A couple of weeks ago I paid Amazon ~$20 on top of purchase price to ship me a pair of new earbuds. They were defective. Turns out I can’t ship them back because international parcels can’t contain more than 2 batteries. The postal worker also mentioned a cost over $100! 🤬
Miraz Jordan @JeremyWxBaker Looks like I've learned a very expensive ($120) lesson…
Eric Eggert Are the batteries over 20Wh? That sounds like a lot. The AirPod Pro batteries have 0.15Wh each, plus the case. I didn’t find a measurement about that, but I doubt it is more than 20Wh. At least might be good to check.
Tor Einar Samdahl My guess is that you are within the limit with regard to the number of single cell batteries. One for each bud and probably a slightly larger one for the case. And way under the limit of watt-hours.
Miraz Jordan Eric Eggert Fingers crossed! I mean it did get shipped internationally, so a return shipment should be somehow possible, right?
Miraz Jordan @yatil That's my reasoning too… Plus Aotearoa New Zealand is full of earbuds etc. We definitely didn't make them here!
Tor Einar Samdahl They might interpret it very strict. But if my reading of the rules you should be able to send two MacBook Pro 16 via the mail since they have a battery within the 100W limit. It would be somewhat ludicrous to not be able to send some earbuds with a charging case under the same rules.
Miraz Jordan @teisam At the two post offices I visited they freaked out at the notion there were Lithium-ion batteries in the package. I said it was just earbuds but they were unmoved… The rules for sending internationally are different from those within country.
Yorrike Send them via a courier company if worst comes to worst. DHL brings all the Apple products into NZ, I clouding laptops, so they may have a better handle on things.
Miraz Jordan @yorrike Thanks. I'll look into DHL. The PO had suggested NZCouriers when I asked who could carry them, but the prospects looked bad there too.