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What is everyone seeing as an average shipping cost for a rifle or barreled action ? I sent a barreled action to Kampfeld’s for fluting last week and it was almost 60.00. It was in a stock box inside another outer box. USPS wanted 108.00 due to the length of the box.

If you tell them you want USPS Ground Advantage I'd guess it would be a 1/3 of the 108 bucks. AKWolverine tipped me off to that. I sent a 77/22 a few weeks back and it was 20 bucks and I got charged extra since it was over 31". They don't offer up the Ground Advantage during checkout but if you ask them they seem to pull it up.

I went to the FedEx store a couple days ago. They said if they shipped my rifle they would be fined $150,000. I had been shipping there for years. Not sure where they got their information.
I went to the USPS. a friend works there. He was quite concerned about the regulations. Again, I’ve shipped there before. But in the past they had paperwork for me to ship. He looked up the regulation.
“WELL, I’L BE!” Was what he said.
I guess we can ship a rifle without any paperwork or other issues.

Where do these guys come up with their crazy ideas?

Firearms are scary I guess ..

Tip #2, if you do it at home, you get reduced commercial rates.

WT, how do you go about that?

Thanks in advance for the intel.

Just create an account on USPS then use Click-N-Ship to create and print the label at home. If it asks if you want to use enhanced Click-N-Ship or the older version, pick enhanced. The older one doesn't give reduced rates and is supposedly going away but I still have to pick between the two when I start to create a label.

https://www.usps.com/ship/online-shipping.htm

Thank you. I'll have to give that a shot. Appreciate the heads up.

They themselves are ignorant, even though they should know the shipping laws. You'll also run into liberals that hate guns, so they will lie to you. Just print out a shipping label from home, using the enhanced click and ship, so you can get the commercial discount. Easy peasy..

USPS has crazy rates for extended length on packages.
I shipped a Tikka stock a couple of weeks ago. They told me there would be an additional cost because of the length, (+ 30"). I removed the recoil pad, trimmed the box, repacked. It cut $8.00 off the shipping cost.

I ended up shipping USPS, I was surprised as the cost was low. But I added $1,500 insurance which more than doubled the cost.

Why would you tell them what's in the box?

Fedex office is not Fedex. They cannot pack or label firearm shipments but do accept pre-labeled firearm shipments from an online account.
UPS store can not accept any firearm shipments but the UPS hubs will ship pre-labeled packages.

Tag.

Insurance?

Both the FedEx people and the usps guy asked. I didn’t want to lie, who knows? That’s probably a felony at any rate.

Put it in a hard case. Gorilla tape the dog pizz out of it, slap a label on it, and kiss it goodbye!

I use USPS for shipping gun parts, scopes, stocks, etc. When shipping a rifle or shotgun, I buy a UPS shipping label with insurance from Ship my gun on line. Print it out, put it on the box, and drop it off at my local UPS Hub. No questions asked. Fast and easy, never had a problem.

It has always been the least expensive way to ship and insure a firearm for me.

Add it and never been asked.

I'd read one time that you could ship your rifle to yourself without paper work but to a different name it had to go to a dealer and paper work needed done. Sound's like that has changed!