Shipping item with a Lithium battery to an APO

[CTmomof3]

I just learned that the US Mail will not ship anything that has a lithium battery.  That's most electronics now.  Does anyone have info on how I can get something shipped?  This seems so unfair to our military as UPS doesn't ship to APO's.

[Anti M]

 

http://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52apxc_040.htm

 

 

USPS Packaging Instruction 9D

Lithium and Lithium-ion Cells and Batteries

Primary lithium (non-rechargeable) cells and batteries and secondary lithium-ion (rechargeable) cells and batteries are mailable in limited quantities domestically via air or surface transportation and internationally when properly packed with or properly installed in the equipment they operate. Primary lithium (non-rechargeable) cells and batteries are mailable in limited quantities domestically via surface transportation when the cells or batteries are not packed with or installed in equipment and are in the originally sealed packaging.

 

You CAN ship something electronic with the battery.  Just can't ship batteries in large quantities.  As for "properly packed" there has to be an instruction for that too.

[countrywoods]

No I was planning on sending my son a computer also

[calliecl]

Anti M. Unless I read that link incorrectly it sounds like we can't mail anything with a lithium battery internationally. I wanted to send my son an iPod and he is on a destroyer in the Persian gulf. I can't figure out a way to do it. His recently broke and he is really missing his music:(

[calliecl]

AntiM -- I reread that link. I think the part you are referring to only applies domestically. Unfortunately I need to ship it internationally. I received an email from the ombudsman of my son's ship and I was told I can't ship anything with a lithium battery to the ship. For now, I guess he will have to do without an iPod :(

[Anti M]

I did miss the part about none to FPO addresses, I do apologize.  The original link I followed had that part cut off.  

If they make a port call to Bahrain, maybe he can pick one up then?

[calliecl]

Good suggestion. I will tell him to check it out when in port.

[sailorwifenmom]

We're stationed overseas, and, unfortunately, you can't get anything like that shipped to an APO or an FPO address.  You can't even order it from, say, the Exchange, and have it shipped to you that way.  :-( 

I can tell you that there are a lot of upset people here where we are, because we have a pretty small base with a pretty small exchange, and we're in rural, Northern Japan, so, (ironically, given Japan's reputation for technology), it's hard to get these things off base.  Now, we can't  mail order it, either.. :-(

[Anti M]

And road trips to Yokosuka (or Akihabara)  aren't simple!

[sailorwifenmom]

I know, right?  They just had a Sailor get here who flew in commercial, and going from the one airport to the other in Tokyo missed his flight up here.  Rather than getting another flight or taking the train (or any number of other things...) he took a TAXI from Tokyo to Misawa... It cost him something like almost 2 GRAND, and is like a 12 hr trip... 

My husband wants a kindle fire - he wanted it for Father's Day, but they can't ship it and the exchange here doesn't sell them, so he's waiting to get it as a belated anniversary gift.  (Our anniversary is in early July and we transfer Stateside in mid July :-)  )