FedEx/UPS schedule delivery

lazarus · Apr 17, 2018

Hey, does anyone know if I can call up USPS or FedEx and have them deliver a package on a specific date (on or after it would arrive normally)?

Hopefully in a few days to a couple of weeks I’ll have a CMP Garand coming my way and I may be ordering my first C&R firearm (with my C&R license which should be to me this week). I work from home two days a week. So having those delivered on a day I am home, even if it means waiting a few days to get it, would be a lot more convenient than trying to have it held at a distribution center or having to take part or all of a day off work to be home to sign for it.

Or am I better off asking for it to be held at the distribution facility and just swinging by after work to sign for it?

PS No idea how the C&R will be shipped to me, but I think the place I am looking at does UPS even with C&R handguns

iH8DemLibz · Apr 17, 2018

Can't speak to FED-EX, but UPS has what's called My UPS Choice.

You can arrange all sorts of things through it. You have to sign-up first.

Or try an 800 number and ask them to hold the firearm at the distribution center.

MacGuns · Apr 17, 2018

Fed-Ex has a similar program. You can have them delivered to one of the local Fed-Ex/Kinkos stores and you can pick up at your convenience.

Mightydog · Apr 17, 2018

USPS or UPS? Not with the regular mail (USPS). With UPS and FEDEX I was able to have them hold my packages for pickup if I was not going to be home.

lazarus · Apr 17, 2018

Doh! Yeah I meant UPS.

Okay, thanks. I have a UPS account and finally just signed up for a FedEx one. I have to poke through the UPS options next time I get something shipped to me using them. FedEx it looks the closest store front is 30 miles away (that isn’t a Walgreens in store, I assume they won’t hold a firearm there).

That’s a pain in the butt, but might be worth the drive not to take a full day off work or if I...uh...well something I want to slip in to my safe as it were. I mean, not that my wife would be mad. Um...per say. Though I think the closest UPS shipping facility is much closer to me, so if it gets sent UPS if I can get it held there instead that might make more sense. I mean, my wife knows about the CMP Garand, so paying $5 or so to have it delivered on a day I am working from home makes sense.

Whatever C&R thingie I get (thinking M57) might just be easier all around to have it held wherever it can be held and swing by after work to sign for it. I mean, this time.

ShafTed · Apr 17, 2018

FYI, some FFLs ship C&R handguns by USPS Priority Mail. I have received more than one this way. Still have to sign, if no one is available they will leave a delivery notice and you go to the PO to sign & retrieve.

KJackson · Apr 17, 2018

lazarus said:
Doh! Yeah I meant UPS.

Okay, thanks. I have a UPS account and finally just signed up for a FedEx one. I have to poke through the UPS options next time I get something shipped to me using them. FedEx it looks the closest store front is 30 miles away (that isn’t a Walgreens in store, I assume they won’t hold a firearm there).

That’s a pain in the butt, but might be worth the drive not to take a full day off work or if I...uh...well something I want to slip in to my safe as it were. I mean, not that my wife would be mad. Um...per say. Though I think the closest UPS shipping facility is much closer to me, so if it gets sent UPS if I can get it held there instead that might make more sense. I mean, my wife knows about the CMP Garand, so paying $5 or so to have it delivered on a day I am working from home makes sense.

Whatever C&R thingie I get (thinking M57) might just be easier all around to have it held wherever it can be held and swing by after work to sign for it. I mean, this time.

With the UPS account, you can schedule a later date for delivery. I did that for a mattress that I ordered that was going to be arriving before the bed.

knastera · Apr 17, 2018

MacMoov said:
Fed-Ex has a similar program. You can have them delivered to one of the local Fed-Ex/Kinkos stores and you can pick up at your convenience.

Agreed. I just had them do that with my SKS. Once I got the tracking number and the package was en route, I had it held at my local FedEx/Kinkos.

lazarus · Apr 17, 2018

Awesome, thanks!

Also, I finally got my FFL-03! Ordered an M57 15 minutes later. Now the, hopefully short, wait begins. I wish I had gotten it 3 years ago (my FFL03 I mean).

Melnic · Apr 18, 2018

My best luck with BOTH UPS and Fedx is to have it redirected to a will call pick up. I'm close to the Burtonsville UPS center or the Laurel FedX store or Linthicum FedX place.
My CMP garands were directed to Linthicum FedX place to pick up during lunchtime.

I don't trust UPS to actually get an adult signature, they all too often, just drop it off anyway.

H-Bar · Apr 18, 2018

I had a FedEx redirected my package to Walgreens for a pickup because I would not be home when it was scheduled. I was able to pick the package up at 7:00pm too.

sxs · May 14, 2018

MacMoov said:
Fed-Ex has a similar program. You can have them delivered to one of the local Fed-Ex/Kinkos stores and you can pick up at your convenience.

No, no, no...can't be a store. Has to be a distribution center for guns or ammo.
I have used a distribution center for firearms and ammo...no problem. But one time I inadvertently tried to hold ammo at a Kinko's and they immediately shipped it back to the seller. Fortunately I was able to jump through so hoops and gave the shipment redirected to a distribution center. Neither allow 'dangerous' items to be held in ' non secure' locations.

Threeband · May 14, 2018

CMP ships FedEx.

Fed Ex can hold it, but only at a secure location if they realize it's a firearm.

I've had Garands held at FedEx Kinkos when they didn't realize what they were. Otherwise I had to drive to Frederick, to the secure location.

lazarus · May 14, 2018

Yeah fortunately I don’t work too far from the BWI fedex distribution facility. So it isn’t that much of a pain to pickup from there.

KJackson · May 15, 2018

I just had a C&R pistol shipped in from Virginia. I don't quite understand how FedEx works. It left Virginia, went to New Jersey, then back to Linthicum and then on to my house. Of course it got to Linthicum on Friday, but I guess because I had the "budget" shipping, they didn't deliver it to me on Monday, instead they brought it today. My wife does not like guns at all and wasn't thrilled when she found out what she had signed for.

lazarus · May 15, 2018

KJackson said:
I just had a C&R pistol shipped in from Virginia. I don't quite understand how FedEx works. It left Virginia, went to New Jersey, then back to Linthicum and then on to my house. Of course it got to Linthicum on Friday, but I guess because I had the "budget" shipping, they didn't deliver it to me on Monday, instead they brought it today. My wife does not like guns at all and wasn't thrilled when she found out what she had signed for.

Sounds like my wife. Mine, my wife was out so I ran over to linthicum and picked it up. When I got home she’d signed the slip and left it on the door. She saw me taking it off the door. “Oh, why are you doing that”. Oh...I uh, I already ran by FedEx and picked up the package. “Oh, what was it?” I...uh...a gun part the seller insists be signed for. Weird I know. “What gun part???” A...umm...a barrel. I wanted to change of a barrel on one of my guns.

She knows about the CMP Garand though.

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