Anyone shipped an iPhone/Mobile Phone to Australia?

Posted by Taz_Diablo@reddit | AskABrit | View on Reddit | 23 comments

Wanting to ship my old iphone14 pro back to Oz so my Mum can get upgrade from whatever brick she is currently rocking! Royal Post says no to shipping electronic devices with lithium batteries internationally. Wondering if anyone has used another courier or service they would recommend?

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Any-Pattern8246@reddit

It's allowed. I shipped ipads and iphones to people before via royal mail. The first time I posted an iphone was the iphone 3gs and I had upgraded to iphone 4 and my friend wanted my iphone 3gs so I gave it to him and he lives in America. This was years ago.

Similar story to ipad sold an old ipad air when I upgraded to ipad pro and this was about 3 or 4 years ago

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en70uk@reddit

I sent a laptop back to Austria via dhl if that helps

It had much larger lithium ion battery than a phone

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meatflaps-69@reddit

DHL says no on paper

https://send.dhlparcel.co.uk/resources/sending-batteries

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en70uk@reddit

Interesting, mine was declared as a laptop with battery and was happily collected and delivered

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meatflaps-69@reddit

Seems absolutely wild given that almost everyone on a plane has a flammable phone with em 🙆

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HarketSavoy@reddit

Yes, where if the phone/battery explodes or leaks, it can be dealt with asap. They don’t allow any batteries/electronics in the hold. I have a memory of batteries leaking on a cargo plane and bringing down the entire plane.

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NotoriousREV@reddit

A person with a phone will notice when the battery bursts into flames. It takes a little longer for someone to notice it when said phone is sealed in a box, piled up with another bunch of boxes in an unmanned cargo hold. HTH.

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meatflaps-69@reddit

Cool. meanwhile theres entire 747s chartered by the yanks carrying munitions. They'd soon notice a fire in those right enough in its rapid unscheduled disassembly

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NotoriousREV@reddit

But, again, they’re aware they’re carrying munitions and treat them accordingly.

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en70uk@reddit

Agree, My power bank even had to be out of hand luggage on an emirates flight last year

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HarketSavoy@reddit

It’s very likely that you used a specific box with labels declaring it contained Lithium battery. As it was in Europe, it was shipped by sea. They don’t allow Ion/Lithium batteries on planes. You can only carry batteries on your person.

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en70uk@reddit

Box bought off Amazon and shipped airfreight , this was only 4 months ago too

I did question the fact it was battery and when d piped off at parcel shop I re iterated that

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porchoua@reddit

Yeah I had the same problem last year shipping my old MacBook Air from the UK to my sister in Sydney. Royal Mail wouldn’t touch it because of the lithium battery so I used a specialist international courier instead. I looked up how much does it cost to ship to australia and it came out around £58 with full tracking and insurance. It arrived safe in 8 days and she was using it the same week with no customs hassle at all. Just declare it honestly as a personal used device and you’ll be fine.

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