post office problems

[geordie_vaper]

person at the post office today said they dont send anything with batteries or nicotine in them? so was just seeing how vendors can but we cant?

[Steve (VapeStorm)]

Dont tell them, simples lol

[geordie_vaper]

then if they check they take the item of you and thats its done n dusted?

[Steve (VapeStorm)]

Chances of which are millions to one. I wouldnt worry

[geordie_vaper]

dont no if they would hust take the nicotie and batterys or whatever else was in the parcle

[jaysey]

Jan 27, 2014 13:42:20 GMT geordie_vaper said:

dont no if they would hust take the nicotie and batterys or whatever else was in the parcle

I've posted plenty , they have to ask under regulations , but I just say , essential oils , food colouring or make up , or if your feeling brave tell them it's a sex toy and they won't ask any more questions

[geordie_vaper]

Jan 27, 2014 14:58:57 GMT jaysey said:

Jan 27, 2014 13:42:20 GMT geordie_vaper said:

dont no if they would hust take the nicotie and batterys or whatever else was in the parcle

I've posted plenty , they have to ask under regulations , but I just say , essential oils , food colouring or make up , or if your feeling brave tell them it's a sex toy and they won't ask any more questions

hahahaha think all pass on that but that would be funny as hell

[fred]

Batteries are classified as a restricted item, so they need to be sent some form of special service, as long as they are sent with a device.

Ejuice has NO restrictions which can be imposed in sending it. It IS NOT a poison - to be so classified, it must be over 75mg/ml. It does not fall into any other restricted category as far as I am aware.

As has been said, and suggested before:

Post Office employees now HAVE to ask what is in the parcel.

To which you reply,

"Nothing which is on the prohibited or restricted list."
Job done

But its always better to tell them its a broken sex toy being returned for refund No, it doesn't contain batteries, you plug it into the mains

[vapeguy]

I aways say its metal tubes if sending a mod I sometimes hide batteries in side the tubes tbh never had an issue

[monty]

Just Royal Mail chucking the responsibility onto the Post Offices. Post Office has to check and spend time going through the regulations and probably will be financially responsible if anything goes wrong. Costs the person who owns the Post Office for extra work but Royal Mail don't pay for that. Government happy if custommers don't like it - they want to close as many Post Offices as they can. They already pay the Post Office less to handle forms (eg car tax disc renweal) than they pay government computerised centres.

[ionian]

I usually tell the truth, and say "plastic and metal parts for e-cigarettes - no batteries". Last time when asked, I just pulled out my evic and said "one of these" - the lady took some convincing that it was an e-cig, asked me the usual questions about how they work but accepted it without problems. When I send juice I tend to wrap the bottles together in cling film and kitchen roll, so they just feel like a bumpy square package anyway.

To be fair, the restrictions are in place to protect the staff - last thing they need is a battery going thermal while in a sack, or exploding in the postie's bag, so as inconvenient as the rules are they are there for the right reason. I'd like to say I've therefore never posted a battery without declaring it, but I'd be fibbing