Lithium batteries (Lipo, LiFe, lithium ion etc)
Royal Mail will not carry these batteries to either UK or international destinations. Although Royal Mail rules allow for lithium batteries to be sent with equipment, in practice these rules are ignored & packages containing equipment with batteries are intercepted by Royal Mail & are destroyed.
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I’m sorry guys. :cry:
I hope it doesn’t happen here. 
Ditto
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Royal Mail restricts the sending of all paper letters due to the combustible nature of the material :email: :laughing:
Since when was that the case? I’ve been getting batteries no problems in the UK.
They can’t check every parcel.
As said above can’t check them all. Its how the drug trade works. Majority is sent through the mail. Less then 1% a year is ever seized. The scanners at customs scan for radiation.
When I was in the Marines I probably had over 100 packs of steroids sent to me from about 20 different countries. And only had 3 package seized.
The govt doesn’t have the time or man power to try to prove you ordered this or that for what would just ve a probation conviction. They wait 45 days ahd destroy it if you dobt try to claim it. If you did have a fda liscense. So batteries id order away. UK mail is full of steroids. A lot are made their from Chinese powders.
One got through to me today and I had 4 a couple of weeks ago.
So if the battery is in a flashlight (which could turn on accidentally) its fine, or ship them in a box with “electronic device” written on it.
Received my Blitzwolf BW P2 mini usb charger with a Panasonic li-ion battery in it this morning.
I also posted a similar device to a friend in the Uk last week that got through OK.
Seems to me that the shop in the OP is pushing their “deal” with a courier. I’ve also shipped li-ion batteries using Hermes, which was actually cheaper than using Royal Mail. Their rules also prohibit batteries, but so far, no problems.
This isn’t true (thing it’s possible it’s happened to the writer of the article who has extrapolated to somehow make it a general problem).
I regularly send and receive electronic devices with lithium batteries and spares included, up till now I’ve never had a problem with sending or receiving and I declare the batteries included when sending the item.
I sent 2 such parcels only yesterday and they both arrived without any issue. I’ve probably sent and received more than 50 such parcels in the last month or so.
Here is the page detailing quantities allowed https://business.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/898/~/restricted-goods—-uk
If they were really destroying items that complied they would be liable to pay the full compensation for the item destroyed.
Pretty sure the OP story is just a scare story…