Just heard from a friend who has finished out his consultancy in Yemen. He’s trying to ship some household goods back to the U.S. Nuttin’ doing. Since October 2010, no one is able to send any unaccompanied air cargo and of course airlines won’t take lots of accompanied air cargo even if you’re willing to pay. Someone made the false report that air cargo shipments from Yemen to the U.S. have resumed, but they haven’t. See http://www.yementimes.com/defaultdet.aspx?SUB_ID=35634.
So our friend is trying to ship some items ahead to his next destination, Jordan, which is now open for shipments from Yemen. He prepared his first test package including legal software and music CDs. All of the CDs were removed from the package. No reason given but it seems that the shipping companies think that CDs can explode. Well, according to the Mythbusters at the Discovery Channel, it turns out that they can explode--if you spin them fast enough! http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm; http://gadgetopia.com/post/2086. Hummmmmm......
So our friend is trying to ship some items ahead to his next destination, Jordan, which is now open for shipments from Yemen. He prepared his first test package including legal software and music CDs. All of the CDs were removed from the package. No reason given but it seems that the shipping companies think that CDs can explode. Well, according to the Mythbusters at the Discovery Channel, it turns out that they can explode--if you spin them fast enough! http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm; http://gadgetopia.com/post/2086. Hummmmmm......
