Shipping bullets

[LM056]

I have also used "metal components" successfully, and when once asked "what metals?" I answered with "mostly copper" and had no problems.

 

[Varmint Hunter]

"metal fabrications"

 

[Rich Coyle]

If you use the flat rate box for less than $9 you can ship whatever you can get into it. Recently I sold a bunch of 6.5mm bullets. The boxes were too big so put the bullets in a plastic bag and flattened the boxes. I think there were four boxes of bullets in there packed solidly so they didn't rattle. It would have been almost $20 if I didn't use the flat rate box.

 

[martinakl]

I prepay for shipping online, print it, tape it on, and drop it off. They never ask what's in the box. When you pre pay you online have to check a box saying it's not "no-no" items so I guess that covers the legal part of it.

Especially true if I put it in the prepaid drop bin (inside the post office, not the bins on the sidewalk/parking lots ). That thing has never given me any lip or asked any questions. It's also open 24 hours a day, including holidays, and weekends.

When you're there, grab a stack of all the different sizes of prepaid boxes they have and keep stocked up. So easy.

 

[epags]

don't ever tell them you're shipping "bullets" , the general public automaticaly translates that to ammunition... hell, even a large percentage of folks who own guns don't know the difference

don't tell them "lead" either, because most people have been conditioned to think that a piece of lead, is a highly toxic thing and react irrationally

friend of mine who has been a postal employee for 25+ years, he hunts, shoots targets and handloads all his ammo

this is what he instructed me to use and it is 100% truthful and will not create any undue problems

"non-ferrous metal components"

non-ferrous metals include = Copper, lead, aluminum, brass, tin and zinc, basically everything most bullets contain in one form or another

"components" are simply parts of something and is a legal & truthful term to use and bullets are in fact components .... of a cartridge

same can be applied to shipping brass

Good answer....non-ferrous metal components. I have received and returned some defective bullets vis USPS without any problem. Almost all my bullet purchases are shipped via USPS Priority Mail. Only time I had a problem (because most people have been conditioned to think that a piece of lead, is a highly toxic thing and react irrationally) was when Oregon Trails shipped me 30 lbs of bullets and the post office in Bakersfield dropped and and the container broke open...shipper had to step in and get them to repackage and ship on to me.....LOL However, seems about 2 lbs of bullets 'disappeared'