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All I can say is you're extremely lucky it showed up at all! I've had a nice 1880's Marlin Ballard stolen last fall by USPS, and beyond losing the gun, USPS did everything possible to avoid paying my claim! Their system is setup to deny the first claim, no matter how much documentation the insurer shows. And once it's gotten to 45 days, or 3 denials, it's automatically not paid.
I had to be very careful and eventually contact (of all people!) Earl Blumenauer's office and tell them USPS was avoiding paying my claim, without mentioning what was in the package. They actually helped me fight USPS, and got my claim paid.
On another recent gun shipment, the seller sent a gorgeous old Rolling Block to me via FedEx, even though I requested UPS. That rifle got to the Troutdale FedEx depot last Monday at 2:49AM, again at 2:50AM, again at 12 midnight that night, showed out for delivery on Wed., then returned to FedEx for "security delay"?, then finally delivered Thu. around noon. So four days in town, before it got delivered, and nobody could tell me what the heck a "security delay" was?
I was just thankful it arrived unbroken, or at all! My record with FedEx is two rifles broken that were shipped in custom built wooden crates, and one stolen. UPS has stolen one also. And USPS has stolen one, and another USPS scope went missing for a year, got paid off on insurance, and arrived at my house 13 months after it was shipped, with a stamp on it saying, "undeliverable".
All the major shippers are worthless in my opinion.
I had to be very careful and eventually contact (of all people!) Earl Blumenauer's office and tell them USPS was avoiding paying my claim, without mentioning what was in the package. They actually helped me fight USPS, and got my claim paid.
On another recent gun shipment, the seller sent a gorgeous old Rolling Block to me via FedEx, even though I requested UPS. That rifle got to the Troutdale FedEx depot last Monday at 2:49AM, again at 2:50AM, again at 12 midnight that night, showed out for delivery on Wed., then returned to FedEx for "security delay"?, then finally delivered Thu. around noon. So four days in town, before it got delivered, and nobody could tell me what the heck a "security delay" was?
I was just thankful it arrived unbroken, or at all! My record with FedEx is two rifles broken that were shipped in custom built wooden crates, and one stolen. UPS has stolen one also. And USPS has stolen one, and another USPS scope went missing for a year, got paid off on insurance, and arrived at my house 13 months after it was shipped, with a stamp on it saying, "undeliverable".
All the major shippers are worthless in my opinion.