Help with USPS Gun Shipping Quick!!!!

[VaTrooper]

I know that you can ship black powder guns through USPS but there is a new woman there that doesn't know and the "Postmaster" doesn't either. Can someone post the link to it on there site so I can print it and get this thing mailed. Thanks a lot!!!

[Tom Scoufalos]

This is just a quick, knee-jerk reply and NOT intended to be sarcastic in any way, but are there other post offices convenient to you that you could run it to? I've been fortunate to never have had any problems, but if it ever did happen...and it were practicable to do... I've always thought that I'd just run it to a different one. That said, I am fortunate to live and work near 5 post offices in different municipalities.

'Course, who knows, maybe that would just get me on Newmann's blacklist, but I wouldn't be above tryin' it.

Just a quick thought!

[Marc]

I know that you can ship black powder guns through USPS but there is a new woman there that doesn't know and the "Postmaster" doesn't either. Can someone post the link to it on there site so I can print it and get this thing mailed. Thanks a lot!!!

Tell the postal worker or Postmaster to check "USPS Handbook HBK IS-135, Firearms" covers all the rules for shipping about 94 pages and published by the USPS.

[Craig L Barry]

Also, if asked describe them as disassociated replica antique musket parts in a non-firing state. That will be true if you remove the cone.

[Curt-Heinrich Schmidt]

Hallo!

And why some lads and vendors remove the lock.

I would suspect, that some tellers and local postmasters, take the part of their speech...

"Is there anything hazardous..." as being red-flagged by "firearms" as well as "non firearms."

(The same thing happens at some UPS centers as well... where the actual company policy and rules are either not known or willfully ignored for personal agendae).

CHS

[Jim Mayo]

I have had to ship them from a "distribution center" but it is because the local centers do not know the rules. Take it apart and send it as a hockey stick with a metal edge.

[Craig L Barry]

Yeah there must be something up because I just got an Enfield shipped to me in two separate packages because that is the only way the shipper (I think it was USPS) would handle it. Could be obliquely related to some tightening of internal regulations due to the perception of an increased terrorism risk, but who knows? First time that one has happened so far...I did get a round of flak at Xmas shipping one out via USPS in an Armi Sport box, but the non-firing disassociated parts language assuaged their concerns. That northern part of Virginia where Marse Shifflett is located, based on its proximity to DC, would be among the first to put any new shipping procedure red tape in place, too. "Orange" County VA is Fredericksburg, right?

[Curt-Heinrich Schmidt]

Hallo!

I have not looked it up to see if it is a USPS rule or policy (but assume so)...
But the printed poster literature in my city PO shows/says that company logo and other printing on reused boxes has to be removed or blacked out.

I have been at the PO when they refused to acccept reused boxes that contianed "company logo" so I am keen to black it out.

Yes, now that the Underwear Bomber has followed in the tradition of the Shoe Bomber, who knows what "internal" changes there are or what formal changes will be coming.

CHS
We may to wear our underwear on the outside of our clothes Mess

[doughboy]

Is much easier to deal with. Just declare what it is and you will have no problem.
Christopher Wilson

[skamikaze]

Ship it FedEx Ground. Take it to FedEx Office (formerly FedEx Kinkos) and ship it there, they know the rules and are more than happy to help you pack it.

Or, you could set up and account with FedEx and schedule a pickup.

[Harold Adams]

Yes, I can second that. I have shipped all of my muskets that way. There were no problems whatsoever. Fed Ex is the way to go.
I did have a problem with UPS here locally in Bradenton, and have nothing good to say about them. It seems the UPS clerk has some kind of personal agenda, from the dirty look I recieved when I told her I was shipping a blackpowder firearm.
I work for the USPS as a mailhandler, and can honestly tell you, I am quite confused by their policies on shipping firearms and such. I guess it goes by region and "their" own "interpretation of the regs."

Kindest Regards;

[VaTrooper]

I was in a hurry and it had to be USPS. I ended up finding it in their Domestic Mail Manual. But it addition to having the paperwork from their website they called another P.O. and ended up accepting it after they okayed it. After they got a copy of my drivers license in case I lying about what type of firearm was in the box.

[josie wales]

I know that you can ship black powder guns through USPS but there is a new woman there that doesn't know and the "Postmaster" doesn't either. Can someone post the link to it on there site so I can print it and get this thing mailed. Thanks a lot!!!
William, Thanks....received both pieces....better than advertized....quality merchandise and faithful trooper, JW

[VaTrooper]

No problem Joe.

[Artyman]

I shipped the last one I mailed through the Postal Service and had no problems other than finding a parking place. Unless package size regs have changed since then I'd go there.

Harry