Mark carter
Active Member
The USPS ships Gun parts I've used them numerous times.
UPS has officially stopped shipping guns?
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Stainless steel tube is exactly what it is or just label it NYFB!
If you watch any TV at all seems like there's class action lawsuits for everything except wet farts! There's surely gotta be millions $$$$$ at stake for some law firm to chase for the discrimination our sports deal with!
It was a rifle action. And I was unaware that they wouldn't ship from an individual. I'm not interested in taking a chance my that my Bat Vampire action I waited 8 months for ends up in some kind of shipping purgatory.
Hmm. Interesting on part shipment of guns with serial numbers. Even just an action.
fyi
if you use pirate ship .com you can pick choose the people you want to ship products and you will find it considerable cheaper than just walking into a store and shipping it.
print the label and tap it to your box.
fyi
if you use pirate ship .com you can pick choose the people you want to ship products and you will find it considerable cheaper than just walking into a store and shipping it.
print the label and tap it to your box.
arrow179
Well-Known Member
Back in the middle of Dec 2022 I had a prepaid UPS label attached to a box with a Magpul rifle stock all packaged up. I stopped at my local UPS hub (think small office attached to a huge UPS building with 100+ truck bays) and when the lady asked what I was shipping I said a "stock". She and the other lady in the office said I'm sorry but corporate has changed policies and you must be an FFL to ship any firearm or firearm parts. I was rather surprised and said it's not a firearm just a stock and they pulled out the sheet and showed me the UPS policy that now states you must have an account that allows you to ship these items and are a FFL. Granted I had shipped many guns and parts this way at the same location in the past 6-7 years without issue even when they asked what I was shipping I was very upfront and said "firearm" without any issues.
So, I walked out of there with my box still in hand. I then proceeded to stop at the local "UPS Store" and handed them the same box with the same label on it. No questions asked and it arrived in a timely fashion.
So very similar instance as the OP…
Looks like I'll be checking into this shipmygun.com next time as they apparently have an account with UPS to ship these type of items.
choprzrul
Well-Known Member
Hmmmm.....maybe write to your congress critters and the shipping companies. Thank them for supporting the small local gun shops....their new policies are making them lots of money and it's nice we can all come together to help keep their doors open.
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Sometimes you have to educate them to their own rules. I had to do that with my local hub about scopes and after phone time with manager and also UPS HQ to call and tell them they accepted the scope.
For rifles or pistols Shipmygun.com is the way now. Easy and legal.
In Phoenix, we have a main UPS store downtown that will ship guns, but you have to go to them. In this State, the UPS hubs are actually structured as spectate franchises that just use the UPS name. It's crazy though, different hubs have different rules. The hub by my house won't even ship bullets, let alone barrels, stocks exc. I have had awesome luck with USPS shipping guns, and the prices seem to be more consistent.
M1A1ABRAMS
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Does anyone think subsidies they received played a role here ?
US Treasury-provided borrowing subsidies and loan forgiveness $1.0 billion in broad tax exemptions $3.12 billion in the economy of scale advantages derived from its monopoly on delivering letters The added cost of maintaining this monopoly equates to an $18 billion gift to the post office every year. There are 143 million taxpayers in the US.
USPS Has Received Over $45 Billion from Taxpayers to Reduce the Cost of Junk Mail, Killing Billions of Trees - Think by Numbers
100 million trees and $178 billion worth of time could be saved every year by not subsidizing junk mail.
thinkbynumbers.org
Despite massive demand and government funding, FedEx and UPS have cut hiring by as much as 62%
"I'm working more than I ever have in almost 24 years," Jack Warren, a UPS ($NYSE:UPS) driver in Providence, Rhode Island, told CNN.
www.businessofbusiness.com
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milo-2
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You kind of have a point here. BUT, if you cannot make your own shipping label, UPS counter fills it out for you. And it is sent to the name and address on that FFL, and pretty often, that name has a firearm designation in it.
A box containing a rifle usually has a distinct shape and size.
I am positive every time I drive, I break laws, yes, I am that bad and really don't care. But shipping a pistol while declaring machined parts is not where I want to be in life.
Yea I saw that over there the other day. And I know the source is as solid as they come. I guess I don't have to worry about it as much because I don't ship a lot of firearms. But that is definitely a bad deal, and would definitely make me hesitant.
Blind Squirrel
Member
I had already quit using FedEx, looks like it's time to stop using UPS now too.
