I ship a fair amount of guns (shipped one yesterday). I'm not an FFL dealer, but I get the receiving dealers FFL and include a copy of that with the gun. I normally ship Registered USPS, but I have been known to ship insured USPS. The hassle with Registered is the package has to wrapped in brown paper and all corners taped with brown paper tape that USPS doesn't even sell in their stores. Thus you have to go to Staples or wherever to get it. The advantage of Registered Mail is it won't be lost as is has to be signed for every step of the way. I know that because I'm a retired Fed and we used to ship high value items via registered mail because there was a tracking system in place.
The negative thing with the USPS is many of the people in my area don't know the rules about shipping guns and they tend to get all stupid and pulling rules out of their tail when I show up. Because of that, I don't tell them its a gun. Last time I shipped a gun and they asked I told them it was circassian walnut and machined parts (sort of true).
PS. I do a lot of business with my local gun dealer. I always goes to the same post office he uses (if I'm going to see him) and the lady at the PO knows him. When I get there to ship a gun I just tell them I've got something from John (the dealers name) that I'm shipping for him. She's known John for 20 years and therefore she knows its a gun and she knows it legal, etc. etc..
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