Dr Lee and fellow researcher Andres Baravalle have come across AK-47s sold in parts delivered by separate couriers for reassembly by the consumer, as well as what Baravalle describes as "special services" – instructions, for example, on how to evade the police while committing particular crimes.
KGB documents never seen in the West were smuggled into the West by three separate Mailer-Schiller couriers.
Similar cases due to begin from later this year will see four cycle couriers taking separate tribunal cases against Excel, City Sprint, Addison Lee and eCourier, arguing that they are not truly self-employed, as the companies currently describe them.
A separate case has been heard against courier firm CitySprint, although no ruling has yet been made, and recently workers for Deliveroo requested union recognition.
The day of the luteal blood collection, the woman shipped both the follicular and luteal blood samples to our laboratory with an ice-pack, via overnight courier, where the samples were processed, separated into plasma, red blood cell, and white blood cell components, and aliquoted into labeled cryotubes.
Cord blood was collected by needle puncture from the umbilical cord immediately after birth (collected by midwives) and transported to the laboratory by courier, where cells, plasma, and serum were separated and stored.
The venous blood samples were sent by overnight courier to the immune analysis laboratory where lymphocytes were separated on Lymphoprep (Flow Laboratories, Irvine, Scotland) and stored at −180°C.
Briefly, these women arranged to have their blood drawn and shipped with an ice pack via overnight courier to our laboratory, where it was processed and separated into plasma, red blood cell and white blood cell components.
On a separate trip, he said, "That same baby was crying so much that the courier, Shanae Reed, left her alone in the hotel room and went out for a beer".
The tubes were kept at 4°C until they were sent by express courier to the coordinating center (Catalan Institute of Oncology) in Barcelona, where saliva was separated in 3-ml andquots and frozen at −20°C for storage.
