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.

[Lacessit]

Update - went to Lanna Post. Same answer, even for a thumb drive. I assume new rules.

 

DHL will send to Australia. 2000 baht for something smaller than a slice of bread. Ouch.

[blaze master]

Oh look the OP is callling people dumb again. 

[Dante99]

19 hours ago, Lacessit said:

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

Since it is all you it must be the former.

[Will27]

I've had good results sending stuff to Oz with Kerry Express.

[Lacessit]

16 hours ago, blaze master said:

Oh look the OP is callling people dumb again. 

I look forward to the day when you post something useful and knowledgeable.

[blaze master]

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

I look forward to the day when you post something useful and knowledgeable.

 

You first.

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, blaze master said:

 

You first.

Already done. This thread now shows one can't send anything with circuitry overseas with Thai Post, even if it is only a USB stick.

 

Perhaps in your haste to attack me, you omitted to read the rest of the thread.

 

Your turn with useful information.