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If you are a passenger or crewmember you are allowed exceptions for certain hazardous articles such as small toiletries, aerosols, etc for personal or medicinal use. Those exceptions are found in 49 CFR 175.10
Those exceptions do not exist, for example, by ground transport so if you were sending your bags by a ground courier (if you had time on your hands) it probably wouldn't work.
Using FedEx by Air (or another certificated airline) you might get away with it because of the last paragraph of 49 CFR 175.10 which says:
(b) The exceptions provided in paragraph (a) of this section also apply to aircraft operators when transporting passenger or crewmember baggage that has been separated from the passenger or crewmember, including transfer to another carrier for transport to its final destination.
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This is/was intended to cover lost or misrouted luggage; I seriously doubt the FAA will allow luggage to contain any kind of hazmat -- even toiletries -- if there's no passenger going with it. Just my opinion.
Jim
Jim is correct. This was/is intented for airlines to move 'lost' bags. If you tender your luggage with a cargo carrier it's treated as cargo. It's up to the shipper to remove all hazardous materials. If the shipper fails to do so, you can rest assured that FedEx will notify FAA Security if toiletries like aerosols, perfume, colognes, are found in your luggage. Gawd forbid you pack a gun or lighter!
Keep in mind that FedEx & the rest don't have time to open your bags to inspect them, we usually find problems due to spills, odors, smoke, etc. If you read the T&C, you give the carrier the right to open your luggage once it's offered. When a problem has been identified, the package/luggage is opened. It matters none that you have locked it and we don't carry TSA keys (are you following me here)?
Fines can be steep, however most cases are closed out with a warning letter from the FAA, it depends on where in the country the infraction is found...it's not fair, it just is.
Like most things involving travel, a little forethought & planning will save you alot of time & frustration.
Mike