Is the USPS anti gun?

357 MAX · Jul 30, 2025

I bought a contender barrels from e bay.

was shipped from New York on 7/7/25
arrived in Aurora Colorado on 7/10
stayed there for 4 days shipped to next USPS facility and dissapeared.
2 weeks later its in Honolulu Hi.
post office said it was put in the wrong bin

still waiting for package

Nutty4Guns · Jul 30, 2025

Anti gun? Perhaps. Incompetent? Absolutely! It's been going on for years with packages and USPS

WAYNO · Jul 30, 2025

Maybe not the USPS, but definitely many of their employees are anti gun. I have had so many issues with the anti-gun management and counter people at the Oregon City post office, I had completely given up trying to ship guns thru them.

When I did ship guns thru them, I would bring all the printed laws and codes. That really angered them and then they started making stuff up.

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Spitpatch · Jul 30, 2025

I spent a half a day at the Tualatin Post Office (including a side-trip to the public library to print law chapter and verse), and thoroughly enjoyed making a spectacle of myself during a process by which I educated and publicly embarrassed the Postmaster there toward my intent to mail a bolt-action deer rifle to myself in Montana.

He wasn't necessarily anti-gun. He was anti-knowing his job.

Alexx1401 · Jul 30, 2025

Anti gun? How about anti hiring competent staff. USPS is FAMOUS for their ability to screw things up and it does not matter if its anything to do with a gun. There is a reason its a standing joke about some employee being so bad the Post Office would fire them, as its VERY hard to do.

CountryGent · Jul 30, 2025

I've found some USPS types can be utterly clueless as to their own regulations. At one point, I had to find, printout, and deliver said guidelines to a local postmaster showing them that, yes, an FFL can ship through the postal system. (And nonlicensee can ship long guns.) After that, it was smooth sailing. Generally speaking, no, I haven't found them as anti-gun. Those that actually know the law and their own regs handle it like any other parcel.

What is left of our local UPS used to be managed by an openly anti-gun, obnoxious twit that would violate her own company policy to throw sand in the gears. Getting the corporate office on the horn, along with me and the brown-emblazoned buffoon, eventually, straightened it out. (I say what is left is because the hub is all but completely closed down and you're left with UPS stores farther north.)

The local FedEx where my office is located is staggeringly incompetent and routinely falsifiers records (i.e., don't even bother to stop, but mark package delivered or office closed, when neither is true). I avoid them like the plague now. One of the mouth-breathers that works there is anti-gun and is a real nozzle about it. But their present policy they only allow non-licenses to ship with a prepaid/printed label anyway. It is perfectly legal for a nonlicensee to ship through a carrier to a licensee, but someone in their disintegrating organization thought that was a good call to add extra hoops. (Bizarrely, my home is located in a different delivery area, and the FedEx office handling that has been good.)

I used USPS extensively when running a 01FFL and found the shipping the best in terms of performance and cost, but only because the race to the bottom with the other carriers. Now that I hung up my license, I use them for long guns, and a local FFL for handguns. It is sad commentary on any organization or industry when the postal service is outperforming them.

1911Fanatic · Jul 30, 2025

WAYNO said:
Maybe not the USPS, but definitely many of their employees are anti gun. I have had so many issues with the anti-gun management and counter people at the Oregon City post office, I had completely given up trying to ship guns thru them.

When I did ship guns thru them, I would bring all the printed laws and codes. That really angered them and then they started making stuff up.

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Rifles are legal. If they refuse the package, sue them and then take money and buy more guns. USPS won't ship handguns, but I shipped an AR once with them. No problems.

bionic knees · Jul 30, 2025

The U.S.P.S. like all government agencies are havens for incompetent dimwits.

WAYNO · Jul 30, 2025

1911Fanatic said:
Rifles are legal. If they refuse the package, sue them and then take money and buy more guns. .

Yes I know this.

Sue the guberment? See how far that goes.

Alexx1401 · Jul 30, 2025

1911Fanatic said:
Rifles are legal. If they refuse the package, sue them and then take money and buy more guns. USPS won't ship handguns, but I shipped an AR once with them. No problems.

I have to guess you have never tried to sue the USPS? NO ONE is going to sue them for this and walk away with money to buy a gun. Its sad they hire so many incompetent employee's but no one is going to get anywhere trying to take them to court.

CountryGent · Jul 30, 2025

Alexx1401 said:
I have to guess you have never tried to sue the USPS? NO ONE is going to sue them for this and walk away with money to buy a gun. Its sad they hire so many incompetent employee's but no one is going to get anywhere trying to take them to court.

Sad, but true. Heck, try getting a refund due to their regular package handling incompetence.

TTSX · Jul 30, 2025

...... They're not the bogeyman, nor are they out to get you....

Tlock · Jul 30, 2025

bionic knees said:
The U.S.P.S. like all government agencies are havens for incompetent dimwits.

20 years with the feds and I can testify to this statement. Few and far between in most agencies. 90% of the trappers are top notch, but the leadership are dimwits

1911Fanatic · Jul 30, 2025

Alexx1401 said:
I have to guess you have never tried to sue the USPS? NO ONE is going to sue them for this and walk away with money to buy a gun. It's sad they hire so many incompetent employee's but no one is going to get anywhere trying to take them to court.

Sic Trumps DOJ on em!

1911Fanatic · Jul 30, 2025

I know it's hard to read into my sarcasm, but perhaps I should write my smart assed comments in purple.

Alexx1401 · Jul 30, 2025

Tlock said:
20 years with the feds and I can testify to this statement. Few and far between in most agencies. 90% of the trappers are top notch, but the leadership are dimwits

They type that VERY often rise to the top are the LEAST qualified in Gov.

MymuttBear · Jul 30, 2025

But isn't it sort of exciting to track your parcel and see it almost get to your local post office only for it to go back out of state?

It almost feels like you've won the lottery when it finally gets delivered

CountryGent · Jul 30, 2025

MymuttBear said:
But isn't it sort of exciting to track your parcel and see it almost get to your local post office only for it to go back out of state?

It almost feels like you've won the lottery when it finally gets delivered

I had a Priority Mail (allegedly 2—3 day delivery) take over three weeks and it bounced all over hell and gone like that. Congratulations, USPS, you couldn't beat Pony Express delivery times.

dangerranger60 · Jul 30, 2025

I used to ship gun parts all over the country using USPS. after about 2020 this business of parts going on tour has become more and more common. I sent a pair of scope adjustment caps from central CA to Southern CA. they passed through Chicago, Ft Worth and Salt Lake City before LA.

BillM · Jul 30, 2025

USPS tracking sucks, and it's not at all un-usual for a package to go walkabout or sit in a hub for a week or so. Then the next package will show up from across the country in a day. If you REALLY want to see some incompetence, USPS does last mile delivery in partnership with Fedex (Smartpost) and UPS (Surepost) . Service is neither Smart nor Sure. Had a time sensitive package get stuck at the handoff in Federal Way Washington for 34 days, and a box of 3600 bullets simply disappear. Fun.