I received my new Dell laptop battery in the mail yesterday. Dell provided a return address label and instructions to put the old battery in the box and cover the old label with the return address label. The beauty is I can drop the battery box into any mailbox.
If I understand correctly, and there’s every chance I don’t, the problem with the batteries is that little filings from the manufacturing process could sneak through to the lithium ion power center and cause the battery to burst into flames. It seems to me that any serious jostling could send those filings into the danger zone.
If you hear about a mailbox fire on Main Street in Richmond today, you’ll know that it was my battery that burst into flames as I tossed it into the mailbox.