Shipping ammo???

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Okay so my local gun store tells me if I ship ups ground, it should be a normal fee with no hazardous material fee.but when I take it into the main ups station they charge. Me with a hazardous material fee and it costs more to ship the ammo than I did buying the ammo . So what does guy need to do to get it shipped correctly and charged accordingly.
Thanks for any input
 
Originally Posted By: coloradocatOkay so my local gun store tells me if I ship ups ground, it should be a normal fee with no hazardous material fee.but when I take it into the main ups station they charge. Me with a hazardous material fee and it costs more to ship the ammo than I did buying the ammo . So what does guy need to do to get it shipped correctly and charged accordingly.
Thanks for any input

It is not hazmat... the local UPS store refused to ship a wooden gunstock (alone) cuz he said someone could build a gun with it ????

Take it to Fed-ex, the people in the UPS stores don't know doodley squat. Ammunition ships as "ORM-D Ground".
 
Take it back to the UPS Store and tell the guy to LOOK IT UP! Make him get off his arse and DO HIS JOB! I did that at the local Post Office when I shipped a gun once. Made the postmaster terribly angry ... until she found out that I was right and she was wrong.
 
I believe ammo has to go through the ups hub and there is no extra fee. The ups stores aren't the same as ups. Here where I'm at the hub is only open to the public 3hrs a day which don't make it easy.
 
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Originally Posted By: CatShooterOriginally Posted By: coloradocatOkay so my local gun store tells me if I ship ups ground, it should be a normal fee with no hazardous material fee.but when I take it into the main ups station they charge. Me with a hazardous material fee and it costs more to ship the ammo than I did buying the ammo . So what does guy need to do to get it shipped correctly and charged accordingly.
Thanks for any input

It is not hazmat... the local UPS store refused to ship a wooden gunstock (alone) cuz he said someone could build a gun with it ????

Take it to Fed-ex, the people in the UPS stores don't know doodley squat. Ammunition ships as "ORM-D Ground".



UPS treats ammo like Haz Mat by policy, even though they do not require industry standared Haz Mat labeling conventions.

Here is UPS's page on shipping ammo: http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resourc..._phr=ammunition

Anything to do with shipping guns is a crap shoot. It all depends on who's at the counter when you get there. The average employee today can only push buttons and do what the simple screen directions tell them to do, so anything that they don't do every day, all day, and they are lost.

Grouse
 
Originally Posted By: The Famous GrouseOriginally Posted By: CatShooterOriginally Posted By: coloradocatOkay so my local gun store tells me if I ship ups ground, it should be a normal fee with no hazardous material fee.but when I take it into the main ups station they charge. Me with a hazardous material fee and it costs more to ship the ammo than I did buying the ammo . So what does guy need to do to get it shipped correctly and charged accordingly.
Thanks for any input

It is not hazmat... the local UPS store refused to ship a wooden gunstock (alone) cuz he said someone could build a gun with it ????

Take it to Fed-ex, the people in the UPS stores don't know doodley squat. Ammunition ships as "ORM-D Ground".



UPS treats ammo like Haz Mat by policy, even though they do not require industry standared Haz Mat labeling conventions.

Here is UPS's page on shipping ammo: http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resourc..._phr=ammunition

Anything to do with shipping guns is a crap shoot. It all depends on who's at the counter when you get there. The average employee today can only push buttons and do what the simple screen directions tell them to do, so anything that they don't do every day, all day, and they are lost.

Grouse


Don't send it by UPS, Send it by Fed-ex... life gets so easy.
 
Originally Posted By: CatShooterOriginally Posted By: The Famous GrouseOriginally Posted By: CatShooterOriginally Posted By: coloradocatOkay so my local gun store tells me if I ship ups ground, it should be a normal fee with no hazardous material fee.but when I take it into the main ups station they charge. Me with a hazardous material fee and it costs more to ship the ammo than I did buying the ammo . So what does guy need to do to get it shipped correctly and charged accordingly.
Thanks for any input

It is not hazmat... the local UPS store refused to ship a wooden gunstock (alone) cuz he said someone could build a gun with it ????

Take it to Fed-ex, the people in the UPS stores don't know doodley squat. Ammunition ships as "ORM-D Ground".



UPS treats ammo like Haz Mat by policy, even though they do not require industry standared Haz Mat labeling conventions.

Here is UPS's page on shipping ammo: http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resourc..._phr=ammunition

Anything to do with shipping guns is a crap shoot. It all depends on who's at the counter when you get there. The average employee today can only push buttons and do what the simple screen directions tell them to do, so anything that they don't do every day, all day, and they are lost.

Grouse


Don't send it by UPS, Send it by Fed-ex... life gets so easy.

True story
 
I consider it a moderate pain to ship ammo legally. I've done the UPS deal a few times, from a UPS staffed shipping counter.
 
Originally Posted By: DANNY-LI believe ammo has to go through the ups hub and there is no extra fee. The ups stores aren't the same as ups. Here where I'm at the hub is only open to the public 3hrs a day which don't make it easy.

^^^^^ This.

"The UPS Store" is a PITA and their contracts thru UPS won't allow them to take anything firearms related even though a main UPS hub will. They wouldn't even ship a barrel blank for me which is nothing more than a piece of pipe at that stage. The lady at our local store was so uptight about it you would have thought I was asking to send plutonium to Iranistan....
 
I once went to the ups store to ship a rifle scope back to bushnell,manager was working the counter. He asked what it was and I told him,O we can't ship a scope,ya sure it's not a telescope cause we can ship them. Yup it's a telescope. What stupid policies.
 
Originally Posted By: FurhunterOriginally Posted By: DANNY-LI believe ammo has to go through the ups hub and there is no extra fee. The ups stores aren't the same as ups. Here where I'm at the hub is only open to the public 3hrs a day which don't make it easy.

^^^^^ This.

"The UPS Store" is a PITA and their contracts thru UPS won't allow them to take anything firearms related even though a main UPS hub will. They wouldn't even ship a barrel blank for me which is nothing more than a piece of pipe at that stage. The lady at our local store was so uptight about it you would have thought I was asking to send plutonium to Iranistan....

So why not just tell them it is a machine part? No one asks me whats in my UPS packages. Maybe the Phoenix places are retraded on that or they know the policies? Who knows how many UPS barrels I've shipped.

Greg
 
Sent my second batch of 17 hornet ammo down to my brother and It was labeled OMRD. UPS man picked it up right at the office and about 5days later it was dropped off. But yes the UPS store is a whole different can of worms. If you go online and print a shipping label and then send them an email they will pick it up right at your door for an extra charge for the call to pick up. The last set that I sent cost me under $15 to send ups.
 
Originally Posted By: GLShooter No one asks me whats in my UPS packages.

they never ask me either. if they did the answer would be a set of antique book ends.
 

I sent rifles and ammo to two different states in 2011 for coyote hunting. I used a local UPS store. No questions were asked and I had zero problems. I'm sure other stores behave differently, however.
 
Originally Posted By: HidalgoOriginally Posted By: DoublessAs of 1/1/2014, the ORM-D designation and labeling requirements have changed, and the ORM-D label has been eliminated. Please see the link below:

http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2012...ammo-shipments/

I just received some ammo from Midway. The box had a ORM-D sticker on it.

I didn't state that all the companies shipping ammo would immediately be in compliance. I simply showed a link to the new requirement.

Doing it wrong doesn't mean that is in compliance with the law...
 
Originally Posted By: HidalgoOriginally Posted By: DoublessAs of 1/1/2014, the ORM-D designation and labeling requirements have changed, and the ORM-D label has been eliminated. Please see the link below:

http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2012...ammo-shipments/

I just received some ammo from Midway. The box had a ORM-D sticker on it.

I shipped some ammo a few months ago, ORM-D label was only marking required.
 
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