<div dir="ltr"><div><div>The international battery issue is due to carriers (ie. the people flying planes). Some will transport them, some won't.<br></div><br></div>Perhaps if you use courier post rather than straight post that will be Ok?<br><br>I've bought heaps of gun parts, bullets, gunpowder etc via couriers - no problem. Fastways seems to be quite good at handling these.<br><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Volker Kuhlmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:list0570@paradise.net.nz" target="_blank">list0570@paradise.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed 23 Aug 2017 10:30:24 NZST +1200, Mark Atherton wrote:<br>
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> Anyone have similar experiences - and suggestions about<br>
> low-cost-carriers who might handle these-new-hazrads<br>
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</span>Late last year I ordered some decent 18650 from Aliexpress. For some<br>
months they haven't shipped to NZ, and no-one else does any more either.<br>
<br>
NZPost is becoming more useless by the day. I suspect there's no way<br>
round, because it's probably the international shippers that are<br>
clamping down on everything interesting.<br>
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Volker<br>
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