Expanded Delivery Options

Mac Cat · 10-09-2020, 06:20 PM

I get delivered from unmarked and rented trucks now, not from the branded store trucks and vans. For a while, Amazon was using people in personal cars to fill in.

Today I got a delivery from a commercial Trucking company (Hunt) doing local work for a big box store.

We have an HOA rule the prohibits home businesses because 50 years ago, people feared a home business would have lots of clients cars, trucks and deliveries. Today, almost every other house in the neighborhood is getting something delivered.

I use a private post office - they seem more interested in being helpful.

Clustered Mail boxes are becoming targets for thieves more often now, even in the rural areas. And once your mail box is broken, you usually have to pickup mail at the post office. They take years to fix broken mail boxes and the rarely purées the mailbox bandits. If you still have mail brought to your house, you're very lucky.

G.T. · 10-09-2020, 08:39 PM

To me, there are only three options? The first is FedEx which is hard for me, as I would only use them to send guns, and the satellite locations won't send guns or ammo in the Phoenix area. So, you need to go to a hub location, and then jump thru the necessary hoops, and I'm assuming pay a fairly steep fee.
The second is UPS, still have to go to the hub location, then it's an overnight fee, which the last time was $90.00 bucks, and it arrived ten days later! They really suck, in just about every respect!
The third option and by far the best, is to go to an FFL dealer, pay the $20.00 transfer / shipping fee, and the USPS postage, $8.00 Priority flat rate and be reasonably sure it will arrive on time! I would rather pay the dealer to keep him alive, then toss the money down a rat hole with some company that doesn't even like us????

..... Of all the gun laws, I wish they would ease restrictions on shipping first!.... Best to all, til....lat'r....GT...

sheepherder · 10-09-2020, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by G.T.

.. Of all the gun laws, I wish they would ease restrictions on shipping first!...

Here's something I don't understand. I had a S&W Model 15 that needed work; I contacted S&W, got their instructions to send it in to the factory for repair. They told me to mail it direct, no FFL needed, no USPS notification, just include their form. I did. They mailed it back directly to me, again no FFL. And no special marking.

No checking of state permit, no NICS, no FFL. Either way. No clerk ever asked me what it was (addressee was 'cloaked').

WTF???

Fla.Mallard · 10-09-2020, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by sheepherder

Here's something I don't understand. I had a S&W Model 15 that needed work; I contacted S&W, got their instructions to send it in to the factory for repair. They told me to mail it direct, no FFL needed, no USPS notification, just include their form. I did. They mailed it back directly to me, again no FFL. And no special marking.

No checking of state permit, no NICS, no FFL. Either way. No clerk ever asked me what it was (addressee was 'cloaked').

WTF???

You can send your gun that needs repair to a gunsmith or the factory with no FFL involved .. even through USPS. It's a law. However, if you get caught abusing the law, mucho dinero and bad trouble with los federales.

10-09-2020, 08:39 PM	#2
G.T. Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Chandler Arizona Posts: 3,541 Thanks: 1,342 Thanked 3,742 Times in 1,020 Posts	sending stuff! To me, there are only three options? The first is FedEx which is hard for me, as I would only use them to send guns, and the satellite locations won't send guns or ammo in the Phoenix area. So, you need to go to a hub location, and then jump thru the necessary hoops, and I'm assuming pay a fairly steep fee. The second is UPS, still have to go to the hub location, then it's an overnight fee, which the last time was $90.00 bucks, and it arrived ten days later! They really suck, in just about every respect! The third option and by far the best, is to go to an FFL dealer, pay the $20.00 transfer / shipping fee, and the USPS postage, $8.00 Priority flat rate and be reasonably sure it will arrive on time! I would rather pay the dealer to keep him alive, then toss the money down a rat hole with some company that doesn't even like us???? ..... Of all the gun laws, I wish they would ease restrictions on shipping first!.... Best to all, til....lat'r....GT...

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10-09-2020, 06:20 PM	#1
Mac Cat Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 770 Thanks: 2,191 Thanked 657 Times in 351 Posts	I get delivered from unmarked and rented trucks now, not from the branded store trucks and vans. For a while, Amazon was using people in personal cars to fill in. Today I got a delivery from a commercial Trucking company (Hunt) doing local work for a big box store. We have an HOA rule the prohibits home businesses because 50 years ago, people feared a home business would have lots of clients cars, trucks and deliveries. Today, almost every other house in the neighborhood is getting something delivered. I use a private post office - they seem more interested in being helpful. Clustered Mail boxes are becoming targets for thieves more often now, even in the rural areas. And once your mail box is broken, you usually have to pickup mail at the post office. They take years to fix broken mail boxes and the rarely purées the mailbox bandits. If you still have mail brought to your house, you're very lucky.