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get a load of this...Y does anyone use UPS...

michael minarikmichael minarik Member Posts: 478 ✭✭✭
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
The gun is packed in cotton cloth, inside a taped shut, hard plastic, foam-lined gun case, which is inside two inches of taped on bubble wrap, inside a cardboard box. My only worry is UPS said they had to open the package to ensure the gun was actually there and they would re-wrap it. I insured it for $400.00.

Seems to me UPS would need a warrant to open a package and now that they re-opened it who is liable for damages should there be any! I have not used UPS in a year and have had no problems, none whatsoever!
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    UPS always wanted to open the package and inspect the rifle. To see if it was there and UNLOADED. I got tired of having to repackage every time and I did not trust the job they did. That is why I switched to USPS for long guns. Never had them want to open one yet.

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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They would not need a warrant to open and inspect the contents. The item is in their care and they have the right to inspect it to make sure it does not violate DOT rules.
    They do have the duty to insure that the packing is resecured, and take due and dilligent care in the transporting of that package.

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  • Harleeman1030Harleeman1030 Member Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have shipped a few guns. But i have never had them want to open one..I get kinda ruff with em as soon as they say do you know how to with a gun LOL.I just really let em know i know what the hell i am doing..I have had more trouble with USPS..Shipped a barrel in a 4" round contianer (sp)the guy was telling me there was no way i could get insurance on it because it did not have at least 2 inches of packing around a freakin what 1 inch barrel ?I had bubble wrap and peanuts all around it

    Pros and cons to both

    but i have shipped three guns at once and ups sent all three to the wrong people lol

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    Edited by - harleeman1030 on 09/12/2002 01:57:43
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  • michael minarikmichael minarik Member Posts: 478 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    FOLLOW UP FROM SHIPPER TO MY FFL who shipped A Marlin rifle....

    That's nothing....at first they(UPS) tried to convince me it had to be shipped via
    air, next day, at $67.56.

    Fortunately I was prepared and pointed out to them their own G.I. (General
    Information) screen indicated long guns can go ground.
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  • HighNoonHighNoon Member Posts: 444 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Last year I had to return a pistol to Ruger for some factory repairs. They returned it (fixed of course) by overnight UPS, requiring a signature. Now I live in a rural area but there is still traffic on the road. The idiot left it laying next to my mailbox, out in the open. No signature of course.

    I emailed their corporate headquarters in Atlanta. The bottom line was that this guy was on the route for so many years, he could do whatever he wanted.

    Nice way to run a company, not to mention endangering children, potentially if someone had decided to steal the box.
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  • mkirklandmkirkland Member Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah, UPS is Union(one of the strongest) screwing with one of their drivers is no easy task. Although I think rules are rules, but I think we are in the minority.
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  • ATFATF Member Posts: 11,683 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have been shipping guns for about twelve years by UPS and have never been asked what's in the package.When I tell them they have never asked that it be opened. I think it has a lot to do with where you are located.

    ATF

    Edited by - ATF on 09/12/2002 11:20:23
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Based on personal experience and anecdotal evidence, it is all too clear that while there are company rules / policies, when the rubber hits the road, it's the drivers & terminal managers who call the shots depending on their moods & political beliefs.
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Just had a computer delivered by these clowns, looks like someone took a louisville slugger upside the top of it. Greedy amateurs.
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  • RancheroPaulRancheroPaul Member Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Policy followed is that which the Person in Charge decides. If a power happy "do it my way" sort of individual....you will jump through the hoops....!!

    If the Person in Charge just wants "Results" then that's another matter and things go quite well.....! It's interesting to watch a Person who doesn't care about Results but only the Manner in which the process proceeds.....and the more complicated the process, the higher their level of satisfaction.....

    How come the first individual is always the one I get to deal with?



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    Edited by - RancheroPaul on 09/17/2002 09:57:10
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  • gmayesgmayes Member Posts: 415 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Who knows what UPS is thinking. if they don't get thier way they go on strike.
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