TonyG
Seasoned Expediter
Ok, Thats enough eggnogg, you are cut off!!!! LoL
Fed Ex missing nuclear rods
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Ok, Thats enough eggnogg, you are cut off!!!! LoL
greg334
Veteran Expediter
This has nothing to do with a perceived danger to those who know what it is - it has to do with the danger that the public perceives as a possible threat to them. The work Nuclear invokes a lot of images that many here who grew up in the cold war learned to fear. Those post cold war people think of dirty bombs and the revised history of Hiroshima with images of skin falling off.
The item, a package within a cardboard box has little to do with it any of it when you come down to brass tacks. As a company who claims to be on the cutting edge of technology and can track any package from boonies of Kazakhstan to streets of Seattle makes a lot of people wonder when something that has Nuclear and Rods in the title of a bunch of news reports, what actually happened. They lost a package that contains something that is feared, mis-understood by many which is sitting on their own dock and it takes them how long to find it?
Turtle pointed out that this is pretty much harmless but it isn't when it comes down to instilling fear. Just the use of it to set off radiation detectors can cause a mild panic and of course the knee-jerk reactionary government will somehow come up with a blame to pin on someone and then try to restrict more.
How many times have they closed down an airport because someone walked the wrong way or ignored a sign? Imagine if someone put some of this stuff in a carry-on and wanted to make a statement what would happen. Think JFK with decontamination teams cleaning everything.
This has nothing to do with FedEx Custom Critical, just proves to me that the company dropped the ball by not using Custom Critical in the first place but rather Freight and other connections. Cheerleaders should take note.
Will there be an improvement?
I doubt that it will be fast coming. Maybe a few should be terminated just to make an appearance that something is done. Maybe they need to look at how they handle this and put to use those idle trucks in Custom Critical?
The item, a package within a cardboard box has little to do with it any of it when you come down to brass tacks. As a company who claims to be on the cutting edge of technology and can track any package from boonies of Kazakhstan to streets of Seattle makes a lot of people wonder when something that has Nuclear and Rods in the title of a bunch of news reports, what actually happened. They lost a package that contains something that is feared, mis-understood by many which is sitting on their own dock and it takes them how long to find it?
Turtle pointed out that this is pretty much harmless but it isn't when it comes down to instilling fear. Just the use of it to set off radiation detectors can cause a mild panic and of course the knee-jerk reactionary government will somehow come up with a blame to pin on someone and then try to restrict more.
How many times have they closed down an airport because someone walked the wrong way or ignored a sign? Imagine if someone put some of this stuff in a carry-on and wanted to make a statement what would happen. Think JFK with decontamination teams cleaning everything.
This has nothing to do with FedEx Custom Critical, just proves to me that the company dropped the ball by not using Custom Critical in the first place but rather Freight and other connections. Cheerleaders should take note.
Will there be an improvement?
I doubt that it will be fast coming. Maybe a few should be terminated just to make an appearance that something is done. Maybe they need to look at how they handle this and put to use those idle trucks in Custom Critical?
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