Shipping bullets in USPS Flat Rate Padded Envelop?

[Jim Watson]

See my post under Picayune. I got in some name brand bullets very poorly packed. Only a little butcher paper which did nothing to keep the bullet boxes from sliding around inside the flat rate boxes and trying to escape. Both flat rate boxes were split and one bullet box single layer of thin tape broken. Only lost two or three bullets, which was mostly luck and a considerate postman who put the split flat rate boxes in a sturdy post office tub.

 

[edwardware]

Edwardare did you actually go down the chart to the letter "L" in the HAZ MAT table and look at the 20 listings for lead.

Yes. That's why I know what it says, and what it does not say. There are no listing for lead; there are several for various lead compounds, all of which are very substantially different from lead.

USPS isn't going test the lead. They will say this looks like lead, now we demand you supply all information proving what you are shipping.

While USPS's ignorance of their regulations is a fact of life, that ignorance does not change what the regulation actually says.

When you said:

The Post Office has restrictions on shipping lead. Their max., I believe, is an ounce.

you were wrong. That any given employee might join you in your error doesn't make it so.

Your statement also fails as an appeal to common practice, since the mail order reloading supplies industry thrives primarily on USPS Flat Rate services.

And for funsies, here's one of 5 pallets of bullets that RMR shipped yesterday, going right up to the USPS truck!

 

[Cannibul]

Comes down to how much effort you want to put into arguing the point if they disagree. Especially if it's the local postmaster who is the one disagreeing.

I've been there before. Sometimes it's simpler just to go to another PO.

Take the time to educate them. It helps the next guy.

Besides it fun to watch them try and justify their ignorance when the DMM is right there. You can also ask for their bosses phone number and call their boss. They really hate that.