OK, it is 3:00 in the afternoon and I spent most of today trying to ship an upper back a big 15 miles away to Bear Creek Arsenal in Sanford NC.
Bear Creek Arsenal dealt fairly with me and had a very good customer service attitude, but their business model is definitely breaking down on the UPS side of things.
UPS has a skidillion little stores now claiming to be UPS Stores, but they are not, they are franchises that operate under local management.
That local management can decide (and many liberal minded branch owners have apparently agreed to this mindset) that they 1) lack the knowledge to know if it is a barrel, an upper barrel assembly or if it is really a gun 2) and that being all "unqualified"
they now can refuse to handle ANY GUN PART AT ALL.
All gun stuff is now referred to the regional UPS HUB which is many miles away from most all of us civilians,
or you can pay a gun store to handle it under the existing BATF completed gun rules, your choice.
And the liberal person standing on the other side of the counter is quite smug while telling you this after they had called the manufacturer that issued the shipping label to have them to call you on the phone to tell you that you HAVE to immediately come back to the local UPS Store to pick up this "toxic package" that you dropped off on them.
Where it gets bad next is that the regional UPS HUB has cut their regional hub hours down to half days because of all the new little UPS stores they put up all over ....... but their web presence still says they are open all day instead of reduced hours (extended lunch until 4:00 type hours).