[QUOTE= PS: A UPS freind of mine told me yesterday that they do not carry lithium batteries as cargo any longer (just as equipment in the ELT and ship's batteries on the 787).[/QUOTE]
UPS hauls lithium batteries just about every weekend on the military charters. Hopefully they're not sitting out on a scorching hot tarmac somewhere in the middle east for hours prior to being loaded onto an aircraft with class one explosives also on board.