LGF: How exactly does one sick the BATF on the dweebs at the Post Office?
I'm seriously considering that option here BTW.
I'm assuming that either by phone or by email (or both) you would provide them with a copy of the postal receipt (with the tracking number and date of shipment) as well as the name and address of the shipping gunsmith, the serial number and maker, age, and type of the firearm and then send them off on their merry way?
Might as well make these bedamnedable bureaucrats earn their keep, eh? We're saddled with all these city, state & federal employees who expect us to put up with (& pay for) their seemingly-endless rules and regulations but we aren't given any way to hold any of them even remotely accountable when their much-vaunted systems so-completely fail us. I guess we're supposed to just wait around and wring our hands until they finally get around to resolving things in their own sweet time?
Screw that.
I'm tempted to call my local PD first and declare the gun stolen, giving the Post Office employees in Phoenix as the primary suspects. From there I would move on to the local offices of the BATF I imagine and file my complaint with them next. Hopefully, the local police detectives could assist me with that contact?
If this was any other piece of sporting tackle I'd be completely out of options here. An expensive bamboo flyrod, good binoculars, a custom knife, even a fine and expensive wristwatch, but because it is a post 1898 firearm by God...it's now a big deal that gets the Feds involved and perhaps the Postal inspectors too, eh?
I just hope the damn thing shows up here on Monday.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 09/19/26 06:09 AM.
