so a couple months ago FedEx told me they no longer ship firearms for individuals, then today UPS told me they no longer ship firearms for individuals as of Monday the 29th August even though you are shipping to a FFL dealer, what has the world come too?
Individuals can't ship firearms?
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hvac;141553889 what has the world come too?[/QUOTE said:Not sure what it has come too but it has gone too the dogs.Larry
riverrat38
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I wonder if that includes firearms being returned to the manufacture for warranty work with a shipping label? And, how about return shipping to our homes? I just had to be there to sign.
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Just checked the UPS website and this appears true. Not surprising given FedEx's decision. Wonder what might be behind the scenes driving this change…
Wonder what will happen with shipmygun. I thought about using them for some modest priced guns...i hate paying $50 for an fffl to ship a $350 gun..
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I'm fairly certain that this policy has been in place for a while, they just weren't always following it with any consistency.
The short version; You must have an FFL and an approved Service Agreement contract with UPS. FFL's still have the option of sending you a Return Service label, but shipping that's initiated by an individual that's not an FFL is a no-go.
How To Ship Firearms | UPS - United States
The short version; You must have an FFL and an approved Service Agreement contract with UPS. FFL's still have the option of sending you a Return Service label, but shipping that's initiated by an individual that's not an FFL is a no-go.
How To Ship Firearms | UPS - United States
I agree, I don't think this is new, there might be an update but it didn't suddenly just happen. If you go into a UPS store with a sealed box and a firearm in it and tell them that I am 100% certain they will not ship it (perhaps barring a return label from a manufacturer or an FFL or some other "seller", like an online seller).
ICBW, BIDTS.
Side note - in the early 1970s I received two .25 ACP pistols in the mail, packed in a shoe box with some paper around them, and tied with a string! It was probably a felony to have shipped them to me that way and I lived in NYC at the time and it was a felony for me to own them. So I locked them in a bank's safe deposit vault and would visit them occasionally. Then, just a few years later, I brought them to Texas. POOF! Felony eradicated like smoke in a breeze.
This was one - CZ Duo made in German occupied Czechoslovakia in 1944:
The other was a Walther Model 1 that I sold to a Walther collector a long time ago:
Walther Model 1
Copyright 2010-2021 by Ed Buffaloe.
The collector was in Arkansas. I seem to recollect simply mailing that gun to him then, too. Somewhere around 1990. $250.00 is all I got for it but I thought it was broken. Years later I decided I was probably wrong.
I don't do those things any longer! To quote the Man With No Name -
This was one - CZ Duo made in German occupied Czechoslovakia in 1944:
The other was a Walther Model 1 that I sold to a Walther collector a long time ago:
Walther Model 1
Copyright 2010-2021 by Ed Buffaloe.
The collector was in Arkansas. I seem to recollect simply mailing that gun to him then, too. Somewhere around 1990. $250.00 is all I got for it but I thought it was broken. Years later I decided I was probably wrong.
I don't do those things any longer! To quote the Man With No Name -
Handgun or long arm? Shipping shotguns and rifles, especially intrastate, used to never be a problem.
Can long guns still be shipped through the USPS?
I have shipped many handguns at this UPS center box sealed and a copy of the FFL in my hand, now they state it must go through a FFL dealer no firearms will be accepted through a individual
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The USA is rapidly going to "hell in a handbasket" thanks to those who do NOT follow the lead or ways our founding fathers established.
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I got fed-UP{s} with brown during the pandemic. I have to clarify something regarding FedEx. You 'generally' can't expect to get help by their franchise facilities inside other businesses. NO FedEx Kinkos, nor MailBoxes, Etc....those type places. I have had success with an OEM's shipping label already affixed to the box. You simply hand them the box...no-questions asked.
Now, you have a gun to send off for customizing, or one you sold. Those will self-addressed, naturally. You must take it to a FedEx corporate facility. They require your I/D. They may ask what's in it, especially when you give them a declared value of more than a few hundred dollars. I have never received any push-back. Only ONCE has the nervous little Counter-Karen asked if it was 'unloaded', LOL.
Now, you have a gun to send off for customizing, or one you sold. Those will self-addressed, naturally. You must take it to a FedEx corporate facility. They require your I/D. They may ask what's in it, especially when you give them a declared value of more than a few hundred dollars. I have never received any push-back. Only ONCE has the nervous little Counter-Karen asked if it was 'unloaded', LOL.
Given the last gun that FedEx was supposed to deliver to me was sent instead to Mexico, who BTW refuses to send it back, -OR- the fact that FedEx tried to arbitrarily raise the cost on a gun I had shipped before then from the $36.35 I had paid to $64.60 after they had delivered it, I'm not sure this is really a bad thing. Both companies cannot control their employees from stealing or ineptitude and rather than try, they have just decided to give up.
Time to try Ship My Gun - for half the cost.
Time to try Ship My Gun - for half the cost.
They can't or won't control thievery. Their answer to having to pay claims for employee theft of firearms is to not ship them.
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FedEx changed their firearms shipping rules either late last year or early this year. The FedEx website tells you everything you need to know about this. I don't know about UPS. FedEx also says they don't ship ammo now, either. I do know I shipped some ammo earlier this year using UPS.
As with so many other things relating to guns, it doesn't matter how they used to do it.
As with so many other things relating to guns, it doesn't matter how they used to do it.
deadin
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Anybody know what UPS and FedEx consider a C&R license as?
The USPS doesn't recognize it as an FFL for handguns, but does for long guns.
Also, what about true antiques (not replicas in a "modern" chambering)?
The USPS doesn't recognize it as an FFL for handguns, but does for long guns.
Also, what about true antiques (not replicas in a "modern" chambering)?
And speaking of ammo, the news is full of stories like this:
Thousands of rounds of ammo have 'gone missing' during UPS shipping
In my opinion, there are no anti-gun tin foil hat black helicopter conspiracies here, this is all about rampant theft and societal decay.
Florida Guy
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I see ship my gun is a subsidiary of Bud's.
Anxious to see how they deal with this.
Anxious to see how they deal with this.
