BringHomeTheBacon
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I sent out my sold Smith 686 PLUS to a chap's FFL in Hamburg, New York today in SW Oklahoma. I had a prepaid label from ShipMyGun.com operated under Budsgunshop.com. It was the 2nd Day Air class. It was $49 and change!! Rather steep for a 3.75 pound package. I had to go to the UPS Hub and it is only open from 3-7 PM, M-F. The guy said that he was trained not to accept a shipment for a handgun 2nd Day but only Overnight. I told him who the third party was that sold me the label. He then got on the telephone to call some dude at the "help center" and supposedly that guy OK'ed the 2nd day shipment. None of these carriers will take handguns ground rates, only long guns. The handgun market has to get punished by these high-price express air rates because of corporate policy, not federal law. The shipping biz must be scared to deal with handguns for some reason. They have to have some excuse to jack customers with these high handgun rates.
Except to pump money out of people, why else do they want want you to use the expensive speedy rates for handguns? FedEx operates the same way and only an FFL can even ship a handgun from a post office. People are all weird about handguns. FedEx and UPS both sock it to you on handguns. They really socked it to my buyer who paid the shipping, not I. I had to deal with the hassle burning up my time.
I did finally get the handgun shipped off to my GB buyer but this hassle added a 20 minute delay and I was the first customer in the door at 3 PM sharp. Do I by law even have to declare a handgun in a package to a carrier?
Except to pump money out of people, why else do they want want you to use the expensive speedy rates for handguns? FedEx operates the same way and only an FFL can even ship a handgun from a post office. People are all weird about handguns. FedEx and UPS both sock it to you on handguns. They really socked it to my buyer who paid the shipping, not I. I had to deal with the hassle burning up my time.
I did finally get the handgun shipped off to my GB buyer but this hassle added a 20 minute delay and I was the first customer in the door at 3 PM sharp. Do I by law even have to declare a handgun in a package to a carrier?
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