Couldn't ship a scope UPS?

[flashpan]

Much as I dislike our inefficient USPS...I take full advantage of the priority box shipping.
I bring home a supply of free boxes in all sizes. Then pack whatever I want (legal stuff) in the smallest box it will fit....print the label at home...schedule a pick up on line for my normal mail carrier and put it in the mail box or porch. Puff ... its gone. No trips to a shipping site, no BS questions. Shipped a scope yesterday off the f porch. Hope this helps

 

[Cavedweller]

Only reason he brought it there was he didn't have the packaging at home.

Much as I dislike our inefficient USPS...I take full advantage of the priority box shipping.
I bring home a supply of free boxes in all sizes.

Yes. I haven't seen too many scopes that won't fit in a USPS flat rate box. Probably cheaper than UPS anyway. Some crumpled newspaper or shopping bags as cushion and you're good to go.

 

[flashpan]

I use UPS to ship guns mostly, but that is at the customer service centers only....they do a nice job. The local UPS franchises...I stay clear of...takes forever, ask to many question, charge too much. but then that's JMHO from experience.

 

[MfnLeadFarmer]

Much as I dislike our inefficient USPS...I take full advantage of the priority box shipping.
I bring home a supply of free boxes in all sizes. Then pack whatever I want (legal stuff) in the smallest box it will fit....print the label at home...schedule a pick up on line for my normal mail carrier and put it in the mail box or porch. Puff ... its gone. No trips to a shipping site, no BS questions. Shipped a scope yesterday off the f porch. Hope this helps

You can have those same free boxes delivered to your house for free as well.

 

[MfnLeadFarmer]

"Safety equipment" always works.

Haha I always say "machine parts".

 

[Wombat of Doom]

Much as I dislike our inefficient USPS...I take full advantage of the priority box shipping.
I bring home a supply of free boxes in all sizes. Then pack whatever I want (legal stuff) in the smallest box it will fit....print the label at home...schedule a pick up on line for my normal mail carrier and put it in the mail box or porch. Puff ... its gone. No trips to a shipping site, no BS questions. Shipped a scope yesterday off the f porch. Hope this helps

I have gotten anvils in priority flat rate boxes. And most recently 2 thousand .44 bullets. (Not loaded ammunition, just bullets) I like my postman so I give him a heads up when I ordered something deceptively small and heavy via USPS. It goes a long way to give the heads up.

 

[TTSX]

Considering I'm having UPS deliver a scope later today, I'm gonna call BS

 

[MfnLeadFarmer]

10 years ago I had a Saiga shotgun with obscured gas ports (par for the course) and needed warranty work. Izmash contracted Cadiz in OH to do the work: they also sent me a label for UPS. Packed it up in a case and took it to a UPS store. Person behind the counter swore up and down they couldn't send guns even to an FFL.

That's when I educated myself and swore off storefront locations. Now I stick to customer service centers, drivers in trucks, or scheduled pickups.

 

[doobee8]

Considering I'm having UPS deliver a scope later today, I'm gonna call BS

Have you ever been to a UPS store and tried to openly ship anything gun related? Not delivery of gun related items but actually shipping something.

 

[TTSX]

Imagine paying an unmotivated young person minimum wage and expecting them to actually do their job....

 

[TTSX]

Have you ever been to a UPS store and tried to openly ship anything gun related? Not delivery of gun related items but actually shipping something.

Yes

 

[doobee8]

Imagine paying an unmotivated young person minimum wage and expecting them to actually do their job....

So I take it you've not had the pleasure? I stopped going there in the late 90's after one incident.

 

[pharmseller]

To be clear, was the facility a UPS Store, like at a strip mall, and not a UPS facility? The UPS Store is a franchise with weird rules. UPS picks up packages from The UPS Store.



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[Nocaster]

Go to FedEx. Open an account and card, feel very welcome at every single one of them, AND you get a discount on shipping. They don't even freak out about anything. Very professional.

Lol not true. I shipped a rifle from the Tanasbourne last year, and the soy boy at the counter freaked the bubblegum out. Genuine fear and panic in his eyes. I came in with the rifle fully boxed up, not slung over my shoulder or anything. Called the manager, who apoogized and smoothed things over.

 

[Grizzly_A]

Agreed. I commonly use metallic parts, machine parts, exercise equipment, safety equipment, and or tools.
Sporting goods has had some luck but more followup questions.

 

[DarrelVon]

My nephew took a scope into his UPS store to have them package it and ship it to me and was told the couldn't ship it because it was a gun part.

Liberal counter person or is there really a rule against this?
Weird...

I had the same problem. Called local P.O. and said no problem. I did package it myself and sent it at my local P.O. I did insure it as requested and was costly.

 

[titsonritz]

A UPS store is not UPS and their full of s***.

 

[DangerDog]

I know you shouldn't have to but just package it yourself and make your own labels.

 

[The Heretic]

Simple solution: Pack it at home and don't tell them what's in the box.

Many people simply do not know that a scope is simply optics. Tell them it is a telescope. That is what it is.

 

[Trez]

I just drove to Salem, took my nephew out to lunch and had a great conversation. Overall it turned out to be a good thing. God must have known I needed a road trip, I've been stuck at home a lot lately recovering from a carpal tunnel surgery. Thanks for the thoughts for future shipping deals...