Shipping airguns you should be using ...pirateship.com

[bchannell]

I've seen a few posts on here in the last little while griping about shipping, and I have some advice.

1) USPS Ground Advantage, it's ok, but in my mind not really worth the, sometimes, long delay in delivery. I've used it a time or two, but have sworn off it.
2) USPS Priority Mail, it's their best option, but mail service is getting worse every day. My last incoming shipment took 9 or 10 days and was 60 miles form my home for over 3 days. Then the funny story is... when you come to my house, my driveway is roughly 300 feet long, and then it splits, you go right into my garage, on that side you could conservatively park a dozen cars. If you go left, you could literally park a 747 in front of my house. But, and this is the great part. If a delivery is on saturday, (not my normal mailman), I will almost always get a notice, "driveway inaccessable" HOLY COW! how much room do they need!!!!!?

So, I'm not using USPS any more than is necessary.

I've had good luck with both UPS and FedEx, so when one of the service techs at AOA had me send in my Impact for work, he said use pirateship.com and save a bundle. He was right. You can ship a gun, which normally would cost something on the order of $60-100 for around $35, it's amazing and they use UPS or USPS, and there may be another too, I can't remember. So that's what I use and it's amazing how much you save and I've never had a problem and when you go into your "free" account, you get a history of all shipments and tracking numbers. So if you haven't give it a try.

 

[MongooseV8]

What do you use for shipping labels? I bought one of those Zebra laser magic printer things but still havent hooked it up.

 

[Bedrock Bob]

Pirate ship. It's the best.

I just print out the label slap it on the box and ship it off.

If you can't put it in a $5 USPS mailer Pirate ship is the way to go. All the cool kids are doing it.

 

[Dr. Kralenstein]

I've been back charged using pirate ship a couple times. Sometimes their rate is too low and the end delivery service bills PS, and they just take it out of your funding source.

I shipped a rifle stock to California. Gave true measurements and even added a couple pounds to make sure they charged enough, and got an email about a week after delivery saying I had been charged an extra almost 20 bucks for "shipping partner adjustment".

 

[Scotay42]

I've been back charged using pirate ship a couple times. Sometimes their rate is too low and the end delivery service bills PS, and they just take it out of your funding source.

I shipped a rifle stock to California. Gave true measurements and even added a couple pounds to make sure they charged enough, and got an email about a week after delivery saying I had been charged an extra almost 20 bucks for "shipping partner adjustment".

Fight it, they did that to me and refunded me. I double check before i ship. If you are right, they will give in and refund. I also had proof from the dropoff receipt.

 

[FelixS]

Thanks for the post!

 

[dens228]

Yes! I use them all the time.
Plus it's so easy to walk into the UPS store, they scan the label, give me my receipt, and I'm done.

 

[farmerjoe99]

Yep I started using them in 2024 and have shipped dozens of packages with them now, and have no complaints and their customer service was great to when I accidently mixed up package destinations and needed to do a package intercept and redirect they got back to me quickly and got everything sorted out for me before the package arrived at the wrong address.

Personally the only back charge adjustments I've gotten have been under $4, and I believe that's only happened once or twice to me across 40+ packages. To top it all off its free and actually a better interface than several payed shipping services I've used in the past.

 

[Firewalker]

Yep I started using them in 2024 and have shipped dozens of packages with them now, and have no complaints and their customer service was great to when I accidently mixed up package destinations and needed to do a package intercept and redirect they got back to me quickly and got everything sorted out for me before the package arrived at the wrong address.

Personally the only back charge adjustments I've gotten have been under $4, and I believe that's only happened once or twice to me across 40+ packages. To top it all off its free and actually a better interface than several payed shipping services I've used in the past.

Same story here, my fault, small charge, even got one refund for declaring too much weight.

Print labels out on regular printer paper and tape it on the package... done.

 

[baranjhn]

I’ve been using them now for several months and think it’s a wonderful service. Shipping rates are a lot lower that going to the source. In fact, I’ve been offering free shipping a lot due to the money savings.

 

[Contndr35BB]

I'm confused. You print a label & drop off your package where ? Regular UPS/ FedEX / USPS ?

 

[Bedrock Bob]

I'm confused. You print a label & drop off your package where ? Regular UPS/ FedEX / USPS ?

Yes. It's just like a return shipping label. Print it, slap it on the box and drop it off at the UPS store.

UPS dosent have many customer counters left. The UPS Store contracts that now. Many businesses in small towns will accept UPS dropoffs. And there are UPS pickup boxes located all over the place. There are privately owned shipping businesses that will also accept drop offs.

I'm not sure about FedEx but I think the USPS accepts packages with prepaid labels as well. That's my understanding but I might be wrong. The Pirate ship program tells you all about that in the instructions.

It's an extra cost but you can have them pick it up at your door. So if you can't get it to a shipping point someone will collect it from you.