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Sending laptops through an post?

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  • #32
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,976 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    An Post has a relationship with DHL. You cannot send something by DHL which has batteries in it. You cannot put anything on an aircraft with batteries in it.

    http://www.anpost.ie/AnPost/MainContent/Personal+Customers/Sending+Mail/Speed/International+Courier+Service/
    I bought a couple of lithium ion batteries on eBay last week, and my friendly An Post postman delivered them to me yesterday. I'm sure he didn't know what they were, or else he would have had them destroyed.


  • #33
    bipedalhumanoid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 297 ✭✭bipedalhumanoid


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    I bought a couple of lithium ion batteries on eBay last week, and my friendly An Post postman delivered them to me yesterday. I'm sure he didn't know what they were, or else he would have had them destroyed.

    Why wouldn't they? It's already in Ireland when An Post receive it. They don't have a problem with delivering batteries locally, they just won't deliver them overseas.

    Also, the contents of your package would be clearly written on the customs declaration. All An Post would need to do to know what is in it is read the declaration sticker.


  • #34
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Zombies go bump in the night. Or in the middle of the day as the case may be.


  • #35
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    I would put the laptop in a cardboard box and write in marker on the box - "this is not a laptop computer containing a lithium battery"

    You can also put - "do not open to check!


  • #36
    Vic_08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭Vic_08


    bipedalhumanoid wrote: »
    That's complete BS. An Post is the only postal service in the developed world that will not handle batteries and liquids. You can even drive over the border to Newry and send batteries and liquids through Royal Mail. You can go to Amazon and have mobile phone batteries sent from the USA, UK or Germany through the standard mail systems in those countries. You can order bottles of wine from New Zealand and have them sent here too.

    An Post's explanation for this doesn't add up.

    A cargo plane crashed in Dubai due to a fire in a consignment of lithium batteries.

    The major cargo handlers have upgraded their containers to contain such a fire but restrictions still apply to commercial cargo shipped on passenger flights.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6


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  • #37
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    bipedalhumanoid wrote: »
    That's complete BS. An Post is the only postal service in the developed world that will not handle batteries and liquids. You can even drive over the border to Newry and send batteries and liquids through Royal Mail. You can go to Amazon and have mobile phone batteries sent from the USA, UK or Germany through the standard mail systems in those countries. You can order bottles of wine from New Zealand and have them sent here too.

    An Post's explanation for this doesn't add up.

    A couple of years back I had bought a laptop battery and I needed to return it to UK seller. AnPost refused it so I brought it with me as I was going there (by bus) anyway. I brought it to the PO there and asked, assistant 'had to go and check', then accepted it, but apparently if I'd been a few days later they wouldn't have taken it even for an inland delivery.


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