Shipping bullets

[bugle20]

Any restrictions by either UPS or USPS in shipping bullets (not loaded cartridges) through the mail?

 

[Dosh]

To be clear you are referring to jacketed lead or solid copper projectiles? No restrictions. I've shipped and received hundreds via USPS with full disclosure. No problems.

 

[bugle20]

To be clear you are referring to jacketed lead or solid copper projectiles? No restrictions. I've shipped and received hundreds via USPS with full disclosure. No problems.

Yes, just a box full of pieces of copper. Do you disclose it or just put them in a box and ship?

 

[19 Badger]

Just box it and ship it...

 

[bugle20]

Just box it and ship it...

Thanks!

 

[JMW67]

there are no restrictions but if they ask you what it is do not tell them bullets it screws everything up just tell them lead heads or so other crap I made the mistake of saying bullets and had to unbox it AND ARGUE WITH THE POSTMASTER finally got them shipped

 

[bugle20]

Great advice. Thank you

 

[19 Badger]

Rivets, nuts and bolts...

 

[Dosh]

My full disclosure is truthful. I tell them copper and lead castings unfinished.

 

[crazyhorse]

Just box it and ship it. If they require disclosure, its "copper fittings".

 

[JMW67]

or just tell them its meat tenderizer

 

[HockeyDad]

USPS. Not only just the projectiles, but I mailed a bunch of .223 factory ammunition to a buddy a few months ago. I even asked the gal at the counter, I said I am mailing ammunition, do I need to ship it as hazardous material or anything, and she said. no. No extra charge either, just regular rates.

 

[Muddyboots]

All the USPS needs to know legally are the hazmat, battery, liquids, mercury, perfume as questions. If they ask specifically, I tell them I already told you what it is not. That is ALL they can ask.

 

[Swamplord]

don't ever tell them you're shipping "bullets" , the general public automaticaly translates that to ammunition... hell, even a large percentage of folks who own guns don't know the difference

don't tell them "lead" either, because most people have been conditioned to think that a piece of lead, is a highly toxic thing and react irrationally

friend of mine who has been a postal employee for 25+ years, he hunts, shoots targets and handloads all his ammo

this is what he intructed me to use and it is 100% truthful and will not create any undue problems

"non-ferrous metal components"

non-ferrous metals include = Copper, lead, aluminum, brass, tin and zinc, basically everything most bullets contain in one form or another

"components" are simply parts of something and is a legal & truthful term to use and bullets are in fact components .... of a cartridge

same can be applied to shipping brass