Post office stupidity.

[Lacessit]

I took a 2 TB hard drive to the Chiang Rai post office, to post to my son in Australia. Cannot. When I asked why, the staff claimed it would be returned to sender when X'rayed, as it has a circuit board.

 

Try again. I take a 64 GB thumb drive the next day. Again, cannot. But but but I have posted this thumb drive back and forth to a friend in Chiang Mai repeatedly, no problem. Cannot.

 

AFAIK Thailand imports thousands of laptops and millions of thumb drives. According to AI, my drives do not contain batteries, therefore Thai Post can send them anywhere.

 

Is it rank stupidity, or the pleasure some bored flunky gets screwing with a farang?

 

Which international courier is recommended as the most reliable?

[novacova]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Which international courier is recommended as the most reliable?

EMS or fedex 

[xylophone]

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

I took a 2 TB hard drive to the Chiang Rai post office, to post to my son in Australia. Cannot. When I asked why, the staff claimed it would be returned to sender when X'rayed, as it has a circuit board.

 

Try again. I take a 64 GB thumb drive the next day. Again, cannot. But but but I have posted this thumb drive back and forth to a friend in Chiang Mai repeatedly, no problem. Cannot.

 

AFAIK Thailand imports thousands of laptops and millions of thumb drives. According to AI, my drives do not contain batteries, therefore Thai Post can send them anywhere.

 

Is it rank stupidity, or the pleasure some bored flunky gets screwing with a farang?

 

Which international courier is recommended as the most reliable?

Saddened to hear that Lacessit because up until just recently I was sending around five or six thumb drives to my friend in Australia on which I would copy movies for him, so perhaps things have changed now?

 

When I used to take the little package into the post office they would ask me what was in it and I would hold up my thumb and say "computer" and I posted them without any problem – – – new rules maybe??

[Lacessit]

1 minute ago, xylophone said:

Saddened to hear that Lacessit because up until just recently I was sending around five or six thumb drives to my friend in Australia on which I would copy movies for him, so perhaps things have changed now?

 

When I used to take the little package into the post office they would ask me what was in it and I would hold up my thumb and say "computer" and I posted them without any problem – – – new rules maybe??

Mine serves the same purpose for TV series.

 

It may be new rules in response to explosives technology, but it is immediately traceable to the passport I have to show when posting anything.

[CharlieH]

I would try another Post Office, you know how things can vary by who you speak to here.

 

[Lacessit]

46 minutes ago, novacova said:

EMS or fedex 

IIRC EMS is an arm of Thai Post.