FYI.... ----Original Message Follows---- From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DNA] Sending test kits to the UK.(and back again) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:44:41 EDT Ann: I've had kits (FTDNA) go to Australia and New Zealand. My Australian participant didn't have any problems sending it back but the NZ guy did. On the advise of the Australian, I had the NZ guy declare the kit as "genealogical swab" instead of "biological sample" and it went through with no problems. So it is very important to fill in the Declaration of Contents correctly because the postal services are a little jumpy when they see biological anything. Bill Davenport >[email protected] -------------- In a message dated 9/12/2004 7:53:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: My recollection is that someone in Australia had an extraordinary amount of trouble getting the post office to accept his package when he was ready to mail his sample back to FTDNA and had to declare the contents. Does anyone remember if there was some special phrase that was recommended? Ann Turner - GENEALOGY-DNA List Administrator