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mlts22
Explorer
Apr 09, 2016

Batteries and acid shipped in different containers?

Right after each other, both the recoil rope broke and the starter battery of my 3000 watt Yamaha generator died. Rather than disassemble the darn thing to get a new pull rope added, I went and repla...
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coolmom42
Explorer II
Apr 10, 2016
2oldman wrote:
Amazon: "WE CANNOT SHIP FLOODED LEAD ACID BATTERIES VIA FEDEX OR UPS"

Must be freight.


It's not that Amazon CAN'T -- they just don't want to pay for the packaging, labor to pack, and someone to do the paperwork, and extra charges for a heavy hazardous material package.

A 60+ pound hazmat (Class 8, corrosive, packing group II for sulfuric acid) package is not trivial.

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