It shouldn’t require packing reminiscent of delivering nuclear materials to get a package safely thru a common carrier.
It shouldn't but it does.
Plan accordingly.
95% of the time, I can’t. That’s just the truth. You think Roy has been the victim only because he didn’t make the shippers pack guns right? No.
A guy can ask, but in the end almost every seller is going to ship the guns the way they’ve always shipped guns. You’re not going to get Joe Schmoe in a gun or pawn shop to spend 90 minutes constructing a safe shipping continue.