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In order to make it easy to identify those products that can be ordered "smart", and shipped at more attractive shipping rates, we have created our own SPI symbol system to highlight such items: OK-SPI There are exceptions to every rule, and the OK-SPI shipping approach is no exception: Some countries can not accept OK-SPI shipments, and therefore, to those destinations, air freight is the only option. Please contact us for information regarding a shipment to your country. We now consider two different cases: 1. - For domestic USA shipments containing no dangerous goods items except those designated by: OK-SPI For U.S. domestic shipments only, SPI can ship many items under the provisions of 49 CFR 173.4 and additional items under a special permit granted by the U.S. Department of Transportation, exemption DOT-E 6971. Using either of these methods, small quantities of materials classified as dangerous goods may be shipped, in essence, as if they were not dangerous goods, provided SPI uses its specially devised and approved packaging system. There is a nominal charge for the special packaging materials, such cost is much less than the shipping costs being saved. It is difficult to obtain the DOT-E 6971 permit and SPI Supplies is one of only a small number of companies in the United States which enjoy this privilege. In order to be in compliance with both DOT-E 6971 and 49 CFR 173.4, extensive package design and testing was necessary before a single shipment could be made using this exemption. Still, there are some products that cannot be shipped under these exemptions and have to be shipped as they have always been shipped, and several examples would include the SPI Two-In-One™ Dusters, VacSeal™ in liquid and aerosol form, and some of the components in our embedding resin kits. In a few instances we have denoted products with OK-SPI as applying only to international shipments, not for domestic shipments. For those cases, the cost to ship domestically in the USA is only marginally higher because of the dangerous goods nature of the material. We therefore did not bother to reformulate product sizes smaller than indicated. Special SPI-imposed Dangerous Goods Packaging Charges will apply for all shipments going out under one of the exemptions permitting the lower cost shipping methods. Since all involve a higher level and more stringent packaging system, these charges are passed on to our customers. Note that in general, the charge is levied once for the shipment, which can cover a number of different individual Dangerous Goods and it is not a levy on each dangerous goods. For larger shipments involving a quantity of different dangerous goods, it is possible that more than one special packaging system would be required and in that case, a second Dangerous Goods Packaging Charge could apply. Also, in some cases, we cannot ship two dangerous goods in the same package, because they can react with each other in the event of breakage. By US Department of Transportation regulations such products must be shipped separately. Please note that additional Dangerous Goods Packaging Charge will be applied. 2. - For international shipments containing no dangerous goods items except those designated as: OK-SPI