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    Is it illegal....

    to send someone a dog (or cat) turd in the post?
    Blood in your poo

    #2
    Originally posted by Sausage Surprise View Post
    to send someone a dog (or cat) turd in the post?
    Biohazard?

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      #3
      Originally posted by Sausage Surprise View Post
      to send someone a dog (or cat) turd in the post?
      Dunno, but I believe royal mail are contractually obliged to deliver it...
      B00med!

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        #4
        HMRC often send me tulipe in the post.
        Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?

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          #5
          More importantly, why do you ask?!

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            #6
            Originally posted by Sausage Surprise View Post
            to send someone a dog (or cat) turd in the post?
            No, but it has to be sent turd class.


            igmc.
            "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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              #7
              Originally posted by DaveB View Post
              No, but it has to be sent turd class.


              igmc.
              FFS that's so bad its good. Coffee everywhere, damn your guts
              Hard Brexit now!
              #prayfornodeal

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                #8
                Originally posted by Sausage Surprise View Post
                to send someone a dog (or cat) turd in the post?
                Yep - you aren't allow to send "filth"

                http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4623754.stm
                "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                  #9
                  As a serious answer S85 of the Postal Services Act 2000 details the prohibition on sending certain articles by post. Specifically S85 (1) states :

                  A person commits an offence if he sends by post a postal packet which encloses any creature, article or thing of any kind which is likely to injure other postal packets in course of their transmission by post or any person engaged in the business of a postal operator.

                  So on strict interpretation you would probably be ok as long as it was security wrapped and sealed, ie not likely "to injure other postal packets in course of their transmission by post or any person engaged in the business of a postal operator." If it was poorly wrapped then you could be deemed to be putting otgher items of post or postal operators at risk.
                  "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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                    #10
                    I'm quite certain you can in principle - after all you must be able to send samples off for analysis. Why you'd want to is another matter...

                    [quick google]
                    poo test

                    What a tulipe job that must be.

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