Clark W. Griswold
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I would recommend selling your battery here in the U.S. and then getting another battery in the country you move to. You will have to go by sea generally if you want to send the whole thing but it is still a lot of work.
I am glad you got FedEx to say they couldn't help you (not because I don't want you to ship), they once said to me "we can ship that" and I had to tell them you actually can't it is a hazmat and he was confused and I explained it to him and still never got that battery solved from them and DHL was an even worse nightmare. Shipping batteries is an absolute nightmare. I was hazmat certified by FedEx and UPS and still have issues shipping batteries luckily we convinced Specialized and Bosch to stop needing to take batteries back and now with Call2Recycle I could just put them in a box (assuming not thermal) and they had a label on it and would take it and take care of it safely.