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.

[pest]

Dont use a post office

In the malls you find a post service 

Pack it well send it 

Ive never used a Thaipost office but have sent a phone a cd burner flash drives to Perth Au never a problem 

[BoganInParasite]

Generally found my local post office and delivery guy to be okay but about a year ago was told I couldn't include a small Sharp 44 year old calculator in a package to my daughter in Australia. Still stunned by the idiocy of it all but truly don't know which organisation/country policy/procedures is causing the problem. So chose to accept the rejection gracefully and take to Australia in a carry-on bag.

[Classic Ray]

I’m still waiting for some medication sent from the UK ten years ago.

 

Also they managed to lose a birth certificate and delayed delivery of its replacement for a month recently

 

The unreliability of the domestic service is I believe the reason most banking and government procedures still need to be carried out in person rather than online applications with delivery by post as carried out in the rest of the world. Wasted an hour at the bank and wore my arm out with signatures just replacing an expired ATM card the other day. UK Banks send by post automatically.

 

The Government could start using Lazada to deliver documents, I find them very reliable compared to Thai Post.

[blaze master]

22 hours ago, Lacessit said:

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.

 

No it only shows you can't do it. Not attacking you simply pointing out how regularly you call other people dumb.

[Ben Zioner]

35 minutes ago, Classic Ray said:

I’m still waiting for some medication sent from the UK ten years ago.

 

Also they managed to lose a birth certificate and delayed delivery of its replacement for a month recently

 

The unreliability of the domestic service is I believe the reason most banking and government procedures still need to be carried out in person rather than online applications with delivery by post as carried out in the rest of the world. Wasted an hour at the bank and wore my arm out with signatures just replacing an expired ATM card the other day. UK Banks send by post automatically.

 

The Government could start using Lazada to deliver documents, I find them very reliable compared to Thai Post.

Lazada has never shipped anything...

 

(They rely on most of the services mentioned above).

[AustinRacing]

43 minutes ago, Classic Ray said:

I’m still waiting for some medication sent from the UK ten years ago.

 

Also they managed to lose a birth certificate and delayed delivery of its replacement for a month recently

 

The unreliability of the domestic service is I believe the reason most banking and government procedures still need to be carried out in person rather than online applications with delivery by post as carried out in the rest of the world. Wasted an hour at the bank and wore my arm out with signatures just replacing an expired ATM card the other day. UK Banks send by post automatically.

 

The Government could start using Lazada to deliver documents, I find them very reliable compared to Thai Post.

I think they help themselves to overseas packages. I’ve had 2 credit cards sent by banks overseas taken. I know this because one of them was used near my home for movie tickets and Grab food delivery. 

[Surasak]

Mid November last, I packed a mobile phone, battery separately but in the same package, to send to the UK. I was asked the contents and said a phone. Cannot send with battery, she said. I said, no battery. Then I get, no telephone number, cannot send with no phone number. I tried to explain that the house number, post code and UK, would get it to the correct address. Insists must have phone number. I couldn't remember the number, so wrote eleven random numbers. Settled that little problem at a cost of 1300b.

Only in Thailand.

[edwardflory]

Every post office is different.

 

I sent a Android TV Box, IDENTIFIED it as such, to the US with no problems - filled out the US custom form and identified that the package contained the TV Box.

Took about 4 weeks to be delivered and was unopened by US Customs. 

Go figure!

[nauseus]

On 1/22/2025 at 11:01 AM, 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?

 

Just bury it in a tub of Vegemite and post that. 

[Straight-Beginning98]

Very simple solution for shipping large amounts of data, large files. Use Dropbox. Both sender and receiver install the Dropbox application and can share any amount of data. Voila. Or you can try https://www.filemail.com/ , also for sending large files, free.

[Krabi King]

2025 tip: There is a thing they call "the cloud". You can upload to the net whatever you like and give other people access to it. No need to send data carriers all over the planet.

Lots of free services available, like Mega.

[Krabi King]

2 minutes ago, Straight-Beginning98 said:

Very simple solution for shipping large amounts of data, large files. Use Dropbox. Both sender and receiver install the Dropbox application and can share any amount of data. Voila. Or you can try https://www.filemail.com/ , also for sending large files, free.

You beat me to it 🙂

[steven100]

1 hour ago, Classic Ray said:

I’m still waiting for some medication sent from the UK ten years ago.

 

it's on the way,   it got delayed in Mongolia .... should arrive next tuesday  

[steven100]

19 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

Just bury it in a tub of Vegemite and post that. 

yeah '   that'll do it     !!  

[Dazinoz]

I once tried to post a Ledger Nano X to Oz. It was packed ready to post. It does have a battery although very small. Post office response was can not, battery. Ok. So I cheated and took in a Nano+ which does not have battery and this model has a clear plastic case. Told post office staff similar in package (wasn't lying). They looked at the + and said battery. I said no battery in this. He looked and asked how to turn on. I said needs to be plugged into computer to get power. He talked to other staff an realised could not win on battery he said can not has circuit board. I left. I then took a Thai friend to another post office and in a few minute accepted and posted.

[Guderian]

Some years ago, I posted an important letter to HMRC in the UK via the EMS track & trace service at the main Pattaya Post Office. Not cheap. Anyway, the letter arrived at Heathrow and then disappeared, so I went back to the post office and asked them to find out what had happened to it. Talk about unhelpful, the guy behind the counter was basically saying to me in Thai, "Why should I, WTF has that got to do with me or this Post Office, falang idiot!" So I found a more senior Thai personage and, when I told them that the letter had arrived in Heathrow but then vanished from the tracking system, she told me that I needed to phone Heathrow airport and ask them where it had gone. Like Heathrow is the same size and as easily navigable as, say your local 7-eleven, lol. In the end, I printed another copy of the letter and sent it again, and this time it got there. Between that experience and Thai Post more or less having given up on actual physical delivery of letters in Pattaya any more than two or three times a year, I try not to bother with the mail any more.

[Lacessit]

2 hours ago, nauseus said:

 

Just bury it in a tub of Vegemite and post that. 

It would be a good idea if Vegemite was not loaded with salt, therefore corrosive.