USPS no longer shipping knives

When shipping something valuable - like we are discussing here - I have made a few crates out of scrap 1X2 and 1/4" plywood. The item goes inside, well padded and in a ziplock plastic bag, the top is attached with woodscrews. The whole shebang goes into a non-descript corrugated box with packing material to look like every other package in their system. I declare it machine parts, camping tools, anything non-descript. What I'm doing is legal, I just don't want to get any conversations like we're talking about. :mad:
 
- go armed with a printoff of the usps regs & ask for a supervisor if you have a problem.

WATCH OUT!

This is the post office we're talking about!

You go in 'armed' with a printoff of postal regulations ... the crazy clerk may be armed with something a little more ... well, noisy.
 
WATCH OUT!

This is the post office we're talking about!

You go in 'armed' with a printoff of postal regulations ... the crazy clerk may be armed with something a little more ... well, noisy.


Uh not legally they won't be. It's a felony to be armed on Postal property unless a law enforcement officer on duty or a Postal Inspector or Postal Police officer.
 
Uh not legally they won't be. It's a felony to be armed on Postal property unless a law enforcement officer on duty or a Postal Inspector or Postal Police officer.

Of course, that will prevent a crazed worker from shooting everyone in the building. ;) Isn't that a felony too?
 
I always just answer no to the dangerous question they ask. Is anyone sure that that is the correct answer. (Assuming of course it is properly packed.)
 
Aww, comon now, not everyone who works for the PO is a jerkoff like the clerk in question. Not by a long shot. Allot of those people are ex-military - and for every jerkoff there are ~3 good people who none of us talk about because they do their job properly & without hasseling anyone.

Asking for a supervisor when you have a problem like that is the way to go IMO.
 
UPS will take longarms, handguns have to be shipped fedex. I've never had a problem shipping knives USPS.

Pat
 
It must I haven't heard about any Post Office employees being shot by a coworker lately.

Well, at least since January, 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Sherrill

Goleta, California, in 2006
Another incident [1] occurred on the evening of January 30, 2006, at a large postal processing facility in Goleta, near Santa Barbara, California. Police said that Jennifer San Marco, a former postal employee, killed six postal employees, including one critically wounded who later died, before committing suicide with a handgun.
Police later also identified a seventh victim; Beverly Graham, 54, was found dead in a condominium complex in Goleta where San Marco once lived. [2].
The other dead included Charlotte Colton, 44; Ze Fairchild, 37, and Maleka Higgins, 28, both of Santa Barbara; Nicola Grant, 42, and Guadalupe Swartz, 52, both of Lompoc; and Dexter Shannon, 57, of Oxnard.
According to media reports, the Postal Service had forced San Marco to retire in 2003 because of her worsening mental problems. Her choice of victims also may have been racially motivated; San Marco had a previous history of racial prejudice, and tried to obtain a business license for a newspaper of her own ideas, called Racist Times, in New Mexico.
This incident is believed to be the deadliest workplace shooting ever carried out in the United States by a woman.
 
My PO only asks the basic flammable, liquid, dangerous questions on anything I send. I just say no. Never offer up what you are sending. If they ask, simply ask them why they need to know that and if it is legal for them to ask that.

Easiest thing now days it to say Ebay junk... lol...
 
I haven't heard about any Post Office employees being shot by a coworker lately.

Jennifer San Marco, a former postal employee, [...] the Postal Service had forced San Marco to retire in 2003 because of her worsening mental problems.

USPS employs something like three-quarters of a million people. All over the country. A wide range of jobs and capabilities.

And still managed to identify and eliminate a problem employee.

Too bad she was so far out she was homicidal. But she was not typical of the people working there ... she was no longer a coworker.
 
I have had a knife arrive one time with the tip sticking through the cardboard box. If a knife has a sheath, fine. But sometimes I buy knives which are being sold without a sheath, for example a kitchen knife, or an unfinished blade blank which has been taped in cardboard. I would hate to think of some postal employee getting injured by it.

I have also have had packages arrive which were obviously smashed by having other heavy packages slammed on top of them. It's easy to think that the force could drive an unsheathed knife into its packing material.

So all of us who are mailing knives, especially ones without a proper sheath, take extra care that they are packed very securely before mailing. I usually fold a couple pieces of thick cardboard in front of the tip, or tape the blade flat against a longer piece of stiff material.
 
Gotta agree with Pappy there.

By packaging well, and demanding that others package well we can help be sure that that USPS doesn't quit shipping knives.

On a more humorous note, I've had at least half a dozen people complain about my overpackaging.:D

what can I say? a roll or two of packing tape might help keep honest folks honest, and gives 'em a good ten minutes or so of entertainment and edge testing to get the package open.:D
 
Ah, I've also cut myself severely trying to remove excess clear tape from the handle of a large golok in it's sheath, I pulled the tape and the entire blade slid out of the sheath. My finger happened to be in the way......
 
any body had any idea where Yangdu got those fancy triangular priority mail
shipping package fo Kuks? my local post office don't have it in stock
 
Coolest part about the triangle boxes....they are FREE. :thumbup:

and they come shipped right to your door.

Just got in a bunch of boxes a week or so ago. (which is why 99% of what I ship goes through USPS)
 
The funniest shipment I ever saw in one of those was when a man rushed up to our post office about 9:00 at night, desperate to pick up his Express Mail. Waaayy after closing time ... but one of the clerks went inside & got it. It was the big triangular tube full of live Maine lobsters for his dinner party.
 
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