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Posting a phone (with battery) to the US?

  • 04-07-2013 12:00pm
    #1
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,847 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm just back from An Post where I went to send off a phone to the US and was refused because it has a battery in it :confused:

    I only sold the phone for about €40 so I'm not going to spend €50 with a courier to ship it there. He said that if they were to send it, it would be scanned on arrival and binned.

    It would have cost €9.90 with an post and he said DHL would charge €50 for the same. Any suggestions?


Comments

  • #2
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,917 ✭✭✭Wossack


    post it anyway? far fetched imo, but I didnt go to An Post college


  • #3
    General General
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    cormie wrote: »
    I'm just back from An Post where I went to send off a phone to the US and was refused because it has a battery in it :confused:

    I only sold the phone for about €40 so I'm not going to spend €50 with a courier to ship it there. He said that if they were to send it, it would be scanned on arrival and binned.

    It would have cost €9.90 with an post and he said DHL would charge €50 for the same. Any suggestions?

    Post phone separately.

    Get quotes for DHL of battery & check with buyer about working something out.

    It's the phone that's the main 'buy', I'm imagining.


  • #4
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    Nothing to do with An Post. US law prevents it.


  • #5
    tmc86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭tmc86


    That's bizarre. Could you send through work/a business?

    Or send the phone & battery separately? Maybe the US postal service don't allow it because they think it could be activated as a bomb?!


  • #6
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,660 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    A deals a deal.


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  • #7
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    offer him a partial refund in exchange for you posting it without the battery, take a bit of a hit at your end, and put it down to experience.


  • #8
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    Sell it to an Irish person.

    Or shove it up your arse and get a flight over.


  • #9
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Stick it in a bottle and send it across the ocean.


  • #10
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭dmc17


    AgileMyth wrote: »
    Sell it to an Irish person.

    Or shove it up your arse and get a flight over.

    I wouldn't recommend this option. The flight would cost more than the courier!


  • #11
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Wossack wrote: »
    post it anyway? far fetched imo, but I didnt go to An Post college

    An Post have had this policy for some time but didn't enforce it. According to a thread on Auctions and Online buying they have started to enforce it.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056551163


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  • #12
    Radiosonde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Radiosonde


    dmc17 wrote: »
    I wouldn't recommend this option. The flight would cost more than the courier!

    Then he could shove it up the courier's ass...


  • #13
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Stainless_Steel wrote: »
    Nothing to do with An Post. US law prevents it.

    yep, legal to own a shotgun, but illegal to send a battery in the post.
    Happy 4th of July.


  • #14
    limitedIQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭limitedIQ


    How would they know if it has a battery was in a package ?
    just wrap in a bit of bubble wrap and post it.


  • #15
    Radiosonde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Radiosonde


    limitedIQ wrote: »
    How would they know if it has a battery was in a package ?
    just wrap in a bit of bubble wrap and post it.

    Which they may open.


  • #16
    MiskyBoyy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭MiskyBoyy


    Send the phone without the battery and buy a cheap battery for like a fiver off ebay U.S site and have it shipped directly to your phone buyers address?


  • #17
    General General
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    DaLad wrote: »
    Send the phone without the battery and buy a cheap battery for like a fiver off ebay U.S site and have it shipped directly to your phone buyers address?

    This makes you an international wheeler-dealer putting complex deals together across national borders in order to work around regulations that stifle enterprise..

    Good for the old CV.


  • #18
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,917 ✭✭✭Wossack


    limitedIQ wrote: »
    How would they know if it has a battery was in a package ?
    just wrap in a bit of bubble wrap and post it.

    xrays


  • #19
    General General
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    Wossack wrote: »
    xrays

    He said he was goin' to use bubble wrap... x-rays get confused & give up with a 'bit' of bubble wrap.


  • #20
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    the groutch wrote: »
    yep, legal to own a shotgun, but illegal to send a battery in the post.
    Happy 4th of July.

    So same as Ireland then?
    Many happy returns.


  • #21
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,847 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Thanks folks, does bubble wrap REALLY distort xray scans? Could risk it if so :D

    Otherwise, a new battery is only about $7 on ebay so might see if they are ok with a little discount.


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