Amazon UK found guilty of trying to airmail dangerous goods
by Simon Bowers from Technology | The Guardian on (#1VRHW)
Online retailer fined 65,000 and ordered to pay 60,000 costs for despatching batteries and aerosols for airmail
Amazon UK has been found guilty and fined 65,000 for breaking aviation safety laws after repeatedly trying to send dangerous goods by airmail.
A judge at Southwark crown court in London said on Friday that Amazon knew the rules, had been warned repeatedly, but had failed to take reasonable care. Although the risks from the goods sent for shipment by air were low, Judge Michael Grieve QC blamed the breaches on "systemic failure" at the online retailer.
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