Shipping Problems

[Stan Hillis]

UPS ships hundreds of firearms everyday, literally.

CompNChoke, near me, is a machine shop that makes screw-in choke tubes and does barrel threading for them, and makes and install muzzle brakes on rifles. The owners are my close friends. They use UPS entirely to ship, and have for over 20 years.

I am fortunate that they're happy to receive firearms for me, or ship them for me from their facility. They print the label if I ship, and there's never an issue.

They may get special rates from UPS because of the volume they ship and receive, but I've never heard them say.

Good to know about Pirate Ship, if this avenue (CompNChoke) ever closes for me.

[Steve Hodges]

Can you purchase insurance on Pirate Ship?

[Bill Murphy]

In reply to an earlier post, "I'm not leaving my gun at a grocery store."

[J. Scott Hanes]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hodges

Can you purchase insurance on Pirate Ship?

Absolutely. Anything offered by either USPS or UPS is available on Pirateship. It is very straightforward and easy to use. Of course you need to be able to weigh your package and submit the dimensions on the form, choose how much insurance you wish and the software adds it all up. Then you "buy" the label, which is charged to your credit card on file. Once paid, you then "print label" and you need to have a printer to do that. Your return addresss and the address you input on the form is already on the label.

I just print the label out on regular paper, cut away the excess and tape the ship label to the box. Then drop it off at the shipper.