When you ship out to the match the ORM-D has to go ground. That marking isn't proper for air shipment so plan your delivery time accordingly. You can't "2 day" or "overnight" the ammo.
Funny you mention that...
Had to ship some ammo out for an event I was attending. Went to the UPS depot, they gave a delivery time/date that was a little tight - doable, but tight. Asked if there was any way to get it there faster. Guy says "yep, we'll ship it 3-day priority." That was a Thursday, before a holiday weekend. Needed to be there no later than the following Thursday. Was told it would be there Tuesday. Sweet. Paid the extra, and went about my merry.
Friday morning, I'm literally checking my luggage at the airport, and I get a text from the person who is supposed to be receiving the ammo for me... they'd got a package delivery notification from UPS, saying my ammo wouldn't be there til late Monday... the day we finished up and I headed *home*. I had a very tough time keeping my happy face on long enough to get thru TSA check-in, and then proceeded to tear a strip off of UPS customer service in the waiting area. Turns out the package got to Redmond, WA by Friday, where someone wised up and said, "Crap, we can't send ORM-D stuff via 3-day *AIR*"... and so it sat on the loading dock til Tuesday (after the Monday holiday), and was now somewhere in the Midwest on a semi headed for Kentucky. I needed the packaged *that day*, or the whole trip (and a lot of other things) were going to be wasted - literally. Nothing to be done for it, so sorry, etc. etc.
Got on site, scrambling to arrange for bullets, powder and primer to reload (several times) the extra rounds I'd brought in my luggage. Then we get another UPS package delivery notification... my ammo was delivered, Friday afternoon, to the place it was supposed to be. Huh? That morning it'd been on a semi headed for Kentucky?
Found the package, opened up, all good. Then I noticed... all the ORM-D stickers had been removed - as in cut off. Apparently the package got to Kentucky, and some well-meaning employee found out about the row over the missed delivery, and said "I got this!". Cut the labels off, and threw it on a plane. Problem solved...
Now why can't *I* get away with that...
