USPS Crazy Happy Ending!

[Kiwishooter]

I had a friend that combined a lot of items I purchased and then repackaged them and forwarded them to me. Tools, machinery items etc, some pretty weighty stuff.
He used to hot glue the boxes shut then hot glue cardboard on all sided then use strapping tape, nothing ever broke out of the boxes, but boy did I have fun getting into them.
He told me always package something so that it can be thrown from one end of a container to the other several time and not break open, that's how the postal workers handle them

 

[GotRDid]

My postal delivery woman knows more about me than my kids.
Thankfully, she's a pro-2a person.

Same!
That’s why she gets a Texas Roadhouse Gift Card every year!

 

[Mark W]

As far the post office knowing whose bullets those were, my mail carrier once handed be a flat rate box and said”your brass made it”. I was kind of surprised, but after a short conversation, she knew who all of the reloaders in the area were.

 

[DShortt]

Trust me. THEY know EVERYTHING!!

Except how to fulfill their responsibilities correctly and efficiently, that is.

And to be clear, I'm speaking of Feds in general, not the USPS.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

My UPS guy always says don’t shoot it all at once.

 

[divingin]

He used to hot glue the boxes shut then hot glue cardboard on all sided then use strapping tape, nothing ever broke out of the boxes, but boy did I have fun getting into them.

A friend of mine spent time in the military on Okinawa. As he was about to return to the US, he went out and bought a bunch of dinner plates and stuff, before realizing he had to ship all that stuff back. He ended up in the shop of this old Okinawan guy, who stacked everything up, walked around it looking at it, rearranged it, looked at it some more, then whipped out a boxcutter and cut and slit and folded sheets of cardboard to enfold all the stuff. When he was done, there was single cube, all held together with no glue or tape. My friend said he was amazed at the guys talent and vision, and watched the guys' proud smile as he walked the box over to an automatic strapping machine and with several loud "Ka-chunks", wrapped several plastic bands around the box. The guy was prouder of his strapping machine than he was his artistry.

 

[Oso]

I got introduced to my neighbor down the street when UPS delivered his shipment of primers to my house. It so happened that I was also waiting on a delivery of primers at the same time. You can imagine my surprise when I opened the package to find 3x the amount of primers... Jack Pot!!! I quickly figured it out the mistake when I looked at the delivery address.

This has now happened several times. We get a chuckle and complain about the price of reloading components.

 

[NorCalMikie]

I have a habit of opening envelopes "without" looking at the mailing address. In MY box so it must be mine???
Last one I did that way was DIVORVCE papers for the neighbor. I look more carefully now.

 

[KMart]

A friend of mine spent time in the military on Okinawa. As he was about to return to the US, he went out and bought a bunch of dinner plates and stuff, before realizing he had to ship all that stuff back. He ended up in the shop of this old Okinawan guy, who stacked everything up, walked around it looking at it, rearranged it, looked at it some more, then whipped out a boxcutter and cut and slit and folded sheets of cardboard to enfold all the stuff. When he was done, there was single cube, all held together with no glue or tape. My friend said he was amazed at the guys talent and vision, and watched the guys' proud smile as he walked the box over to an automatic strapping machine and with several loud "Ka-chunks", wrapped several plastic bands around the box. The guy was prouder of his strapping machine than he was his artistry.

I would bet that he was also a master at Origami

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

I had a friend that combined a lot of items I purchased and then repackaged them and forwarded them to me. Tools, machinery items etc, some pretty weighty stuff.
He used to hot glue the boxes shut then hot glue cardboard on all sided then use strapping tape, nothing ever broke out of the boxes, but boy did I have fun getting into them.
He told me always package something so that it can be thrown from one end of a container to the other several time and not break open, that's how the postal workers handle them

That sound like how the Ballistic Idiot packs his bullets.

 

[NorCalMikie]

A little OT but, sent a PO Money order off for a kit I wanted. Went to the PO, filled it out, put it in an envelope and dropped in the mail slot.
A week later, it never got there. Couple more weeks later, still didn't get there.
I KNOW the seller thought I was a 100% FLAKE!! Maybe a month later, was informed that the MO finally got there.
The seller lived about a block from the PO, envelope sat in the PO all that time till someone figured out I had transposed the house #s and it was just down the street.
Patience IS a virtue and old age makes you write things the wrong way at times.

 

[PhilC]

My postal delivery woman knows more about me than my kids.
Thankfully, she's a pro-2a person.

Mine too, and she knows I shoot and cast. PO is 3mi away and when I have a heavy shipment arriving I stop in, tell them to call and I'll come pick up from the back door, they don't even have to lug the stuff inside main PO. My rural carrier lady and I are on a first name basis.

 

[FNSafari]

A couple, three weeks ago I bought some bullets off the Classifieds, sent payment and the box arrived broken. There were 30 some bullets still rolling around in the box. Crap!!! I notified the seller and he very graciously put my payment back in the mail to me. A bummer for both of us!
This morning, I went down to check my mailbox and found his envelope sitting under a doubled plastic bag of bullets with an apology from the Post Office printed on it! Almost all of the missing bullets were in the bag!
This is wonderful, yet perplexing!
How did they know a bunch of loose bullets were meant for me? I got the broken box a week ago, so all they had was 400 loose bullets rolling around.
My wife is a bit perturbed! She thinks that “everybody knows” that I’m the local “gun nut” and, given the current climate, government representatives will soon be knocking on the front door. She’s a bit reactionary, but she does have a point. How did they know?

The box:View attachment 1346682
A week later, the bullets:View attachment 1346681View attachment 1346683

 

[FNSafari]

The USPS flat rate boxes are pretty good for light items, but IMO they are way too light duty for anything heavy. One has to assume that the box will be "airborn" numerous times on its journey from seller to buyer. You want to see how bullets should be shipped? Buy some from Randy Robinett!

 

[divingin]

The USPS flat rate boxes are pretty good for light items, but IMO they are way too light duty for anything heavy. One has to assume that the box will be "airborn" numerous times on its journey from seller to buyer. You want to see how bullets should be shipped? Buy some from Randy Robinett!

I've had to ask Bear Creek Bullets to break shipments up into < 40# boxes (I offer to pay the extra charge), as they'll cram whatever fits in there. Not a problem with packaging, as they tend to use 2x the weight of cardboard in tape-wrapping the box; it's more that I try to avoid killing off my postal worker. 6-10 thousand pistol bullets get heavy.

 

[jelenko]

The USPS flat rate boxes are pretty good for light items, but IMO they are way too light duty for anything heavy. One has to assume that the box will be "airborn" numerous times on its journey from seller to buyer. You want to see how bullets should be shipped? Buy some from Randy Robinett!

I ship my 223 brass to have it processed. Only about 20lb in a medium flat rate box. But, I use strapping tape on all edges/corners and across the flat surfaces.

I used to use regular packing tape but went to strapping tape to be sure.