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- <title>
- Dec. 17, 1990: Deadly Deliveries?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 17, 1990 The Sleep Gap
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 25
- Deadly Deliveries?
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- <body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by David E. Thigpen
- </p>
- <p> Are next-day-delivery services vulnerable to terrorist
- attack? A former courier for Federal Express thinks so and
- claims that he was dismissed when he tried to warn the company.
- Max Cornelssen, 49, notes that when shippers use commercial
- flights, packages receive insufficient inspection before being
- dispatched. He fears that hidden explosive devices could wreak
- destruction on the U.S. commercial fleet. When Cornelssen
- submitted a plan for package inspections, he was put on
- suspension and later fired. FedEx says the dismissal was for
- unrelated violations of policy. The company's security chief
- points out that only about 1,300 of the 1.3 million packages
- shipped daily fly commercially, adding that the company is
- "confident" that procedures ferret out suspicious parcels.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
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