Shipping a camera and battery via USPS?

[jmr1068215]

I'm selling a smalled used digitial camera, battery and charger. My preferred method of shipment is USPS. The camera is small enough to be wrapped and shipped via a USPS flat rate box and shouldn't have any issue with damage. Plus that would give a lot better protection than say, a bubble mailer. There are smaller boxes that I can get, but I still don't feel that they have the strength of a small USPS flat rate box. I would ship the battery inside of the camera, but I'm reading that apparently there has to be some sort of markings on the box stating that it has to be shipped via ground only and contains a Li-ion battery. I've never done that before.

A USPS Priority flat rate box...when select that option through Ebay, it has a check box for "Package contains mailable hazardous materials."  Checking it doesn't seem to actually do anything. The link next to it refers you to vague rules that bounce back and forth. Will that place any type of message on the label when it prints? Can it still go via Priority flat rate box if it is hazardous? There isn't exactly a "ground only" option that I see with USPS.

[jmr1068215]

This a domestic package, by the way. It will no doubt be going many states away, however. I haven't even bothered to list it yet because I want to get all of the kinks in the shipping worked out first.

[packratville]

Here's a link from USPS regarding Lithium Ion Batteries:

https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c3_027.htm

This link (also USPS) shows an image of the label that's been on the packages I've received containing cameras with batteries, and camera batteries:

https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2015/pb22408/html/updt_008.htm

You may be able to find a printable, or downloadable label for your box.

Hope this helps.

[jmr1068215]

Am I correct that the only USPS "ground" equivalent is the super slow Parcel Select? Apparently these can't go on planes.

[loveyourimagination49]

Lithium Metal and Lithium-ion Cells and Batteries — Domestic

Lithium metal (nonrechargeable) cells and batteries and lithium-ion (rechargeable) cells and batteries are mailable in limited quantities domestically via air or surface transportation when they are installed in or packed with the equipment they are intended to operate. Unless otherwise excepted, lithium metal and lithium-ion batteries (without equipment) are mailable in limited quantities domestically via surface transportation only.
From the link provided by packrat