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Shipping Ammo
TheBrassMan
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Okay I read the sticky on it. From what I get from it and what I have been told over the years,
shipping live ammo via the USPS is illegal.
Then my question is; if it is illegal then how are the big sellers on the auction side
getting away with shipping ammo via USPS?
They state they ship USPS and the shipping price they are giving is for Priority Mail.
I know because I know what UPS charges and there is no way I can charge $6 - $7 less to match their shipping price
on the same ammo via UPS.
I now understand why we do not sell as much ammo even though our price for the auction is within line with the rest.
Our shipping cost kills it because we ship within the law.
shipping live ammo via the USPS is illegal.
Then my question is; if it is illegal then how are the big sellers on the auction side
getting away with shipping ammo via USPS?
They state they ship USPS and the shipping price they are giving is for Priority Mail.
I know because I know what UPS charges and there is no way I can charge $6 - $7 less to match their shipping price
on the same ammo via UPS.
I now understand why we do not sell as much ammo even though our price for the auction is within line with the rest.
Our shipping cost kills it because we ship within the law.
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Thanks,
Mike
Thanks,
Thanks for the help.
Don W.
Whats involved shipping a sealed spam can of ammo using UPS ?
Do you have to tell them whats in the box, or just ship it and shut up?
I called the ups store today and got the run around-evil ammo lecture.
Here is what a package of Avery full sheet label media looks like, from Office Depot:
Just have your carton well packed and tight with labels attached, and when you go to the computer to make a shipping label at the UPS terminal, write in "consumer" when it asks what type of material is being shipped. When you get your UPS SHIPPING LABEL FINISHED, STICK IT ON YOUR PACKAGE AND TAKE IT TO THE SCALES AND SAY "SHIP IT GROUND" No other action is necessary. They'll weigh it, scan your UPS label and ask you for the money. Pay and you're done.
Forget about FEDEX, and DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT MAILING AMMO USPS!
WordBorn!!
Shipping is a RIP-OFF!!! USPS won't take it, UPS wants it by contracted businesses only, at $40 per parcel, and Fed-Ex wants $30 per parcel.
Any other options for shipping????....this is a joke!!!
Thanks!!!
I live in a small Rocky Mtn. community. I called our single local UPS and FedEx offices-you'd think I wanted to ship a hundred lbs. of C4 on Air Force One. I check ups/fedex.coms. The hazardous materials pages are absurd and endless. I have to be a certified hazardous materials contract shipper with a pick-up account to even call them. Has it truly become easier to ship an arm than a small quantity of ammo?
I see ammo for sale on this and other arms sites-often small quantities for prices in the teens by non-FFL's. What do these guys do? What's the average Joe Citizen to do other than 'inadvertantly mistate' the package contents?
Thanks for any help.
thanks for any help Dan
Can ammo be shipped in same box with a pistol??
The USPS specifically states in several places on their website that you may NOT ship ammunition through their offices.
I'm sure that they also specify the punishment somewhere as well...
Best.
Anyone that wants to play with it should remember- the Postal Inspection Service has the highest conviction rate of any Federal LEO.
If you buy more then one item, not the same item, he does not combine shipping, but still ships in the same box.
So if you buy one box of this ammo and one box of that ammo he charges you $8.95 for each.
That means he charges you $17.90. That covers his UPS cost.
Was just reading through his feedback.
He is charging $8.95 for shipping small items via USPS Priority Mail.
Small Flat Rate is $6.80.
So he is also covering UPS costs by charging $2.15 more. Yes there is a cost incurred when shipping,
but not $2.15 worth.
Okay I shouldn't be ranting.
I know what the fines are for shipping hazardous materials via the USPS. Have read about them
and they do have it clearly posted in the local Post Office.
What DOES happen is that the large dealers have contracts with UPS &/or FedEx (both "common carriers") to ship anything, including guns & ammo, at rates far below what anyone else pays. Their volume, & what they pay each year, gives them lots of leverage. No "Next Day Air required", no "hazmat" fees, no "rural delivery fee", no "excess weight" charge; individuals & small businesses just can't compete with that.
Sorry, there's nothing we can do about it.
Neal
goods stores. They shipped it UPS part of the way then UPS dropped it
off at the post office and the local mail man delivered it.
Several months ago I ordered some ammo from one of the "big" sporting
goods stores. They shipped it UPS part of the way then UPS dropped it
off at the post office and the local mail man delivered it.
That method would protect the passenger aircraft. It would go by common carrier truck and aircraft to the local PO. From there, by USPS mail truck to the house.