Post Office Inspection
Hey odd experience with the post office today and I wanted to see if anyone else has run into it. I’m an FFL shipping a long gun to another FFL, packed properly, pre labeled with signature required, everything as required.
Post office asked what was in the box and as soon as I said firearm insisted that they needed to open the box to “inspect the barrel” and check for ammo.
She opened it at the front counter in the middle of the post office and the lady started waving it around flagging everyone in the post office while “inspecting it”. The rifle was an old Winchester 100 that they insisted couldn’t be shipped “loaded” with the empty magazine in it. She also tried to take the magazine apart entirely to “check for ammo” and said I should have “removed the barrel” before shipping.
I’ve been shipping firearms for almost a decade and never had anything close to this happen. She insisted that it wasn’t new regulations and her coworker just said that they were “cracking down” on existing regulations.
TLDR: anyone else have bizarre and unsafe post office experiences lately or is mine just special?