Posted on 09/11/2022 9:57:46 AM PDT by thegagline
UPS has stepped up its anti-gun campaign by requiring online sellers to ship an average of 50 handguns daily to use its 2nd Day Air service.
Sellers who do not ship at least 350 handguns a week risk losing their shipping accounts. Under the new agreement, UPS is only required to give customers a ten-day notice before cutting them off from the shipping service. The volume necessary means that most online retailers and manufacturers are now cut off from shipping guns through the carrier unless the handgun is shipped using the expensive Next Day Air service.
The notice was sent to UPS customers that deal in firearms. UPS has been under pressure from anti-gun groups and politicians to stop doing business with the gun industry. This new move appears to be a way that UPS can cut ties to most of the industry without jeopardizing its major accounts.
The letter also references updating its policies to be in line with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and state regulations. This reference most likely refers to new rules surrounding privately manufactured firearms (PMF). But UPS goes much further than required by law.
UPS has been at the center of controversy recently when it canceled the account of a seller of 80% lowers. The shipping giant notified Ghost Firearms of Florida that it would stop shipping from the company. It also told the online retailer that it would “seize and destroy” packages currently en route to customers leaving Ghost Firearms scrambling for options.
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Recently Giffords sent a letter to FedEx and UPS asking the companies to adopt “a policy of refusing to ship dangerous firearm products that are fueling the epidemic of gun violence in America.” ***
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USPS, are you kidding me? Just in the last six months their delivery times have skyrocketed. As example, I get CPAP supplies delivered quarterly. Normally 1-2 days across town. Latest delivery 5 days. As for tracking it’s a joke. Almost every time I have item in my hands while tracking says hasn’t shipped yet. USPS partnering with Fed-x or UPS is even worse. Item will come across country 1-2 days (Fed-x or UPS) only to die in USPS warehouse for up to 7 days.
I think it was FedEx. IIRC they subcontract out the final stages of deliveries to local independents. Who are being hit hard by inflation, especial in fuel. Their price/contract structure hasn’t been able to adjust rapidly enough.
” 2nd Day Air service.”
Do customers even pay for 2nd day air?
Now the UPS has been weaponized. When will America use the guns they’ve bought?
No.
The gun dealer I used in Marietta GA. used USPS Priority Mail for handguns. You need an FFL to ship handguns with the USPS, but it’s an economical way for dealers to ship. I use Priority Mail for long guns and never had a problem. Also, never had USPS ask what I was shipping. With UPS and Fedex you have to ship at corporate locations not stores, and you declare guns when you ship them. Some of the employees don’t understand the law and UPS/Fedex rules and think private citizens can’t ship long guns.
What are you going to have to use for repairs and parts I wonder. I had to ship have a few things shipped back and forth from the factories, guess that’ll have to be USPS or what
This can't be legal but I guess UPS figures they have deeper pockets for managing any legal challenges.
This nation is finished because we can not come together to stop this. I don’t know why we can not, but I do know it is not happening and our government representatives are almost all corrupted and are doing NOTHING to fix this.
Typical cost 1 gun FL to CO:
Next Day Air: $62
Second Day Air: $48
Ground: $29
That reminds me, I bought my first three screw Ruger .44 mag Super Blackhawk , with a Bank Americard back in 1968 before the law was passed. It cost a whole $125.00 brand new.
Wish I had kept all those pre-gun law firearms I had back then.
fed ex is hardly an option for shipping much of anything. they are having problems staying on time or delivering at all.
Back in 1968, a gun store owner told me how it works. You could ship by railway express back then. Each firearm package had a big red tape around it with the words FIREARMS clearly marked on it.
He said that the express men would have certain friends park at a remote crossing, and as the train passed, they would toss the FIREARMS marked packages out to waiting cars.
Back in the mid 1970s a famous gun writer sent a firearm back to the manufacturer for work. It disappeared in shipment.
What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.
Maybe, but in 1933, Jews were about 1% of Germany. And they didn’t have 500 million guns, and were not the national repository of decades of infantry, hunter, and cop experience.
If the balloon goes up, I would sure not want to be them.
But this time the corporations are completely willing to cooperate with the fascists.
IMMEDIATELY! STOP USING UPS.
They have turned communist!
I very highly suspect the FedGov is directly involved in this. I would bet on it.
Back in 1968 I bought a handgun through the mail. It was shipped Railway Express from Alabama to Little Rock Ark. When I got it the Railway Express charges were more than the firearm even cost!
About what you would expect from a union run company that sucks up to the democrats.
Have disliked them since their strike in the 80s or 90s.
Use USPS, vote fraud launderers of the Democrat Party.
Do not give USPS a single unneeded cent.
Let them starve.
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