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Posting Laptop Battery.

  • 14-03-2014 2:33am
    #1
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭


    How will I return a Laptop Battery to Honk Kong! An Post refuse to ship batteries, my battery is in it's original packaging and uncharged!!


Comments

  • #2
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    You could get a cheap Ryanair flight and carry it personally.


  • #3
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    You might be stuck with it or one of the larger couriers perhaps.


  • #4
    KyussBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    Wrap it and tell An Post "please ship this, this is not a battery"?


  • #5
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    UPS?


  • #6
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,632 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    You need to find two nightclub dancers to smuggle it over in a suitcase for you.


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  • #7
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Cydoniac wrote: »
    UPS?
    yes a battery is an uninterruptible power supply


  • #8
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    I wont be stuck with it, I'll just post it from Newry, Royal Mail allow battery's once they're in original packaging, eh I think.... Anyway just highlighting a point. Ridiculous rule by An Post! Thanks for the help anyway.


  • #9
    Think_then_talk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭Think_then_talk


    Hi the International Civil Aviation Organization classed them as dangerous goods. Yet they let you use laptops on the plane they are still a fire risk.
    UK the same...
    http://www.postoffice.co.uk/prohibited-goods-UK

    Just reading..
    batteries must be packed in strong rigid packaging and must be secured against
    movement within the outer packaging and packed to prevent accidental activation.?

    So how come we can't send them?


  • #10
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    WikiHow wrote: »
    yes a battery is an uninterruptible power supply

    I laughed way too hard at this :o


  • #11
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    ardle1 wrote: »
    How will I return a Laptop Battery to Honk Kong! An Post refuse to ship batteries, my battery is in it's original packaging and uncharged!!
    Was it posted to you?

    I didn't know about that rule with An Post. My laptop battery is getting a bit rubbish now and doesn't hold a charge for very long. If I buy one online will I have to get it special delivery? :confused:


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  • #12
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I've had a phone battery delivered by An Post and rechargeable batteries now that I think of it.
    Must be insurance costs their afraid of presumably.


  • #13
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Stick a watch and a couple of lengths of wire to it and tell them it's a bomb....problem solved.

    Unless they don't ship watches or wire.


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