In this particular instance when I presented the rifle for shipment, with pre-paid shipping, before I could get a word in edgewise, I was admonished (loudly) for not leaving the package in a semi-public (un-monitored) area of the counter designated for pre-paids. Now I understand why pre-paids can be pooled up for later processing but I'm not leaving any shipment worth over $700 on a counter without a receipt, and where the next person could just walk off with it unnoticed. As I've already said, it did not improve thereon.
And, I'll add that when the next words out of my mouth were asking if she would scan the label and furnish me with a receipt, I was told NO, she said she did not have the equipment to do that.
Funny, the PO that did accept the shipment had no problem scanning the label and handing me a receipt, nor has this PO in the past.
At this time I believe the clerk simply did not like me, was having a bad, both, or her dog bit her earlier. I'm going to take it as a bad day and move on. Her behavior will not deter me from doing what I did again in the future.