I want to speak up for USPS employees! They have a bzillion regulations to keep up with and we certainly can't expect to know them all.
A year or so ago they received a directive not to mail any handguns unless the sender was an FFL licensee and there was a lot of confusion because it wasn't clear that the directive didn't include long guns.
Please be patient with them folks.
It's a very hard thankless job and can get worse fast when one of use cranky gun nuts get's his dander up...
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