Originally Posted By Pipeandwire:
Hey guys,
I’m an home based FFL doing lots of transfers (incoming shipped to). My question is actually shipping out with USPS. I’ve had no less the 25 emails and phone calls and no one can definitively give me in writing the exact process.
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Rifles and shotguns: Print label, tape up box, drop off at any post office.
Handguns and other concealable firearms: Print label, tape up box, Fill out a USPS Form 1508, drop off box and 1508 at any post office.
Anything else isn't required by USPS regs.
Yes I’ve been to the actual post office, have spoken with the post master and head person at the local office. The head person at the p/o said one of the other ffl they deal with here locally has them picked up.
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You could too.
So my issue is, if I box a handgun setup postage and what not in priority mail, it’s legal and no ammo and am going to have the weapon picked up - if I fill out the 1508 form will the carrier sign the bottoms of it when they pick it up, will they scan it when picking it up, will they give me any type of receiptt that it’s been picked up?
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You don't keep the 1508, USPS does. No USPS reg requires you to have a copy. In fifteen years I've never had a receipt. Don't need one. I'm on camera when I drop off packages at the post office.
The phone rep I’ve been dealing with (and the only one that actually calls me back and has been great at trying to get me the info) says probably not but it falls on the integrity of the carrier to transport and bring it back to the post office. Just thinking how a lawyer would be should something happen or it go missing, “CAN U PROVE YOU GAVE THE CARRIER THE PACKAGE”? “Can u prove you signed the 1508 and gave it to the carrier”? As of now, other than maybe dropping it off at the post office itself the answer would be no.
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And???
You have a cell phone? Video him as he waddles away.
I get ups and fedex weapons all the time, but usps seems to be the most common carrier bringing them in from other ffls for customers.
What do u guys do? Thanks
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I don't worry too much about it.