Can you ask your contractor to add a special label to it? I don't mean like: "Government Data - Fragile". But maybe they can manage that for you. A friend of mine could ship stuff with a military airplane, because his dad worked for the us army.
No. I appreciate the thought, but there are a few things wrong with these ideas.
First, I'm ending my (albeit short) career as a defense contractor before I move to New Zealand. While I still have strong professional relationships with my former colleagues, it would be out of line for me to ask them for help here.
Second, even if I did ask, they can't really help. Labeling or mislabeling drives, etc, just draws attention as using any kind of official labeling would make it look like I'm carrying government-owned material. I'm not, and I have no intention of doing so. Further, I'm pretty sure use of such official labels would be very illegal. If I was caught I'd be sent home where I'd expect to face some nasty fines and/or jail time.
Finally, I'm not sure what your friend's dad does for the Army, but unless his dad is an officer or enlisted service member (and maybe even if he is), chances are there's some misappropriation going on there. Either way, I'm not the kind of DoD contractor who can just call in a "hey, just stick this in a military cargo shipment" kind of favor. If I was, I'd either be much more relaxed, or much more nervous about quitting my job to move to a foreign country...
hmm, sorry. I thought that shipping the package using the regular air-mail service of the government would be an option.
You can still save the data on a VPS and encrypt it, then download & decrypt it, when you're back at your new country. Would that be a viable option?
I understand that you're more concerned about your equipment, but this could at least get you going until you get your stuff back; I mean in the worst case scenario.
