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$103.............

SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
......that's what Fed Ex charged to ship a handgun from Salt Lake City, Utah to Charlestown, Indiana.

One of my sons is in SLC going to school. He needed to sell a FNH handgun so I bought it from him and sent him an extra $50 for shipping (he's my kid you know). Even though he is still an Indiana resident I had him ship it to a local FFL so there wouldn't be any possible issues.

Then Fed EX charged him $103 to ship!!!! Had I known that I would have had him hold it until he visited home or he could have looked for an FFL to ship it through the USPS.

Ridicules rules make for ridicules rates!
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511 ✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds crazy high to me.
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    $OUCH$
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,375 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought last I saw ups made you ship overnight 25.00 .
    god gracious 100.00 will slow down handgun sales
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    That's when an FFL is your friend.

    In Indiana (and probably Utah as well) it shouldn't be an issue to find one that does a transfer for 15, 20 bucks. Add 12.95 priority flat rate shipping and you're still far,far ahead of where you would be as a citizen with no FFL using overnight on a common carrier.
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by jonk
    That's when an FFL is your friend.

    In Indiana (and probably Utah as well) it shouldn't be an issue to find one that does a transfer for 15, 20 bucks. Add 12.95 priority flat rate shipping and you're still far,far ahead of where you would be as a citizen with no FFL using overnight on a common carrier.


    Had he told me what they were charging that is what I would have told him to do. But he only told me what shipping was because I asked. This of course was after he had already shipped it. Like I told him "live and learn".
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My brother in law mailed a brand new S&W M&P 40 from Arizona back to NJ via USPS. for under 15 dollars. How you say??? He took it apart and mailed it in separate pieces in flat rate box and envelopes. I was quite impressed. I got it, put it back together, and it was waiting for him when he got home.Oakie
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