Well....I just looked into this as I had recently bought locally-available reloading supplies for some family back east. I talked to USPS, the UPS, local shipping services, and even an old employer. While gunpowder is not chemically identified as an explosive material (it's merely a propellant) it is treated as if it were a form of high explosive by just about every Federal Agency that has anything to do with it anymore. Hyper-regulated would be my term for it. Loaded ammunition is far-easier to ship (although the "ORMD" rating was reportedly just terminated by the USPS on 1/1/2021, it's now a new form of a "small quantity" designation). I worked in the environmental remediation world for well-over 20-years with many Federal Agency clients. We shipped lots of really-dirty stuff to lots of legally-specified places over the years and I had figured that a normally, commercially-available 8-lb keg of rifle powder in it's factory sealed heavy plastic container would not be a big deal. I stand corrected. I'm not willing to bend any of the rules here because the penalties for doing so would be devastating financially (& otherwise). If someone here can direct me to a simple, inexpensive & legal way to ship this material, I'm all ears.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 02/04/21 06:29 PM.
