Are packages from Japan safe?

I got a set of headphones from Tokyo recently, is it safe? Did the mail services start scanning for radiation after the plants in japan started going bad? am i being a worry bug for no reason...its just that putting something with possible radioactivity in my ear worries me lol

I wouldn't be extremly concerned about it, you might want to find out if it is radioactive though just to be safe but I'm sure if it is radiactive it's at a safe level.

Was shipped out on march 15th, well after everything went bad over there.

Wow, I hate the media more and more every day. Your package is fine, even if there was any radiation in it it would be so little you probably absorb more harmful radiation from the sun in one day.

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

Wow, I hate the media more and more every day. Your package is fine, even if there was any radiation in it it would be so little you probably absorb more harmful radiation from the sun in one day.

carrot-cake

Yeah seriously. :|

Yeah, because they don't scan for radiation when they look at packages. :roll:

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

metroidfood

If you've already handled to package it's too late. Have fun with the hair loss and vomiting.

Yeah, because they don't scan for radiation when they look at packages. :roll:

airshocker

Nope. I'm sure they let anything radioactive straight through :|

uh everything in your home near enough emits Radiation in some way the difference is it isn't enough to be a serious health risk your package should be fine im sure if had been in Japan at the time of the crisis it would have been scanned not that a little Radiation on a package could really hurt you as the levels have to be high just don't eat it :P.

If you've already handled to package it's too late. Have fun with the hair loss and vomiting.

DucksBrains

you forgot swollen Lymph Nodes and Diarrhea ;)

This is exactly the sort of paranoia that I keep saying the media propagates through their irresponsible yellow journalism. Yes, your package is safe, unless it was made from material located in one of the reactors, and unless you eat it. Nothing from Japan is going to kill you. Don't worry.GabuEx

Not even...

:question:

[QUOTE="GabuEx"]This is exactly the sort of paranoia that I keep saying the media propagates through their irresponsible yellow journalism. Yes, your package is safe, unless it was made from material located in one of the reactors, and unless you eat it. Nothing from Japan is going to kill you. Don't worry.Dark__Link

Not even...

:question:

Everyone knows Japanese skyscrapers taste better.

my sinus's cleared up last night for the first time in years, im doomed i guess

Rent a Geiger counter. JustPlainLucas

They are fine other than a light dusting of kryptonite. No, packages are not being scanned for radiation :roll:xaos

Not because of the incidents, but all packages go through screeners. There's a reason you can't mail a nuke into most civilized countries.

[QUOTE="xaos"]They are fine other than a light dusting of kryptonite. No, packages are not being scanned for radiation :roll:airshocker

Not because of the incidents, but all packages go through screeners. There's a reason you can't mail a nuke into most civilized countries.

No because when you open it up, an Earthquake might happen to you.Hemmaroids

[QUOTE="JustPlainLucas"][QUOTE="Hemmaroids"]No because when you open it up, an Earthquake might happen to you.Hemmaroids

Expect to grow another arm soon. Seriously though, why don't people know how radiation works? Part of the blame definitively falls on the media for causing this hysteria. Anyway, take physics.

As soon as I seen the topic title I laughed.

exposing something to radiation does not make that item in itself become radioactive. just as if you get an x-ray you do not be come radioactive. irradiationg food is a fairly common practice of exposing food to doses of radiation to kill bacteria and viruses without damaging the fruit its self. however it does not make the food radioactive.

as gabu said unless its made from stuff in the ractor its fine. this is just fear mostly propogated by uninformed media.

when they ship? shipping over seas can = more then two weeks and i think most of that time is spent in customs getting scanned and check by sniffer dogs... but i could be wrong. k2theswiss

"sniffer dogs"

:lol::lol::lol:

All packages? Really? My understanding is that only a fairly small portion of packages get a security check, though I can't find any sources to back that up. Just something that I seem to recall having read, though that was in relation to bulk cargo containers sent on ships.xaos

I think it is all? Maybe they focus on packages from other countries? Who knows. There are definitely radiation screenings for some, if not all, packages.

C'mon guys,this is supposed to be a serious topic!:x

C'mon guys,this is supposed to be a serious topic!:x

Michael0134567

[QUOTE="Michael0134567"]

C'mon guys,this is supposed to be a serious topic!:x

Deihjan

[QUOTE="Michael0134567"]

C'mon guys,this is supposed to be a serious topic!:x

Deihjan

[QUOTE="Deihjan"][QUOTE="Michael0134567"]

C'mon guys,this is supposed to be a serious topic!:x

xaos

[QUOTE="Deihjan"][QUOTE="Michael0134567"]

C'mon guys,this is supposed to be a serious topic!:x

xaos