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Australia Post bans lithium batteries

Postby gstark on Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:51 pm

For those who sell stuff.

And for those who buy stuff.

And for those who ship stuff.

Oz Post will no longer ship by air packages containing lithium batteries.
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Re: Australia Post bans lithium batteries

Postby sirhc55 on Fri Jul 31, 2009 2:51 pm

That’s about right! Blow up trucks, blow up ships, blow up cars, in fact blow up anything EXCEPT planes. Makes total sense to me :)
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Re: Australia Post bans lithium batteries

Postby Glen on Fri Jul 31, 2009 2:53 pm

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Re: Australia Post bans lithium batteries

Postby aim54x on Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:04 pm

how does that effect stuff that is already on its way? I have my D60 on the way via USPS (which will be AUST POST delivery)
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Re: Australia Post bans lithium batteries

Postby ATJ on Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:07 pm

aim54x wrote:how does that effect stuff that is already on its way? I have my D60 on the way via USPS (which will be AUST POST delivery)

It shouldn't. There's no way they would know there's an Li-ion battery inside.
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Re: Australia Post bans lithium batteries

Postby Mr Darcy on Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:59 pm

ATJ wrote:
aim54x wrote:how does that effect stuff that is already on its way? I have my D60 on the way via USPS (which will be AUST POST delivery)

It shouldn't. There's no way they would know there's an Li-ion battery inside.

Don't be too sure: From the article above...
Air carriers scan mail for dangerous goods, and any packages containing lithium batteries will be rejected.

It seems AP is simply responding to what the carriers are doing.

But Cameron, it will probably come into the country in Sydney. So AP would only be using surface transport anyway. Of course if my guess is right, it may be SHIPped from Point of Origin.
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Re: Australia Post bans lithium batteries

Postby Killakoala on Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:19 pm

Ridiculous knee-jerk reaction. It's only SONY manufactured batteries that should be banned.
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Re: Australia Post bans lithium batteries

Postby sirhc55 on Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:49 pm

After watching Generation Kill I would hazzard a guess and say that the Marine Corp have bought all of the Sony batteries :up:
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Re: Australia Post bans lithium batteries

Postby Matt. K on Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:25 pm

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How did you like Generation Kill? I found it interesting that it was directed by a woman. Her eye for detail was very acute.
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Re: Australia Post bans lithium batteries

Postby sirhc55 on Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:00 pm

Matt. K wrote:Chris
How did you like Generation Kill? I found it interesting that it was directed by a woman. Her eye for detail was very acute.


I have always believed that women give more attention to detail. A beautiful home is normally created by a women unless, of course, you are of the hand bending male genre.

I would place Generation Kill in the same category as Band of Brothers and raise my hat to HBO :)
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