topic Re: shipping lithium batteries in Selling

shipping lithium batteries

multiksydney — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:22:43 GMT

Hi All,

I wanted to sell and ship Power banks with lithium batteries within Australia. But discovered that all products contained lithium batteris - not only power banks, but also smartphones, iPhones, tablets, laptops, all of them are prohibited for airmail by Australia Post and some of courier companies.

At the same time I see that there are a lot of listings with such kind of goods.

Could you please advise me what is a way to deliver power banks to customers?

Thanks a lot!

Re: shipping lithium batteries

davewil1964 — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:36:37 GMT

By road. With road only stickers prominantly displayed.

In most cases this will not make any difference to standard delivery times, as little standard mail, even from one end of the continent to the other, goes by air.

Re: shipping lithium batteries

lyndal1838 — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:23:48 GMT

You may also need to hold a Dangerous Goods Licence if you are going to be shipping them regularly.

Sneck with Australia Post.

Re: shipping lithium batteries

phorum_junkie* — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:34:23 GMT

Within Australia they are fine sent regular parcel (not prepaid satchels or click & send) with a road only sticker on them.

Overseas you will have to find a specialist courier and it could prove very expensive. Is it possible to sell them without the batteries?

Others list them because they may be drop shipping from outside Aus, they may nit knw they are not allowed to send them overseas and have got away with it so far or many other reasons but the fact is you are not allowed to send them without soecial packaging provided by a few couriers.

Re: shipping lithium batteries

multiksydney — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:47:17 GMT

Thank you all for your replies.

Re: shipping lithium batteries

ausiness — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:23:37 GMT

Outdated info here.

Now you can see clearly on the Australia Post, says;

Lithium ion (rechargeable) - 20 watt-hour per cell or 100 watt-hour per battery

Yes, you can calculate or see your product doc to check those info then you will know what you can send or not.

Re: shipping lithium batteries

padi*0409 — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:33:03 GMT

@ausiness wrote:

Outdated info here.
.

Well that's not surprising when you drag up a thread that's OVER 5 YEARS OLD.............................

Re: shipping lithium batteries

lyndal1838 — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:27:04 GMT

*sigh* Another example of why these old threads need to be locked.