay, maybe I find things like that a little too funny. And maybe I shouldn't have been taunting my nephew (my beloved nephew whom I dote upon okay, mostly whom I tease and harass and present lots of educational opportunities to, but that's generally what I mean by doting, right? Ask any of my students...) about nitrogen triiodide, but then apparently he's now making it as a term project with the approval and supervision of his chemistry instructor, so go alternative highschool!

cantseemee

January 27 2016, 19:38:38 UTC 1 year ago

Hahah! THAT IS AWESOME.

I had to order hardware once that was going to go on one of the Mars Rovers. And the lady who I was ordering it for asked me if it was going to leave the country. And I giggle to myself and I say "Well, technically" She asked me where it was going, I'm sure it was either a national security issue or a customs issue, and I responded "we're sending it to Mars"

She couldn't figure out if I was joking with her or not. Eventually I just told her it was staying inside the USA.

PS - it totally went to Mars.