I rarely use anything to ship by except the post office. In the course of my life, I have gotten a lot of stuff sent to me by UPS, but wasn't ready for what happened yesterday.
I sold a .22 upper for an AR. I went to a UPS store on Grayson Hwy. in Grayson where I attempted to purchase a box to overpack it in and the people there went ballistic. They were accusing me of trying to send a firearm and that I needed special licenses, and they kept wanting to argue that I was doing something illegal. One employee finally opened up the box and confirmed it was not a complete firearm, but they continued to want to scream at me in front of customers and accuse me of trying to commit a crime.
I wasn't going to let them argue me down so I held my ground, finally telling them to go to Hell. I then came home and pulled up the UPS site where it states:
"UPS accepts firearm parts for shipment, provided the part is not a "firearm" as defined under federal law..."
So, rather than to drive 20 miles to the UPS hub - where one of the employees said I could ship my box from, I went dumpster diving in a nearby store, fabricated my own box, drove to another UPS store and sent the box as machine parts. They actually ask what's in the box. This morning I contacted UPS to complain.
The stores are independently owned (though subsidiaries of UPS) and not governed by the same rules and policies as UPS. So UPS is telling their stores that it is illegal to ship firearm parts and they are not to accept them for shipment. UPS is lying to the owners of independent stores. So, it was a company policy, not a federal law - facts confirmed when a friend called UPS and got to the bottom of my misfortune. But, that scumbag that owned that outlet in Grayson, Mike Sprayer, did not want to acknowledge that he was wrong about the fact that I did NOT try to commit an illegal act and it was company policy not law. He owes me a simple apology at the very least. He won't see my handsome face again in his establishment. From here on out, I think I'll boycott UPS and let their independently stores know that they could increase their business by ignoring that anti-gun policy. Ship parts through their stores as machine parts and ignore their idiotic policy if you insist on keeping an anti-gun outfit in business.
I sold a .22 upper for an AR. I went to a UPS store on Grayson Hwy. in Grayson where I attempted to purchase a box to overpack it in and the people there went ballistic. They were accusing me of trying to send a firearm and that I needed special licenses, and they kept wanting to argue that I was doing something illegal. One employee finally opened up the box and confirmed it was not a complete firearm, but they continued to want to scream at me in front of customers and accuse me of trying to commit a crime.
I wasn't going to let them argue me down so I held my ground, finally telling them to go to Hell. I then came home and pulled up the UPS site where it states:
"UPS accepts firearm parts for shipment, provided the part is not a "firearm" as defined under federal law..."
So, rather than to drive 20 miles to the UPS hub - where one of the employees said I could ship my box from, I went dumpster diving in a nearby store, fabricated my own box, drove to another UPS store and sent the box as machine parts. They actually ask what's in the box. This morning I contacted UPS to complain.
The stores are independently owned (though subsidiaries of UPS) and not governed by the same rules and policies as UPS. So UPS is telling their stores that it is illegal to ship firearm parts and they are not to accept them for shipment. UPS is lying to the owners of independent stores. So, it was a company policy, not a federal law - facts confirmed when a friend called UPS and got to the bottom of my misfortune. But, that scumbag that owned that outlet in Grayson, Mike Sprayer, did not want to acknowledge that he was wrong about the fact that I did NOT try to commit an illegal act and it was company policy not law. He owes me a simple apology at the very least. He won't see my handsome face again in his establishment. From here on out, I think I'll boycott UPS and let their independently stores know that they could increase their business by ignoring that anti-gun policy. Ship parts through their stores as machine parts and ignore their idiotic policy if you insist on keeping an anti-gun outfit in business.
