handgun shipping USPS/ FFL to FFL

[stonebuster]

Anyone have any experience having a handgun shipped to their FFL using USPS? I've purchased a revolver and the seller's FFL shipped it USPS to my FFL. I'd rather have paid the difference in cost to use Fed EX or UPS had I known. I've no tracking number and no idea how long it might take. IMO, the longer the shipping takes the better chance it disappears. It is legal for FFLs to use USPS to ship to other dealers so I don't want to debate. Just wondering how common it is and how risky it is.

 

[FlSwampRat]

Anyone have any experience having a handgun shipped to their FFL using USPS? I've purchased a revolver and the seller's FFL shipped it USPS to my FFL. I'd rather have paid the difference in cost to use Fed EX or UPS had I known. I've no tracking number and no idea how long it might take. IMO, the longer the shipping takes the better chance it disappears. It is legal for FFLs to use USPS to ship to other dealers so I don't want to debate. Just wondering how common it is and how risky it is.

We use USPS all the time to ship guns, never had much of any kind of problem.

Have to take the gun into the PO to ship with their little form filled out and all those little requirements to meet the legal issues. Always smile when I walk past the NO GUNS ALLOWED signs and plop my box on the counter and announce "It's a gun".
But then I'm easily amused.

 

[George Dickel]

Anyone have any experience having a handgun shipped to their FFL using USPS? I've purchased a revolver and the seller's FFL shipped it USPS to my FFL. I'd rather have paid the difference in cost to use Fed EX or UPS had I known. I've no tracking number and no idea how long it might take. IMO, the longer the shipping takes the better chance it disappears. It is legal for FFLs to use USPS to ship to other dealers so I don't want to debate. Just wondering how common it is and how risky it is.

Contact the seller and have him/her get it from the FFL that shipped the pistol. USPS provides tracking numbers to the individual doing the shipping.

 

[dogtown tom]

Anyone have any experience having a handgun shipped to their FFL using USPS?

I ship handguns exclusively USPS Priority Mail, almost always in a Flat Rate box. It's less than half the cost of UPS Next Day or FedEx Overnight. Usually 2-3 days from me to the receiving dealer.

I've purchased a revolver and the seller's FFL shipped it USPS to my FFL. I'd rather have paid the difference in cost to use Fed EX or UPS had I known. I've no tracking number and no idea how long it might take. IMO, the longer the shipping takes the better chance it disappears.

You don't need a tracking number, it's not coming to you, but to your dealer. Tracking is for the benefit of the shipper to confirm the package was delivered. Nothing more annoying than people calling, texting, emailing telling me what I already know...the package has arrived. Holding a box in my hands is all the delivery confirmation the recipient needs.

It is legal for FFLs to use USPS to ship to other dealers so I don't want to debate. Just wondering how common it is and how risky it is.

Legal of course. Read the sticky in the legal subforum on how to ship firearms.
Common as in over half the handguns I receive are shipped in a USPS box.

 

[stonebuster]

Thanks for the answer to my question posted because I haven't done this interstate transfer process before. BTW, I'm not annoying anybody, I think.