shipping about 75 rounds of loose rifle ammo cost?

[Dan in NY]

Thinking of selling a 75 pc. lot of wartime Chinese-made 6.5 Japanese ammo (see post on Japanese rifles forum here).. I never really shipped ammo before and can someone please tell me approx. what UPS will charge to ship about 75 rounds, loose? probably will weigh 2 pounds or so and about the size of a softball, when all packed up. I'm in southern NY. I have no destination yet, so an approximation of shipping will work. ie. $10? $20?


I want to see if its worth my while.

regards

Dan

[dave]

It will be expensive! First off, you must go to a UPS main shipping point, their franchise stores are not allowed to ship ammo (or guns). They consider it a hazard item. Couple years ago I sent my B-in-L. a 50 rd. box of 380 ammo (was hard to get at the time). With all the sh*t charges they tacked on, cost around 29 bucks! Even charged a 'destination delivery charge'! Never again for me! You have to declare its ammo, if you do not and get caught----who knows? Fed. law?

[joem]

Doesn't seem worth the effort to me. Way too much trouble to ship ammo in this neck of the woods.

[John Sukey]

this has been caused by those thousands of ammo and powder explosions in UPS trucks that never happened. Another thing to thank the dimocrats for.

a few years ago I shipped around 8 boxes of 30-06 blanks to a guy. No hazardous shipping charges cause they didn't have any EVIL Bullets in them!;)

[Dan in NY]

Ok....will try and sell them locally.


thanks all..

[dogtag]

I have the same problem with forty loaded rounds of 577 Snyder.
If I can't sell them through a semi local gun shop that does consignments,
I'll have to unload and sell the cases.

[Rotor]

I have always gone to my account at UPS .com, created the shipment, printed the shipper and an ORM-D label and handed it to a UPS truck driver when he stops by at work. He just scans it into the system and takes it. I did drop off at the hub once. It was all packed up with a shipper printed from online and an ORM-D label. I just handed it over. One scan and it disappeared.

If you ship guns and ammo more than twice a year it is very easy to maintain an online account w UPS. You, not them enter the info and print and wrap the package. You can schedule a pick up ( extra charge) or just give it to any UPS truck you happen across. Just make sure that scan it. It registers as in transit via email within 5 mins. Then you have full tracking. ORM-D label is what ammo needs to be labeled as. I have even peeled them off old ammo shipments and re-used them.


JR