Not to drive this even further,but;
A) There is NO requiment that you must have the FFL of the person you are sending the gun to,only that they have one.
B) You can not check a 01 FFL (C&R) on the BATF ez check site (you can call them to be sure thou)-only 03's (dealer)
C)You can ship handguns through the USPS but bothe sended and reciver must have a FFL and a seperate form (very easy)
Priority is faster,registered is much safer thou and the only way I ship guns USPS.
D) A unlicensed person may ship a gun to himself in another state (say for hunting),however for all other shipping intrastate the reviever must have a FFL. And once again,someone who does stockwork who is NOT in the business,does not need an FFL to work on your gun !
Example, I go hunting with "my brother in law" who is NOT in the business (he is in "Waste Management")but is very hand and has put a nice leather covered pad on his Parker DHE.I ask him if he will do it for me and he agrees,I leave the whole gun with him and pick in up when I see him two weeks later.No licence is required on his end,or mine (if I am unlicenced).
All correct, Dave.
However, even though I've received lots of things, including guns through USPS, I still prefer UPS. The alleged "tracking" that USPS offers amounts to: "We have received the package" and "it's been delivered", after the fact. I know when it's been delivered, because it's in my hot, trembling hands. With UPS, I know pretty much where it is and when it will arrive. I've had no problems with UPS, either, except a couple of times when an idiot was at the counter, who had no clue what UPS's rules were. I now go to a UPS "store", in a supermarket, less than a mile from my house. They accept guns with no problems and charge the same as an actual UPS counter location, so far as I have been able to determine. When I insure the package, they don't even ask what's in the package. This is as it should be, IMO. You're just betting that the package won't be lost, based on what you say it's worth. If you buy insurance on $10,000, it shouldn't matter if the box is full of dog doodoo. Again, JMO(logical to me, of course)
