Went to my local FedEx office yesterday to ship a gun from CA to the midwest and ran into a new glitch. The shipment was a simple Spanish boxlock .410, going to a smith for repair. Nothing on the box to indicate that it contained a gun. Because it's a relatively low value gun, I decided to ship FedEx Ground, but to insure for more than $500. They told me that anything going ground with insurance at $500 or higher required that they open the box and inspect the contents. So I said "let's insure it for $499." They still wanted to inspect it. I declined because I had several hours invested in very carefully and securely packing the gun, and opening the package would destroy the integrity of the packing (lots of rigid foam insulation panels, box inside another box, etc.). They would not let me ship it without opening it in front of them. The solution was to send it FedEx Express (air) with as much insurance as I wanted, no inspection necessary.
Anybody else had this problem with FedEx?
