Shipping smokeless powder
Norm Dion
Are any stickers involved--cost?
TIA
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# What is the correct procedure for shipping 8# of smokeless powder using UPS?
# Are any stickers involved--cost?
#
# TIA
#
UPS charges a Hazmat fee, around $25. I also think the box has to be
marked ORM-D. 8 lbs is below the maximum weight, so no problems
there. Check with UPS, they're the ones you've got to satisfy.
Stan
Ron Bloom
"Norm Dion" <npd...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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# What is the correct procedure for shipping 8# of smokeless powder using
# UPS?
# Are any stickers involved--cost?
#
# TIA
ORMD ?
Dennis Mickey
many experts here.
Gunny_2008
UPS?
# Are any stickers involved--cost?
#
# TIA
Looks like you are out of luck, at least with UPS. Unless you are an
established contract hazmat shipper with UPS they will not accept the
shipment. That is per a conversation with a customer service rep at the UPS
Hazardous Materials Support Center at 1-800-554-9964.
You can also read up on their hazmat procedures at:
http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/ship/hazardous/index.html?WT.svl=SubNav
Perhaps there is another shipper that would take it. It may be cheaper and
simpler to just sell it to another local reloader and buy new powder when
you get there.
R.L. Horn
wrote:
# What is the correct procedure for shipping 8# of smokeless powder using
# UPS?
You don't. UPS only accepts HAZMAT shipments on a contract basis. Moreover,
I believe that there are training and paperwork requirements (as per 49 CFR)
that apply to the shipper regardless of carrier used. See:
http://www.ups.com/using/services/accs/hazmat/hzm_home.html
http://hazmat.dot.gov/
(The latter was a dead link today, but there might be some useful
information there whenever it comes back.)
So far as I know, if you can't find a HAZMAT shipper willing to ship the
powder on your behalf, the only option is to put it in the car and drive...
zxcvbob
# On Aug 28, 6:27 am, "Norm Dion" <npd...@comcast.net> wrote:
# # What is the correct procedure for shipping 8# of smokeless powder using UPS?
# # Are any stickers involved--cost?
# #
# # TIA
# #
# UPS charges a Hazmat fee, around $25. I also think the box has to be
# there. Check with UPS, they're the ones you've got to satisfy.
# Stan
ORM-D is for small arms ammunition (or certain toxic or flammable
"consumer commodities"), and there's no hazmat fee for that. Gunpowder
and primers have a different classification.
Bob
zxcvbob
# What is the correct procedure for shipping 8# of smokeless powder using UPS?
# Are any stickers involved--cost?
#
You have to pay a $20 hazardous materials fee, and I think the warning
diamond sticker on the box says "Flammable solid". I assume they
provide the sticker, but I don't know.
Bob
R.L. Horn
# UPS charges a Hazmat fee, around $25. I also think the box has to be
# marked ORM-D.
Cartridges are ORM-D. "Smokeless powder for small arms (100 pounds or
less)" is a Class 4.1 (flammable solid) hazardous material.
UPS will accept non-contract ORM-D shipments, but not classified HAZMATs.
In addition, it's my understanding that few, if any, UPS middlemen (The UPS
Store included) will even accept ORM-D packages (you have to deal directly
with UPS).
Flash
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# ORMD ?
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Yeah, Ron. "Other Regulated Materials, Domestic"
Stuff that fits a regulatory catergory, but ships in a class, with other
"similar" catergories of stuff.
Flash
Try:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=ORM-D&src=IE-SearchBox