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Tools and Uses => Reloading => Topic started by: Kumachan on September 26, 2013, 11:52:20 AM
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I would like to ship ammo to the mainland from Hilo, HI but looks like its very hard or next to impossible to do. I went to both Fed Ex and UPS located at the Hilo airport to see if I could but both said no. UPS said I would have to be employed in a company that handles haz mat goodsand take their UPS haz mat packing/ shipping course.
I have seen how the ammo is packed in the boxes and its the forms / tags that need to be filled out. looks simple enough to do even at the UPS Fed Ex office.
Any other carrier that I can go to beside them? Its just 16 boxes of rifle ammo.
Thanks.
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I would like to ship ammo to the mainland from Hilo, HI but looks like its very hard or next to impossible to do. I went to both Fed Ex and UPS located at the Hilo airport to see if I could but both said no. UPS said I would have to be employed in a company that handles haz mat goodsand take their UPS haz mat packing/ shipping course.
I have seen how the ammo is packed in the boxes and its the forms / tags that need to be filled out. looks simple enough to do even at the UPS Fed Ex office.
Any other carrier that I can go to beside them? Its just 16 boxes of rifle ammo.
Thanks.
I have gone through this process. It's not that FedEx can't ship it. It is either that the particular person don't want to deal with it or don't know that they can ship it. I ran into both of these probs when I shipped ammo. If u go t their website and look through their rules and regs u will see that they can ship ammo. Unless their rules have changed since 2009 when I shipped ammo from the mainland. Just be aware it is so expensive it will be the same price to give away your old ammo and buy new on the mainland. Also u need to provide all the proper paperwork like MSDS sheets.
UPS and USPS rules don't allow ammo shipments in their planes. UPS may still ship ammo by ground only. If u had a lot of ammo u could find a freight forwarder as it would be cheaper that way. But I think u need at least 150 pounds to make it worth while if my memory is correct.
All of my experience comes from m experience in 2009. So things may have changed since then.
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Ammo is 16- 20rd boxes of odd ball rilfe ammo which does not seem to have any interest here. I worked at a gun shop in Hilo years ago and have seen how the ammo came in from the mainland by UPS and Fed Ex. The distributors usually did a crappy job in packing the ammo. - loose boxes in packing peanuts. I had loose rounds all over inside the boxes.
The only thing is the forms and the labels that need to be filled out and stuck on the box. I would of figured that the people at the office could help me through that by making sure I did it correctly. Pay the freight and haz mat fee but they wouldn't let me do that.
What might come down to is if the ammo is not sold here then it would be broken down into components. Deprime & no powder. Just brass and bullets. I would not make a third of the factory ammo. At least that way I could ship it out by USPS.
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Aloha! My suggestion is that you sell the ammo locally. You can ship ammo to the mainland but its a pain in the ass and the hazmat is kinda ridiculous.