You just can't tell these days - last July I bought a gun from a major midwestern dealer who insisted on shipping the gun by registered mail. I begged him to just use max insured Priority Mail 2-3 day service (with which you can insure a gun for up to $35K without detailed insurance provenance, country of origin, etc.), but he would not do it. It took 3 weeks with USPS "cradle to grave" signoff policy for every human in the USPS chain that handled the package for the gun to come from MI to MD.
A week ago I used regular USPS Priority Mail 2-3 day service to send an outsized package (not a gun) (38"long x 10" wide x 10" deep) from VA to OH and went thru 10 full minutes at the PO of "Ah, dohn no if it too long; may have to air express, how come so big", etc. Finally sent off Monday PM and was waiting on the guy's doorstep on Thursday morning of the same week. So much of the explanations are contrived nowadays; "short of staff due to COVID; Only Vera has the Registered Mail Daily Roster and she must have been off that day"! The PO is getting like Starbuck's - more servers behind the counter than customers in the store and they all but one (working the register) find some way(s) to avoid you. I am SO sick of it!!
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