I recently shipped a butt stock and forend to Canada in one of the boxes I make (Allan Swanson's design) and foolishly secured both top and bottom sheets of luan subflooring with the smallest size square-head screws.
Canadian customs needed to verify the contents of the box and apparently didn't have the correct square bit... so they DESTROYED the box! Fortunately the contents were undamaged.
But I always ship via USPS for the very reasons BFT lists.
Further, I always insure my guns and gun parts for the simple reason that 'they' will know I'm serious and they will know that each person who handles the package will be under closer scrutiny.
I may be wrong, but that's how I hope it works.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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