Shipping Knives in U.S.

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Cold Steel's website notes: "Do not send your knife back by way of the U.S. Post Office. We recommend you send it U.P.S. insured." Is this because the postal employees are more likely to rip it off or is it illegal to ship knives via the Post Office?
 
This is the wording of the US Postal law......"g) All knives having a blade which opens automatically (1) by
hand pressure applied to a button or other device in the handle of
the knife, or (2) by operation of inertia, gravity, or both, are
nonmailable and shall not be deposited in or carried by the mails
or delivered by any officer or employee of the Postal Service. Such
knives may be conveyed in the mails, under such regulations as the
Postal Service shall prescribe "

Any switchbalde or knife that can be FLICKED open can not be mailed. Spyderco paid over a half million in fines and lost product 9 months ago as a fine.....illegal=yes

for the whole story scroll down to title 18 in the middle of the page......http://pweb.netcom.com/~brlevine/fedswitch.txt
 
i would suggest ups employees are far more likely to rip of packages than postal workers.

the post office has its own police dept, and tampering falls under federal jurisdiction.

ups packages and fed ex packages arent technically mail, iirc. after i had fed ex rip off a sebenza, and my co worker had ups rip off a wilson combat 1911, i refuse to ship by either company unless absolutely necessary, ie overnight delivery or switchblade.
 
This is incredible. I don't know who writes the postal regulations, but if a product is legal, it ought to be mailable, and that includes firearms. The judgment against Spyderco was unjust and is indicative of the type of government that the founding fathers warned us to avoid. It's a shame, really, when we realize that our own government has become the master and we are but the servants.

It may just be a matter of time before tactical knives come to the attention of the government. They're much more rugged than switchblades, they open as quickly, and most of the time the people who use them are entirely responsible in their use. In short, I wonder why they're not already banned.
 
Confederate said:
This is incredible. I don't know who writes the postal regulations, but if a product is legal, it ought to be mailable, and that includes firearms. The judgment against Spyderco was unjust and is indicative of the type of government that the founding fathers warned us to avoid. It's a shame, really, when we realize that our own government has become the master and we are but the servants.

It may just be a matter of time before tactical knives come to the attention of the government. They're much more rugged than switchblades, they open as quickly, and most of the time the people who use them are entirely responsible in their use. In short, I wonder why they're not already banned.
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The Postal Service writes most of its own regulations, but in most cases where an item is legal but restricted from the mail it is the result of a law passed by Congress. This holds true for things like firearms, certain knives, drug-related paraphernalia, lock picks, animal fighting gear, etc. Section 601.11 of the Domestic Mail Manual lists these items. If you read through it you will see that the reason most of the stuff is restricted is listed as a section of the US Code (written by Congress).
 
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