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Addressing a firearms package for USPS shipment
taperloc
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When you ship a rifle or shotgun to an FFL via. USPS, how do you address the package if the FFL is something like " JOE'S GUN SHOP " USPS regs. state that you are not to mark that it is a firearm in the package, but it seems to me that from the size, shape, and weight of the package and with a gun shop address, it would be a dead give away that it was a gun.
UPS will not accept any firearm from a non-FFL. I went all the way to the shipping manager at the UPS home office and she told me they would not accept my firearms packages.
Comments please
UPS will not accept any firearm from a non-FFL. I went all the way to the shipping manager at the UPS home office and she told me they would not accept my firearms packages.
Comments please
Comments
It is not UPS policy to refuse to ship firearms from a non-ffl holder. The person you talked to was unaware of company policy. Someone one here will probably cite the UPS company reg that covers shipping firearms. I am an ffl holder and don't have reason to remember it.
When you ship a rifle or shotgun to an FFL via. USPS, how do you address the package if the FFL is something like " JOE'S GUN SHOP " USPS regs. state that you are not to mark that it is a firearm in the package, but it seems to me that from the size, shape, and weight of the package and with a gun shop address, it would be a dead give away that it was a gun.
UPS will not accept any firearm from a non-FFL. I went all the way to the shipping manager at the UPS home office and she told me they would not accept my firearms packages.
Comments please
Not so. UPS will not accept a firearm from a non - FFL (and maybe not even from an FFL) at their stores, you need to go to a service center, as in where people pick up their "we left a note when you were away" deliveries and where the trucks are loaded and unloaded. I've done this many times out of the San Fran service center. Items were declared and insured as firearms.
My FFL is in the name Nunn's Guns. Smart people ship to Nunn's or David Nunn, and not Nunn's Guns. Had I been thinking clearly when I settled on a business name, I would have chosen something that has nothing to do with the word "gun," and which would give no clue as to what business was being conducted. Something like "Owl Farm Enterprises."
They DO accept shipment from non-FFL folks. And FWIW, if the addressee has GUN in its name, I change it. C3's Guns and ammo became C3's G&A, or just C3's.
dfletcher is correct about using a "hub". You have a computer; check the UPS website & find their "tariff". Print the pages concerning shipment of firearms, & take it with you to the hub. Some folks have found it easiest to note "firearm for repair", as some UPS employees aren't aware that the rules have changed.
Sometimes you have to phone corporate in order to re-educate the local UPS manager. She will remember you in the future, & will show you great courtesy.
Neal
He's talking USPS; United States Postal Service, not UPS; United Parcel Service.
It's been a thing as of late the the USPS will not ship ammo stating they don't have the ability to differentiate that it needs to be ground shipped.
IT IS NOT, repeat NOT, USPS policy to deny shipment of a firearm whether from FFL or not. The best thing for you to do is put it in a secure unmarked box, padded well, two day with tracking, properly insured, with no outward sign that it's a gun. If "Joes Gunshop" is the business name then do as noted and send it to the owners name. Make sure you mark that ANY employee can sign for it.