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FFL sellers......UPS firearms shipping agreement?

neatgunsneatguns Member Posts: 135 ✭✭
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Have any of you FFL dealers signed up for UPS service under the new policy? It was imposed back in July. UPS will now only ship firearms between FFL holders. The shipment must be a pick up account. No more dropping at customer counter. I have a UPS account and have just handed my shipments to the UPS driver in town , occasionally drop at hardware store that does UPS. Still do....No one has told them anything. In researching this I find the policy on UPS web site but no link to the application for the firearms shipping account. I'm wondering if any of you have signed up and how you did it. The wording for the agreement mentions a $150 fee if firearm is discovered in the UPS system. They can seize the shipment and turn over to law enforcement. This supposedly happened to Brownells with ammo back in July. Has any FFL had a firearm seized or returned over violation of this policy? Any contact from UPS? The whole thing was started over the ghost gun issue and the shipping of parts kits. That's what they want to prevent. I'm using USPS now. They cost more. At least $10-20 higher than UPS rates.

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  • forgemonkeyforgemonkey Member Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭✭

    "This supposedly happened to Brownells with ammo back in July."

    Just shipped 1000 rounds of ammo, two weeks ago ,,,,, in/out of UPS in less than 10 minutes. No FFL documentation required.

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  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,002 ✭✭✭✭

    I got pretty frustrated with USPS a few years ago and started calling UPS and Fed Ex to get an account manager involved with our shipping. UPS never got back with me, but FedEx sent someone over to us. We have an account, they are competitive rates to USPS when you ship enough items. So far I haven't had anything too crazy happen....a couple small damages that they still haven't paid, but nothing crushed or broken in half like USPS had done. Just having a person to contact means everything to me. He brought us Chikfila one day.


    There are requirements you have to meet, shipping the handguns three day express instead of overnight is nice when you have an account. I'm not giving UPS anything since they didn't care enough to call me back.

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  • hoosierhoosier Member Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭✭

    Sent the Paper work last Monday October 5th,, message that it was received

    Just a form saying I sell Firearm and Parts. And had to include a copy FFL and State License, and . Will have to have separate accounts for Firearms and another for Parts. And still have my 30 year old account for all other stuff.

    Have not hear back yet, May be a while?

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