DS1's birthday at the weekend. Mostly getting cash, but bought a few small gifts which I tried to post today.
Got to the post office desk, and was asked as usual about the contents of parcel 1. 'A hand blender', I said, blithely. Frown. Call to back office. No, they had a lady in a couple of weeks ago trying to post a blender, and it was magnetised, and magnets aren't allowed, so no, you cannot post this item. Magnets, in a hand blender? Well bugger me. I have come home to google this, and I cannot find anything about magnets in a cheapo hand blender anywhere. 'Blame the Civil Aviation Authority', says Mrs Post Office (usually perfectly nice, but today my deadly enemy). Well I would, if we lived anywhere near an airport and I thought the parcel might be getting on a plane instead of a 3-hour drive.
She gave me a leaflet about posting hazardous material, but I cannot for the life of me see anything that might have made me rethink matters. So. AIBU or just entirely clueless about electrical matters? And am I safe to give the damn thing to someone to post in a different post office calling it something else?