Shipping ammo question

[bearpaws]

The ups main terminals can ship boxes with appropriate small arms ammo marking on the boxes

 

[ronny]

So did they finally ship it for you. No one will allow ammo on their airplanes and USPS ships a lot on planes, as do the others.

Yes, they did. That was the "Oops!". All it takes is to package it properly and mark it ORM-D.

 

[dak]

Live ammo has to have the ORM-D label with cartridges, small arms.

You should tell a number of big name places that because they've seemed to forget that. Palmetto State Armory is a big one, all their ammo has regular ORM-D stickers on it from what I've seen lately. I've seen SGAmmo do it too. I think ULINE stopped carrying the sticker.

DOT regulations are switching from ORM-D Catridges, Small Arms label to U.N. diamond label 1.4s but it hasn't taken affect yet and won't until next year IIRC. A lot of ammo manufacturers have started putting the UN diamond on their cardboard but I've seen some retailers even cover up those 1.4S diamond labels with water activated tape and/or the wrong type of ORM-D label.

 

[ronny]

My label was Cartridges, Small Arms which is, as you indicate, the new requirement. However, I think I read somewhere that you can still use the old ones until 2013. I did a lot of reading, so I could easily be confused.

 

[Fyrtwuck]

This reminds me of the adventure I had sending an UZI to Vector Arms for repairs a few years ago.

 

[ronny]

Yeah! Inexperienced (or clueless) workers can make life tedious.

 

[dak]

My label was Cartridges, Small Arms which is, as you indicate, the new requirement. However, I think I read somewhere that you can still use the old ones until 2013. I did a lot of reading, so I could easily be confused.

That's the old(current) requirement actually. The new requirement that is mandatory as of next year is the 1.4S diamond label.

 

[ronny]

Yeah, you're probably right. I seem to remember seeing one of the diamond labels.