dipper
April 16, 2008, 02:37 PM
Hi Guys,
Went to ship out one of my revolvers for some custom work yesterday.
Went to Going Postal which is a shipper like Mail Boxes Etc.
Among others, they represent or use Fed Ex which I KNOW ships handguns out via next day air only.
Had my revolver in the original factory case and had that in a cardboard box which was open.
Set it on the counter and told the guy that I wanted to ship this out and it was a handgun and he freakin jumps back about 5 feet like a threw a rattle snake on the counter.
He says he can't ship it or even touch it.
I ask why since he is a Fed EX shipper and he says " it's our chains policy, we do not and will not ship firearms---period."
Again, he says he can't even touch the box!!
I ask him if Fed EX knew this and he said he didn't know.
I asked for the name and number of the regional manager to ask why they have this policy and he says "your looking at him, I am the regional manager."
He told me to call corporate headquarters but said it wouldn't do a darn bit of good.
I told him that since they have such a policy, that I wouldn't use them to ship out ANYTHING ever.
What a crock---and as a side note, when I said "handgun" the other patrons in the store looked at me like I was Charles Manson or something.
Went to Fed Ex down the road and got it shipped but the clerk there acted like I was trying to ship crack and she knew NOTHING about the policy for shipping a handgun.
She didn't know that it had to be next day air and she said that I had to have an FFL to ship it out---thank God we got it straight and I got it shipped.
I told her that my gunsmith has an FFL and thats all that is required--I did not need one.
Took me 3 hours to ship my revolver!!
The media has done a great job in painting gun owners as idiots---I'm getting tired of this crap.
I won't be using going postal to ship anything and I told them so!!
Dipper
Went to ship out one of my revolvers for some custom work yesterday.
Went to Going Postal which is a shipper like Mail Boxes Etc.
Among others, they represent or use Fed Ex which I KNOW ships handguns out via next day air only.
Had my revolver in the original factory case and had that in a cardboard box which was open.
Set it on the counter and told the guy that I wanted to ship this out and it was a handgun and he freakin jumps back about 5 feet like a threw a rattle snake on the counter.
He says he can't ship it or even touch it.
I ask why since he is a Fed EX shipper and he says " it's our chains policy, we do not and will not ship firearms---period."
Again, he says he can't even touch the box!!
I ask him if Fed EX knew this and he said he didn't know.
I asked for the name and number of the regional manager to ask why they have this policy and he says "your looking at him, I am the regional manager."
He told me to call corporate headquarters but said it wouldn't do a darn bit of good.
I told him that since they have such a policy, that I wouldn't use them to ship out ANYTHING ever.
What a crock---and as a side note, when I said "handgun" the other patrons in the store looked at me like I was Charles Manson or something.
Went to Fed Ex down the road and got it shipped but the clerk there acted like I was trying to ship crack and she knew NOTHING about the policy for shipping a handgun.
She didn't know that it had to be next day air and she said that I had to have an FFL to ship it out---thank God we got it straight and I got it shipped.
I told her that my gunsmith has an FFL and thats all that is required--I did not need one.
Took me 3 hours to ship my revolver!!
The media has done a great job in painting gun owners as idiots---I'm getting tired of this crap.
I won't be using going postal to ship anything and I told them so!!
Dipper