I’m going to trust that anyone commenting here actually has read the linked documents
— or at least opened them and looked at each page, and isn’t just pounding keys.
At the very least, I’ll trust you have looked at the pictures.
Can I trust you that far? If so, no need to read further from me, because you know what you’re doing, and I”ve said all I’m going to on this topic here.
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Still reading?
They didn’t make those pictures up to impinge on your freedom.
They show the pictures to explain the reasons for the detailed distinctions made — country by country — about packaging for shipment.
They’re not trying to take your tobacco products away. The regulations address a known risk of losing an aircraft full of people. Not the only risk. Can’t get them all.
So you got a package.
Did the package travely by air mail? If so, was it carried on passenger aircraft? or carried by cargo aircraft? or carried by ground transportation?
That’s what the labels affect — how the package travels.
The regulations differ, and the effective dates of the regulation differ, and the uses of the labels differ.
Does the package contain lithium-ion, or lithium? You’re flashlight people — you know that the chemistry, and the risk, and the regulations, differ.
Did you send the package?
The responsibility will lie with the shipper — once the regulations are in effect at the point of origin.
Once the regulations come into effect, your odds of getting a package will change if the shipper’s proven untrustworthy.
Remember how for a few months, lots of battery shipments got held up? We don’t always hear about accidents, but something changed in China not long ago.
They don’t publicize problems there readily.
You realize the effective dates above haven’t all even happened yet, right?
Folks, it’s easy to go all high-principle-ultimate-individual-freedom when you’re not responsible for other people’s lives and property.
But is keyboard campaigning against regulations written to address a real, known problem that’s caused real fires on real aircraft the best use of this particular public forum?
You know how people feel when an aircraft goes down? And you know air mail — if not labeled for ground transportation or cargo air travel — often goes on passenger aircraft.
Just sayin’ —- sometimes, people get the attention they deserve.
Sometimes they call attention down on other folks who don’t deserve or need that attention.
I’m sure there’s an appropriate place to go on about this at length.
This ain’t it.
We know the problem — it affects us too: fake batteries, unsafely made, shipped by the same liars who made them or by people who sold them not caring they’re fake.
There are no libertarians on airplanes these days.
Done with the topic, myself. Consider your words.
