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Since credit cards go through the mail, I assume you can send SDs in an envelope for a few cents, right? Fast and cheap. Although this anecdote says USPS radiat
by rjeli 6y ago
Since credit cards go through the mail, I assume you can send SDs in an envelope for a few cents, right? Fast and cheap. Although this anecdote says USPS radiation scanning might wipe it, anyone have experience? https://www.thewanderinglensman.com/2014/01/warning-dont-mail-your-memory-cards.html?m=1 https://www.thewanderinglensman.com/2014/01/warning-dont-mai...
- boring_twenties 6y ago> USPS radiation scanning might wipe it I'm skeptical of this, since when I order microSD cards online they arrive via USPS and have a perfectly valid partition table and FAT filesystem on them.
- godelski 6y agoI've sent flash media through mail without problems. As well as hard drives with disks. Never had an issue.
- chillfox 6y agoI would assume that mail scanning is similar to the x-ray scanner at the airport, and any SD card or hard drive that cant handle that is useless. Could you imagine having your laptop and camera wiped every time you jumped on a plane.
- kps 6y agoTSA opened my checked luggage to manually inspect the box of 9-track tapes.
- Brian-Puccio 6y agoFilm is mailed all of the time without issue. Film would be ruined by the luggage scanning (i.e. higher power) machines though most film is usually OK with the lower power carry-on scanning machines.