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Old Jun 4, 2009 | 6:50 pm
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Originally Posted by sobore
Wow, am I naive. I never realized that many different type of things were being transported, least of all human remains!
Last winter, while waiting to pay freight on two cars that were shipped for the PR AutoShow, there were 4 identically sized boxes. In each one, human remains being shipping back to the mainland.

The guy dropping off the remains was there and I asked him how common it was.. his reply, that 4 in a day is a slow day for that particular carrier.
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