Retumbo Powder
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tobacco road
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I'll be in Wyoming for elk season, if you still have it in 3 weeks I'll take it
esshup
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HUH? When did this start?? I was under the impression that a person could ship HazMat via UPS as long as they paid the HazMat shipping fee.
Been this way for a long long time
Jcjcarnes
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Where in Wyoming ?
nicholasjohn
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I don't think it has ever been that way. It's quite a tedious process to get certified to ship hazmat. The only thing worse ( for the shipper, that is ) than shipping hazmat without a license to do so is screwing up when you are licensed and not doing it right. It is a highly detailed process, and there are lots of angles to attend to along the way. While it seems like highway robbery when you are paying the fee, if you knew what goes into it you'd appreciate it. As a retired UPS pilot, I certainly appreciate that things that are capable of causing a major problem in the back of a cargo airplane have been properly packaged by certified hands.
JimmyCP
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I'm still confused. Illegal, unla
Its actually slower by load weight. Tried it. Had better and closer matches with the imr 7977 with a bout the same capacity. 7977 is supposed to replace H1000 but is actually slower than h1000 in all 3 calibers I tried it in. Compared realy close to all my retumbo loads.
Hodgdon told me they didn't know if theyll catch up this year on retumbo orders. They said some h1000 was going out the end of month.
Where in WY. I'm in Montana elk hunting and would come get it
freddiej
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I have something to say about this rule about individuals shipping HazMat . I had hazmat shipped to me less than 6 years ago from a woman in Missouri with guns from a collection to someone here in Nevada. it was his inheritance. his sister was told by the USPS to just pay the hazmat and the USPS would ship it for her. how did that happen if it was illegal to do?
Not going to argue what some people do illegal but USPS strickly states no ammo or explosives and some people get away with it but I don't feel like federal prison time. Especially in this day and age to even think of trying to ship explosives through USPS is a no brainer
freddiej
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IT was USPS that told her to do this. she asked the head person at her local post office how she was supposed to do this. this person instructed her how to and it came to me via USPS. this is all I know so why would an employee of the USPS tell her how to do something illegal? I am very confused here.
an employee not understanding all the rules but the law is the law and an individual cannot ship powder with out a hazmat license and I wont take that chance, now if a person knows someone with a hazmat license they can get it shipped
