Regarding Shipping a Firearm

[ANADRILL]

Whats the best method FED-Ex or UPS, and will they allow you use your own box, or will they have something big enough to accommodate a rifle?

[BPTactical]

I like FedEx, they have a better chain of custody. Get a different box, you want no indicators of the contents. The UPS stores sell a "snowboard" box that works well.

[HBARleatherneck]

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[Zundfolge]

Keep in mind that if you're shipping a rifle you are allowed to use USPS which will cost significantly less than UPS or FedEx overnight.

[Great-Kazoo]

Keep in mind that if you're shipping a rifle you are allowed to use USPS which will cost significantly less than UPS or FedEx overnight.


Unfortunately IF a rifle does not show up, no matter how many tracking tags on it with the post office, you're screwed. Their accountability is well, in the shitter. Having lost USPS packages before, their attitude was, well we'll look in to it.Top that off with the moral issues due to hours cut, benefits slashed and the post office would be my last resort. FedHex and UPS have a very good tracking system vs. USPS. and they take it serious when a firearm or firearm related item goes missing. YMMV

[JohnTRourke]

Another vote for Fed Ex. Their clerks know their stuff, the firearms have always shown up right on time and way less surly than the UPS shippers.

remember, you have to go to a hub to ship, you can't do it from Kinko's/UPS store.

It's usually right around $25 to ship a long gun in CONUS (either UPS or FedEx)

NEVER use USPS for something you actually want to show up.

[CrufflerSteve]

I'd vote for UPS if you are shipping as a non-FFL. They know the rules and are easy to deal with.

USPS is expensive on insurance and is terrible about paying claims.

FedEx is a gamble. Their tariffs are confusing so if you get an anti-gun clerk you are screwed.

Steve

[flan7211]

UPS, straight forward, affordable, and don't care what your shipping.

[jerrymrc]

I'd vote for UPS if you are shipping as a non-FFL. They know the rules and are easy to deal with.

USPS is expensive on insurance and is terrible about paying claims.

FedEx is a gamble. Their tariffs are confusing so if you get an anti-gun clerk you are screwed.

Steve

Just a side note. UPS will not allow you to ship to yourself anymore. Now shipping to an FFL is easy for a non FFL at the hub here in the springs.[Flower]

And I hate Fed Ex for home deliveries. There contract drivers do not give a shit at least here.

[asmo]

UPS == Union fucktards
FedEx == non-union tards

choose wisely.

[JohnTRourke]

UPS == Union fucktards
FedEx == non-union tards

choose wisely.

USPS == government union fucktards

[jerrymrc]

USPS == government union fucktards

Your dead wrong. They have there own (and own benefits) and besides at least working for the fed gov you do not have to be a member of the union so please get your facts straight before you go and try and call me and a few other Mods a fucktard thank you very much...........

[JohnTRourke]

Your dead wrong. They have there own (and own benefits) and besides at least working for the fed gov you do not have to be a member of the union so please get your facts straight before you go and try and call me and a few other Mods a fucktard thank you very much...........


USPS == government union fucktards minus a few contract workers.

Minus that small bit of clarity on contract workers, I think i was pretty clear in my opinion of any government union "employees" and I made no personal attacks of any kind.

and let's be clear on this too, if anyone is employed by the government at ANY level, they are part of the problem not part of the solution.

[BPTactical]

and let's be clear on this too, if anyone is employed by the government at ANY level, they are part of the problem not part of the solution.

Gross over generalization.

That's funny, I don't recall being any sort of problem to anybody when I was plowing snow so they could make it home safe and sound, setting guardrail to prevent some drunken slob from rolling down an embankment, patching potholes so people didn't have to spend their hard earned money re-aligning and fixing flats on their cars, laying down a 4" thick, 275 degree mat of asphalt on a 100 degree day so the highway was safer or picking up trash along the highway because of the scumbag public that is too lazy to drop their trash in a can or the piece of crap mobile meth labs hazardous waste over the last 22 years.

No problem to anybody, aside from the selfish jerks that feel we are inconvenient and in their way.
No problem except to the drunken and drugged bitch that got on the highway the wrong way and killed two co-workers that were my friends.

[sniper7]

USPS == government union fucktards minus a few contract workers.

Minus that small bit of clarity on contract workers, I think i was pretty clear in my opinion of any government union "employees" and I made no personal attacks of any kind.

and let's be clear on this too, if anyone is employed by the government at ANY level, they are part of the problem not part of the solution.

You realize the USPS is required by the constitution right? Mail service is part of our history back to the pony express days. I believe they need a serious reorganization but that needs to happen on the high up federal level.

So I assume if you had any kids that they went to private school?

What is your idea of the "solution"? Where do you think we should go?

[sniper7]

Article I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution), Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution), known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress) "To establish Post Offices (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_office) and post Roads (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_road)".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause

[Aloha_Shooter]

and let's be clear on this too, if anyone is employed by the government at ANY level, they are part of the problem not part of the solution.

I am no fan of overexpanded government or unions for government workers but let's be clear on this -- your statement is a gross (and grotesque) overgeneralization. Your statement is nothing but uninformed ill-reasoned anarchist bunk. Thomas Jefferson said, "that government is best that governs least" -- NOT "that government is best that doesn't govern at all."

[Inconel710]

I am no fan of overexpanded government or unions for government workers but let's be clear on this -- your statement is a gross (and grotesque) overgeneralization. Your statement is nothing but uninformed ill-reasoned anarchist bunk. Thomas Jefferson said, "that government is best that governs least" -- NOT "that government is best that doesn't govern at all."

Amen. There are plenty of liberty minded people working in the government.

[DSull]

We have a small gunsmithing business and when we ship we use USPS, no problems.