Originally Posted by Melvin
Originally Posted by Bricktop
Originally Posted by Freedumb1
Originally Posted by Ngrumba
Hey Hogbuster-

I'm a manager with the USPS. I'd like to help you out. Please check your PM.

Jeff


Ngrumba,

What is the real policy? Straight from a USPS Manager ?

What I have found is no hastle when I ship from my Post Office in Sioux City, IA, the Morningside branch.

But my brother in Bondurant IA gets the "We can't ship guns" runaround from his local Post Office.

Inform us.

Thanks,

F1
You could answer that question for yourself if you took the time to look it up on the USPS' website. It's pretty well spelled out in plain English.

http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm300/601.htm#wp1099754

"11.3 Rifles and Shotguns
Although unloaded rifles and shotguns not precluded by 11.1.1e and 11.1.2 are mailable, mailers must comply with the Gun Control Act of 1968, Public Law 90-618, 18 USC 921, et seq., and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, 27 CFR 178, as well as state and local laws. The mailer may be required by the USPS to establish, by opening the parcel or by written certification, that the gun is unloaded and not precluded by 11.1.1e.

11.4 Legal Opinions on Mailing Firearms
Postmasters are not authorized to give opinions on the legality of any shipment of rifles or shotguns. Contact the nearest office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for further advice."
For one thing, sometimes it takes a while for websites to be updated! When I was turned down trying to ship a rifle recently, he said it was recently decided that the USPS would not ship rifles, shotguns from private citizens. I had only recently shipped a shotgun from this same P. O. I had a copy of the regs from the website, and called him on it. He made a phone call(to who knows where?!) and they confirmed the rule change.
So, what is a person to do??
Melvin
Uh, call the postal inspector's office. Your local post office is feeding you a line of crap in the form of their personal beliefs. (Website update my ass. They have the exact same damned domestic mail manual in the post office.) I've been through this and met the same ignorant intolerance. The postal inspector's office put an end to it for me.

You and your local post office need to pay particularly close attention to this item:

"Postmasters are not authorized to give opinions on the legality of any shipment of rifles or shotguns."

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.

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