Fasttech no longer ships batteries to Canada 
I had some NCR18650PF’s paid for, but Fasttech support emailed me saying I can’t ship them via Malaysia post anymore.
Temporary or permanent? My order was shipped within a day. I think they are also rushing to clear all their stocks.
According to their shipping page, temporarily:
Mine was shipped on the 26th, whats the odds they get through
Last time the shipping ban happened, I had ordered a week beforehand and customs returned the shipped batteries back to Fasttech. Fasttech handled it very well, but I still wasted close to a month total waiting for the batteries to ship, return back to shipper after being denied, and then time to process my refund. Keep this in mind if you need batteries urgently (might be better to cancel and buy local).
More is coming out that might make airlines stop carrying them until this gets sorted out.
All you’d need is one dodgy manufacturer cutting corners and some fires in warehouses or trucks to scare the airlines.
We don’t hear reports out of China — either they haven’t had problems like the US has, or they’re not being made public. From ’oogle:
“… One witness said that during the development of the batteries “failures occur in ways that the designer never envisioned.” … asked if they could define failure, but nobody seemed able to because it occurred in so many different ways. One witness volunteered: “You’d better burn some batteries to know what they look like.”
A picture emerged of a technology that was just too appealing to early adopters …. the development of the lithium-ion technology had been driven so hard and so fast that it had outpaced the ability of the FAA regulators to know at what point they could freeze the safety standards they were preparing in order to certify that the 787 was safe to fly.”
and a month ago:
“… Malaysian officials have confirmed that a consignment of lithium-ion batteries was in the cargo hold of Flight MH370. “These are not regarded as dangerous goods,” said the CEO of Malaysian Airlines ….
… Originally, the Malaysians said that the battery consignment weighed 440 pounds. However, the manifest shows a far larger consignment weighing 5,400 pounds in total, alongside a warning that “a flammable hazard exists.” It has now emerged that the batteries were but one part of a consolidated package ….
and
“… the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Security and Hazardous Materials Safety keeps a list of incidents involving these batteries. They include:
The hands of a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight burned when spare lithium-ion batteries for a cell phone melted the zip-top bag in which they were carried, breached the passenger’s carry-on bag and produced smoke and flames.
A package of 18 lithium-ion batteries melted through their plastic wrap and set fire to their outer package at the UPS flight center in Louisville, Kentucky.
A FedEx pilot was taking the jump seat in the cockpit of a flight from Memphis when a lithium-ion battery in a flashlight carried in his backpack caught fire while the airplane was still at the gate.
The FAA cautions that their published list of scores of incidents does not represent all the information collected ….”
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My battery from BG was shipped on the 16th April and still not arrive
How did you manage to order batteries from FT to Norway? When I tried, no shipping method seened to be valid.
Worked 3 weeks ago. Not anymore.
Four NCR18650B from WB shipped on April 17th (Sweden post) arrived yesterday.
Two INR26650 from DX purchased on April 14th and “quickly” shipped on May 06th (Swiss post) still flying over the Atlantic Ocean between Dietzenbach and here, I will open dispute now (deadline).
I was trying to place few batteries orders from FT but was in vain. It shows no carrier to select for batteries. DX does but they don’t have the batteries I wanted!
I ordered some from BG on 10th using MY, dispatch alert on 22th. Still normal for me but I’ll see next week if there any updates.
My tracking is showing nothing now anyone elses the same
I ordered some 16340s from DX yesterday and got confirmation email today that it was being shipped out. Will see how it goes.
I just got an email from DX saying a package they sent me was returned because of batteries.
Here's the deal, Chinese customs is not supposed to let batteries out of the country any more via air mail, but we don't know all of the regulations and the sellers don't want to stop making money, so they are illegally trying to get batteries out of the country and sometimes they get caught. It seems that now Customs are finally begrudgingly trying to do what they said they would do many months ago. Soon, if they do follow the new laws, you will not be able to buy those li-ion batteries any more, at least not loose ones, or inside lights. I am sure some will still get through, until they come up with a better way to check outgoing packages, but basically, they are not supposed to allow the batteries out any more.
So i read this on my tracking from BG,
Departured at 2014/5/26 21:57:32 from Flytexpress Sorting Center location
Does this means my order will pass?
“… the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Security and Hazardous Materials Safety keeps a list of incidents involving these batteries. They include:
The hands of a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight burned when spare lithium-ion batteries for a cell phone melted the zip-top bag in which they were carried, breached the passenger’s carry-on bag and produced smoke and flames.
A package of 18 lithium-ion batteries melted through their plastic wrap and set fire to their outer package at the UPS flight center in Louisville, Kentucky.
A FedEx pilot was taking the jump seat in the cockpit of a flight from Memphis when a lithium-ion battery in a flashlight carried in his backpack caught fire while the airplane was still at the gate.
The FAA cautions that their published list of scores of incidents does not represent all the information collected ….”
There are lots and lots of published and unpublished reports of incidents with anything lithium. As the incidents increase, it will become more and more of an issue until it becomes a crusade and some other method of making safe batteries will have to be found. Until then, there will be lots of knee jerk reactions by "agencies and governments". In the long run there will have to be another battery advancement, before all battery types using Lithium in some form becomes obsolete, but is there really anything else out there, to replace them? That is the most disconcerting. How does any government expect to stop the sale or transport of them, when they are used in just about everything electronic nowadays?
Yes! Mine got posted over the counter today and being sent to local post office. The package will not go through customs because I’m from Malaysia. So no international delivery as far as they’re concerned.
I bought from DX, a week ago, a lithium battery for Nikon camera, you think that even these do not pass the frontier?
The battery is this:
The Track Global Postal write:
Gulp! “Dispatch Pre-Alert”, what can it mean?
In the end if they ban lithium, it will only be single cell type. What I mean to say is it wont be batteries for cameras, laptops and phones etc that will be banned from flights.
The world turns on lithium powered devices, but not so much torches. Of course there is a difference between laptop liions and torch liions. I cant imagine what it is, but there WILL be one, give them time to spin it.
Magic batteries maybe…