Regarding of what the Po employees are ALLOWED or NOT allowed to do or say. They are pretty much protected from any misconduct. And your experiences may differ from one location to another. They are not consistently well managed.
I don't doubt your word that they asked you. The P.O. employs human beings; some are better at their job than others, some know the rules and some don't.
They aren't supposed to ask but it does happen. Someone not thinking and following the script or just plain nosey or possibly thinking they are just asking a friendly question for conversation.
Thank you for your comment.
OK Let me explain and then I will not comment on your post again .I did not say that you said anything I stated that others had tried to tell you that postal emp. are not allowed to ask what you ship just hazmat questions . So you had a different experience and now we all know the postal emp. is not to ask and we are not to tell Have a good day
Yup EXACTLY why I started this post.
I am not disputing your experience at all, May be that’s what they are telling you. I know for a fact what I stated, they DO NOT X-ray packages, they DO NOT sniff them with dogs, or search them in anyway way shape or form. In order for them to do that they NEED A WARRANT. In order to get the warrant they need PC to place in the affidavit and so on. Is almost impossible to accomplish these tasks on regular Joe packages so the few PIs target criminal organizations that smuggle items thru the mail. They couldn’t care less about your ML barrel.
It wasn’t the barrel that attracted their attention. It was the ramrod thimbles attached to the barrel that they claim was mistook for what looked like ammo cartridges. I never said that it was sniffed by dogs either.
I haven’t entered into this thread too much but I have to some extent.
Nice way to hone a fine point.
A good positive suggestion. I use Pirate Ship and Shippo and it's made my life of shipping waaay easier. I walk in, put it in a cart and walk out. It's really nice when the Christmas shipping line is 35 or 45 minutes long.
Ooh, I’ll have to check shippo out… All being said I don’t doubt @Salty at all. Glad he put it out there. He had a negative experience, hope all goes well for him, really sucks when crap like that happens, I’m glad I haven’t had a negative experience yet.
You should not have told them what was in the box. My local post master told me they are not permitted to ask.
My local postmaster insists on an answer. I told them a tool.
Excellent suggestion. Thank you.
