Just after Columbine, UPS (and fedEx, and others) declared it will NOT ship pistols by surface anymore- you MUST pay for them to send it Next Day Air or 2nd Day Air, because they are allegedly afraid of their esteemed employees stealing your stuff, even if it is sent to/from an FFL (only way to ship pistols (?) ). In other words, because UPS management (utter bastards, BTW, to their employees) doesn't feel like cleaning up their own house and throwing out criminal employees, you or the gun firm/shop has to spend more money to ship it in a shorter time, so as to not leave it in the pipeline for too long. Guess who pays for that in the end? We, the customers, do.
Jerks.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
December 9, 1949