So FedEx stopped by.....

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Driver came into the store and put a package on the counter, said a hearty "Stay safe!" and left.

I opened the package to discover an ffl transfer from a dealer with whom I've never done business.

First surprise, no signature asked for by FedEx.
Second surprise, no "Adult signature required" on the shipping box.
Third surprise first time in a long time I remember getting a firearm in from a dealer with a handwritten receipt.

Nope, not an April Fool's joke. CZ Scorpion Micro just left on my counter and best wishes from FedEx. I've seen ammo shipped that way, too. Trying to imagine it just being left at our door if we were quarantining or something.
 
Wow...... Don't they have a certain procedure that requires more than just that ? Twenty something tears ago a LGS where I know the owner had a package with a gun in it dropped off at his door on a weekday before he opened up at mid-day. Right on the sidewalk at the door. In a small strip plaza with several other businesses. Shop owner said he got a heck of a surprise when he showed up that day. Also said he called up the delivery company, ( I forgot who it was; either UPS or FedEx ), and raised a ruckus with them. Don't recall the rest of the details but it was lucky that package was still there when he came in.
 
Wow...... Don't they have a certain procedure that requires more than just that ? Twenty something tears ago a LGS where I know the owner had a package with a gun in it dropped off at his door on a weekday before he opened up at mid-day. Right on the sidewalk at the door. In a small strip plaza with several other businesses. Shop owner said he got a heck of a surprise when he showed up that day. Also said he called up the delivery company, ( I forgot who it was; either UPS or FedEx ), and raised a ruckus with them. Don't recall the rest of the details but it was lucky that package was still there when he came in.
Usually the shipper puts a notation on the label (as we do when we ship out) about an adult signature required.
Then again, the shipper, in this case, didn't have a computer generated receipt, it was handwritten.
 
FedEx did that with one of my revolvers once. When I saw it was delivered on the website I ran home.

Didn’t really want an $1100 revolver sitting in the porch.
Yeah, no telling what an unmonitored gun could do on its own! According to those anti-gunners they can just leap up and start killing people.

Seriously, with all the doorbell cam evidence of porch piracy gone wild, you'd think they'd be a wee bit more cautious with guns. Then again, unless it's somehow indicated on the package, they don't know if it's a firearm or that new tool set you ordered from Home Depot.com
 
Yeah, no telling what an unmonitored gun could do on its own! According to those anti-gunners they can just leap up and start killing people.

Seriously, with all the doorbell cam evidence of porch piracy gone wild, you'd think they'd be a wee bit more cautious with guns. Then again, unless it's somehow indicated on the package, they don't know if it's a firearm or that new tool set you ordered from Home Depot.com
Yep. The box was shipped from S&W so you’d think S&W would’ve required a signature.
 
The last gun I bought off of Gunbroker got shipped to the FFL's house. My tracking number showed to be delivered, and things got weird when I went to his store to do the transfer. When we finally figured it out, he rather franticly called his wife to run home and get it, which was in a box on his front porch.
 
FedEx did that with one of my revolvers once. When I saw it was delivered on the website I ran home.

Didn’t really want an $1100 revolver sitting in the porch.
When Ruger sent my GP100 back after repairing it, FedEx left it outside my garage door which I found when I got home from work.
 
We're going to be seeing a lot more deliveries with minimal (or no) human contact, because of "social distancing."

This is one of many changes coming in the business environment. The epidemic could be the final nail in the coffin of traditional brick-and-mortar commerce, with ordering being done online and delivery through centralized fulfillment centers. The gun industry will be one of the few industries partially exempt from this, only because the FFL regulatory system precludes it from going 100% online.
 
Driver came into the store and put a package on the counter, said a hearty "Stay safe!" and left.

I opened the package to discover an ffl transfer from a dealer with whom I've never done business.

First surprise, no signature asked for by FedEx.
Second surprise, no "Adult signature required" on the shipping box.
Third surprise first time in a long time I remember getting a firearm in from a dealer with a handwritten receipt.

Nope, not an April Fool's joke. CZ Scorpion Micro just left on my counter and best wishes from FedEx. I've seen ammo shipped that way, too. Trying to imagine it just being left at our door if we were quarantining or something.
Hope the package contained instructions on who the new owner was.
 
Driver came into the store and put a package on the counter, said a hearty "Stay safe!" and left.

I opened the package to discover an ffl transfer from a dealer with whom I've never done business.

First surprise, no signature asked for by FedEx.
Second surprise, no "Adult signature required" on the shipping box.
Third surprise first time in a long time I remember getting a firearm in from a dealer with a handwritten receipt.

Nope, not an April Fool's joke. CZ Scorpion Micro just left on my counter and best wishes from FedEx. I've seen ammo shipped that way, too. Trying to imagine it just being left at our door if we were quarantining or something.
Happens here all of the time.
 
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You wouldn't be surprised if you lived in Arkansas. I had a $400 box of ammo on my front porch 2 days ago. Think it was UPS. I live on a dead end road with maybe 5 houses in a 1/2 mile, so there is not a lot of traffic. Got camera surveillance too.
 
Probably 15 years ago, I’d been away on business for 5 days. When I got home I found a box from the CMP on my porch with my new Garand. Glad I live in a safe neighborhood. I guess sometimes the drivers are just lazy...
 
I had two instances when I tried to hold a shipment at the local UPS hub so I could pick it up and ran into flak...

The first was a C&R Mauser 98k I ordered from the now-defunct Samco Global Arms in Fla. I paid, they daid they shipped it but it was “list” in shipping for a while. In the weeks that passed, my house sold and I moved... while UPS tracking showed it in route for over a week and a half. UPS wouldn’t hold it at the hub without the shipper asking to do so, and Samco said they couldn’t reroute a C&R as it had to go to the address on the FFL.

I got UPS to hold it when I told them it was a gun and it’s going to the wrong house. Then they held it for me at the hub and I signed for it there.,

The second involved an AR 15 upper that I ordered and it sat on backorder for a while before it was sent to my office. During the lag time the County went ahead and installed x-ray Equipment in my office lobby and added armed security. (At that time the lower floors were civil courtrooms.)

Again, UPS wouldn’t hold it at the hub and the shipper wouldn’t reroute it. I finally got UPS to hold it when I spoke to a supervisor and told them that if it was brought to my office their driver would be arrested for bringing a gun into the Courthouse.
It was held at the hub, no problem!

Stay safe.
 
Yep. The box was shipped from S&W so you’d think S&W would’ve required a signature.
Maybe, but S&W does not advertise that it is a gun; return address with my revolver was from SAW, a non-descript address; done to keep thefts to a minimum
 
Yes, I saw the news article about all of the shippers basically ignoring the "adult signature required" label because of the current crisis. However, it's nothing new. More than three-quarters of the time, whether a packaged was shipped to my home or to a store where I was working, the "adult signature required" requirement was simply ignored. I've followed delivery trucks down the road and watched as they simply threw out packages when they got near a mailbox. Some packages were close but others missed by twenty feet or more, going into drainage ditches, etc. And this is an area where the typical mail box is a couple of hundred feet from the house. The best solution I've found, as someone else mentioned, is to speak with the delivery driver, even give him/her a few bucks as insurance for a safe delivery. Unfortunately, that stopped working when the delivery companies broke up driver-specific routes a few years back. So now, I just have everything sent to a friend's business address that has someone there pretty much all day, every day. Even then, there are times that drivers have left packages on the sidewalk even though the store is open!
 
Could be FedEx isn’t requiring signatures. My job we get a lot of FedEx and ground, express and freight have all refused to sign any corona virus papers, answer questions about corona or get their temperature taken before entering which is my companies policy. They also said they won’t sign it make anyone sign.
 
I've had two Kreighoff shotguns left at the front door without a signature by Fedex ground.
The front door is on the other side of the building.
It was purely the fault of Fedex ground. Fedex Air always rings the bell and holds it if there's nobody at the facility. Our UPS guy is perfect. He's a pleasure and a welcome sight.
 
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