In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
A Post Office Story
nunn
Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
I use the USPS for shipping all my firearms. It is cheaper than brown, and I don't have to drive 30 miles to a customer counter.
USPS provides "free" Priority Mail boxes for mailing stuff. One of those boxes has a triangular cross-section, and comes in two lengths. It is for sending rolled-up maps, blueprints, and such, but it works well for some long guns that take down. Put one part in one box, and the other part in another box. Normally, when I do this, I just fasten the two boxes together with tape, making one parcel.
Yesterday, I did just that with a single-shot shotgun. Postmaster lady weighed and measured it, and the computer figured the postage at just over $30. NO WAY! I have done this many times and never paid $30 to ship such a package. It was not over-sized, so there was no surcharge.
So, I pulled my knife and cut the tape joining the boxes and had her weigh and price them separately. It came to $25! The buyer will still get his shotgun, but in two boxes.
I think something is wrong with her computer.
USPS provides "free" Priority Mail boxes for mailing stuff. One of those boxes has a triangular cross-section, and comes in two lengths. It is for sending rolled-up maps, blueprints, and such, but it works well for some long guns that take down. Put one part in one box, and the other part in another box. Normally, when I do this, I just fasten the two boxes together with tape, making one parcel.
Yesterday, I did just that with a single-shot shotgun. Postmaster lady weighed and measured it, and the computer figured the postage at just over $30. NO WAY! I have done this many times and never paid $30 to ship such a package. It was not over-sized, so there was no surcharge.
So, I pulled my knife and cut the tape joining the boxes and had her weigh and price them separately. It came to $25! The buyer will still get his shotgun, but in two boxes.
I think something is wrong with her computer.
Comments
I have too. May have to do that next time, but I like to ship takedown guns in the shortest package possible, so that it doesn't scream "GUN!"
Lots of smallish handguns will fit in the 1096L box. The other day, I shipped two SIG P6 pistols, in their boxes, and one holster, to the same buyer. I used three 1096L boxes, one for each pistol and one for the holster. I stacked them up, taped them together, and shipped as one parcel, and the postage was far less than it would have been shipping three parcels. Go figure.
I think something is wrong with her computer.
You mean the one between her ears?[}:)]