USPS  SFRB

I have been told you have to knock out even the fired primers for USPS shipping.

Timetripper wrote on Sep 28^th, 2023 at 10:10am:


Always my first question!!!

if 99% of them have 'no experience' how would they identify the primer to begin with?  Fired, new, or deprimed would be unknown.

I would think that if you looked on their website there would be a list of prohibited items, make a copy, and if a question arises, you should have the answer. That is given there are no restrictions. Removing a spent primer "should" erase any problems. But, you are dealing with a quasi govt agency.

My experience in asking USPS workers questions about their shipping regulations has shown me it's rare to ever get a correct answer! In almost every case involving any question concerning firearms, brass or anything firearms related, the answer will be negative, and totally incorrect.
I've even called USPS people who are in charge of giving the correct answers, and had them tell me the regs and told me where to find them to print out, yet get to a local station and get told that I can't ship something.
The only way to avoid USPS baloney, and uneducated workers is to look up the regs yourself, and then follow them without asking or telling USPS workers what you're shipping!
In one instance the person in charge apologized for the stupidity of USPS workers, and asked me to go to a different station, and said if anyone asks what's in your box to tell them it's none of their business if it's not one of the standard questions they always ask. Never had an issue after that.

I have a good relationship with the young lady at the local post office.  She only complains when I use a box that is too small for her label. She had no issues with the gun stuff I ship and receive and seems very knowledgeable about regulations. Since I have the agreement with USPS to have them accept packages from other carriers using the physical street address of their office that end up in my P.O. Box including having them sign if needed. I just make sure no hazmat shipments go there.  Years ago I tried to ship a high wall buttstock from a franchise UPS store and when the owner found out what it was he refused to ship it since it was a gun part. I loudly told him that it was a piece of wood!  That store is no longer in business.   

Jack