You may not believe how much it costs to buy percussion caps in New Jersey

[Louis of PA]

My friend Bob just emailed me this info; he's been looking for number 11 percussion caps for standard nipple size:

"You won’t believe this – a $5.99 box of 100 CCI percussion caps have the following add-on fees in NJ:

1) A HAZMAT fee of $25.00
2) A $5.00 shipping fee

Total cost $35.99 for a $6.00 item

"Also in NJ there are no WalMart stores that stock #11 percussion caps – they are stock items in Pennsylvania for $6.00 off the shelf.

"Please see if you can pick a box up for me somewhere.

"This friggin’ State is a goner!"

Socialists don't need to pass laws to put us out of business; all they need to do is make things unaffordable or too much bother, until we lose interest.
Louis of PA

[da gimp]

Posts like this remind me to be grateful that I am living in Missouri..................

[older than dirt]

That`s what happens when you live in the "Peoples Republic of New Jerseystan". Get out now.

[Doug Rammel]

The hazmat fee is added to all shipments. That's everywhere not just new jersey.

[holdover]

You are ordering them correct and not buying them in a store, if so do yourself a favor and buy a sleeve of 1000, the hazmat fee is the same for 1K or more and slpit them up with your friends.

[JB White]

When buying from a store the hazmat fee is divided up amongst the dealers entire order which makes the off-the-shelf prices so much more attractive.

[PhillipM]

On our local board we do group buys from vendors like powder valley and split the shipping and hazmat.

[John Sukey]

Makes you wonder just how many mailtrucks blew upin the past with those horrible things. OR how many cans of black powder blew up? answer, NONE I have heard of powder mills doing that,and fireworks factories doing that, BUT NEVER any in shipping. Just another way to extort money.