Explosive cell phone may be on the post
The postal service is accepting returns of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which poses an explosion hazard.
This was communicated by the company of boss Susanne Ruoff on request. "We do not have a transport ban," a Post spokesman told Handelszeitung. However, it is generally forbidden to send dangerous goods by post. The responsibility lies with the sender, he said. "However, we cannot look into the packages". According to the spokesman, there have been no incidents with any of the defective devices so far.
In the US, the parcel service FedEx and UPS refuse to accept the defective phone. DHL, a Deutsche Post subsidiary, is also not sending shipments with the defective Galaxy Note 7 in Europe and Switzerland. The phone had caught fire or exploded in some cases (Werbewoche.ch reported). The Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung is therefore recalling all devices that have already been shipped. Around 2.5 million phones are said to be affected worldwide.
