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seller w/ only a PO box/no address
redfishbob
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Anybody dealt w/ a seller who says he's an FFL but only gives a PO box?It sounds a little shady to me.Don't ffl's have to have a street address to operate?
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That is shady[8]
+1
I have lived and have run a part-time gun shop in two locations where I had to use a post office box to get mail, and had no physical address.
Not necessarily shady. His shop may have a physical address but not be on a mail route. It happens in very small towns and rural areas.
I have lived and have run a part-time gun shop in two locations where I had to use a post office box to get mail, and had no physical address.
Do you mean that you had a physical address.. but no U.S. mail service to it...Or are you saying that there were No address at all...I have lived in the country here in Utah. It did have an address, but no mail service. so I had to have a P.O box to get USPS, BUT Fed-X and UPS delivered to my address, If I gave that instead of my P.O. box#... Along with a way that the county Fire and Sheriff Dept. could locate it, Without telling them to turn at the y in the road were the three legged dog sits most of the time
I'm not doubting, just wondering if I miss understood you or If your part of the country is different...That there was No physical address
And if you didn't have an Address how did you get the utilities hooked up and fix when needed
By the way, I live where there is a lot off Mormons, They ALWAYS give directions from a Ward...That's what they call the LDS church that is located nearest to them....When they start giving me directions from a Ward...I just ask them where is it from the liquor store[:D][:D][:D]
I have actually lived in a place that had no physical address. It was at the end of a private road, extending from the end of a logging road, 3 miles from the nearest public-maintained road. It was remote. What with 911 mapping, it probably has an address now, but not in the mid 1970s.
Another place I lived could have had a physical address, but that made no difference, since there was no mail delivery there.
Any chance the dealer is in Elma? If so, Andy is 1st rate. I use him as much as I can and recommend him to every who is looking for anyting firearm related.
Andy has a store down town. There is another feller I think that lives up Cloqullaum(sp?)Creek out of Elma. If one pulls up transfer dealers in this area there is another guy besides East County Guns anyway.
Another place I lived could have had a physical address, but that made no difference, since there was no mail delivery there."
I live on a street that had several houses with physical addresses but no mail delivery for years. The local USPS would not deliver mail because of safety reasons. The safety reason was because the road was not paved. After the road was paved the USPS allowed mail boxes and mail delivery but still will not deliver packages because my "driveway" is not paved. Actually they may have something with those rules. My driveway has caught three of the mainstreem delivery trucks in the last few years. One was a UPS truck the second I don't remember if it was a DSL or Fed ex truck and the last one was just last week. That was a Fed Ex truck. I had a appointment so I could't help him dig out so I gave him a can of Kerns Nectar, a shovel and some wood blocks. When I came home he was still there. He gave up and called a tow truck driver.
"When the Postal Service determines not to provide carrier delivery to a customer's physical address or business location that constitutes a potential carrier delivery point, as defined by the Postal Service, that customer becomes eligible for one Post Office box at the Group E fee, subject to the regulations outlined in DMM 508.4.6. For more information on Fee Group E eligibility, see DMM 508.4.6.2-3."
Free P.O. Box ? They won't tell you, if you don't ask.
Not necessarily shady. His shop may have a physical address but not be on a mail route. It happens in very small towns and rural areas.
I have lived and have run a part-time gun shop in two locations where I had to use a post office box to get mail, and had no physical address.
True, I deliver in Wv where there is no 911 address system, I deal with this everyday. People just make up their own addresses most of the time.
Roy sold his entire collection over on Gunboards. He sold about 700 high quality military surplus rifles, his daughter needed some expensive surgery.
He only had a PO Box and he was as ethical as could be.
I got 4 of his rifles, thank you Rifles Roy.
Just for info. From Postal Regulations.
"When the Postal Service determines not to provide carrier delivery to a customer's physical address or business location that constitutes a potential carrier delivery point, as defined by the Postal Service, that customer becomes eligible for one Post Office box at the Group E fee, subject to the regulations outlined in DMM 508.4.6. For more information on Fee Group E eligibility, see DMM 508.4.6.2-3."
Free P.O. Box ?
There are a few places around me where they will not deliver,
and YES the P.O. box is FREE.
what they call box #'s. For instance, my "box" is 1445. It is an actual
mail box, but is ?mi. away from the house and in sight of anyone that
can watch it. I also have a P.O. box, so anything that comes USPS
they just hold at the post office...but I have the advantage of having
of being able to use something other than a P.O. box as an address as
that sometimes just isn't acceptable.
UPS, Fedex, etc. will deliver here... sometimes, but if the creeks are
up, the roads are bad, or if they're just running short on time..they're
just as apt to leave our pkg at the P.O. for us to pick up.lol
Actually I never give our P.O. box as an address, but that's where we
always pick it up.
quote:Originally posted by nunn
Not necessarily shady. His shop may have a physical address but not be on a mail route. It happens in very small towns and rural areas.
I have lived and have run a part-time gun shop in two locations where I had to use a post office box to get mail, and had no physical address.
True, I deliver in Wv where there is no 911 address system, I deal with this everyday. People just make up their own addresses most of the time.
Yep. "Third house on left up Gas Line Hollow". Look for the yellow ATV in the yard. Mind the dog!
Out of the town of 200 there are only about 4 of us with mail delivery the rest have PO Boxes.
quote:Do you mean that you had a physical address.. but no U.S. mail service to it...Or are you saying that there were No address at all...
I have actually lived in a place that had no physical address. It was at the end of a private road, extending from the end of a logging road, 3 miles from the nearest public-maintained road. It was remote. What with 911 mapping, it probably has an address now, but not in the mid 1970s.
Another place I lived could have had a physical address, but that made no difference, since there was no mail delivery there.
Thanks nunn, wasn't trying to be a smart *, just didn't know if it was different there than here... Well maybe just a little smart azzy