I went to mail a laptop by courier to the US and was told that they had to open it up, turn it on, get "MSDS papers" for the lithium battery or they cannot accept it because the US customs will reject it otherwise.

A lot to process while I stood there with the package that I spent 40 minutes packing yesterday to make it secure for the long trip.

Then they said that IF the US recipient was the one to generated the airbill, then I could just stick it on and it will be acceptable.

Huh?! 😡