Posted on 09/11/2022 9:57:46 AM PDT by thegagline
UPS has stepped up its anti-gun campaign by requiring online sellers to ship an average of 50 handguns daily to use its 2nd Day Air service.
Sellers who do not ship at least 350 handguns a week risk losing their shipping accounts. Under the new agreement, UPS is only required to give customers a ten-day notice before cutting them off from the shipping service. The volume necessary means that most online retailers and manufacturers are now cut off from shipping guns through the carrier unless the handgun is shipped using the expensive Next Day Air service.
The notice was sent to UPS customers that deal in firearms. UPS has been under pressure from anti-gun groups and politicians to stop doing business with the gun industry. This new move appears to be a way that UPS can cut ties to most of the industry without jeopardizing its major accounts.
The letter also references updating its policies to be in line with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and state regulations. This reference most likely refers to new rules surrounding privately manufactured firearms (PMF). But UPS goes much further than required by law.
UPS has been at the center of controversy recently when it canceled the account of a seller of 80% lowers. The shipping giant notified Ghost Firearms of Florida that it would stop shipping from the company. It also told the online retailer that it would “seize and destroy” packages currently en route to customers leaving Ghost Firearms scrambling for options.
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Recently Giffords sent a letter to FedEx and UPS asking the companies to adopt “a policy of refusing to ship dangerous firearm products that are fueling the epidemic of gun violence in America.” ***
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Think we can vote our way out?
Nope.
Head down, collect the money they stole from you, fill up up your stocks of guns and ammo with foldin' money.
Just thinking out loud here, but I wonder if UPS has a very large delivery contract with the government (i.e., Deep State) that has been threatened.
Thieving UPS employees will be disappointed.
Agreed. I would trust UPS people shipping firearms as much as I can pick up the CN Tower or bottle all of Niagara Falls.
Is FED EX still an option for this kind of shipping?
Sounds like virtue signaling to me, that UPS has this new policy so they can virtue signal opposition to guns, and by implication, support for gun control.
What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.
When I’m threatening to be done with UPS and encourage all my friends to do the same.
Who are they virtue signaling to? Only a small minority of Americans believe in strict gun control. Do they really believe they have that much of a monopoly to piss off gun owners? We might want to buy stock in FedEx.
There is a business oppertunity, CPS, conservative parcel service, your firearms are shipped safe with us.
Gonna really hurt the retailers who sell on Gunbroker.
Didn’t I read somewhere that UPS was having deep financial trouble and probably shouldn’t be pissing off half the country? Or was that FedEx?
Why?
Use USPS, I believe pricing is competitive even with recent rate increases, insurance and tracking are available, as well as restricted and delivery confirmation service.
Die, corporate scum.
Buy a lot more. Buy American made.
I think that’s called fascism.
Eventually congress will have to step in and establish some federal commerce laws to protect legal businesses. A fairness doctrine. There is something wrong with companies choosing to do business based on politics, which is what this is down to.
All these big companies already f’d up as much as possible with the BLM swindle. They might as well just do whatever they want now..
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