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Posted: 2/22/2011 3:12:42 PM EDT
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I placed an order for 16# of WC644 from Hi-Tech last Friday and had it shipped to my work because of the signature requirement (noone was going to be at home during delivery hours). I thought that the box would just have the standard UPS Hazmat label and a Hazmat packing slip, and it wouldn't have been a problem since I work at a lab and our dock crew is used to receiving those kinds of labeled packages. What I didn't count on was that the sides of the box would be printed with: "Hi-Tech Ammunition" & "Small Arms Smokeless Powder" I work in behind enemy lines in Chicago, and so to say the least, the dock crew and higher ups were not too pleased with this shipment... Got very close to getting in real trouble, and just grateful they didn't freak out and call the cops or something. So note to self and others, don't assume discreet packaging for these kinds of things!  |
I did the same thing but with a SW 629. Shipped out for repair in original packaging inside a brown box expecting it to come back in a brown box.... But NO its comes back in the original SW blue container with the SW emblem and sticker identifying contents Had some explaining to do there......
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| I had a scope shipped to work once. I worked in a courthouse, and totally forgot that the scope came with 200 free rounds of Russian .22 ammo. I don't know if it was common practice to run packages through the x-ray machine, but they ran that one through and I got summoned to the court security office... |
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I was shipping a gun to Ruger for repair and had the same "no one at home" problem. In front of an audiance I asked the panty wetter boss if it was allright to return ship it to our warehouse. He visibly squirmed in his seat before consenting, as long as there was no ammo in the building.
Made everybodies day watching him sweat. |
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I had a scope shipped to work once. I worked in a courthouse, and totally forgot that the scope came with 200 free rounds of Russian .22 ammo. I don't know if it was common practice to run packages through the x-ray machine, but they ran that one through and I got summoned to the court security office... Good thing you had a lawyer nearby.  
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| I had to ship a Remington SPR310 back for warranty work (fuckin Russian junk, not the Turkish made one). Sent the gun thru the USPS and got it back at the company warehouse. Receiving guy calls me up and tells me "Your gun is here, come and get it." No drama at all. Alaska is like that though... |
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I placed an order for 16# of WC644 from Hi-Tech last Friday and had it shipped to my work because of the signature requirement (noone was going to be at home during delivery hours). I thought that the box would just have the standard UPS Hazmat label and a Hazmat packing slip, and it wouldn't have been a problem since I work at a lab and our dock crew is used to receiving those kinds of labeled packages. What I didn't count on was that the sides of the box would be printed with: "Hi-Tech Ammunition" & "Small Arms Smokeless Powder" I work in behind enemy lines in Chicago, and so to say the least, the dock crew and higher ups were not too pleased with this shipment... Got very close to getting in real trouble, and just grateful they didn't freak out and call the cops or something. So note to self and others, don't assume discreet packaging for these kinds of things! Dang, sounds like that was not fun. |
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LOL.
It's times like these that make me feel good about running my own company (small as it is).... I was sitting home today waiting on the HVAC guy to come by and check something out... he brings in a pistol for me to check out while he works on the heat pump! Living in a Free State has it's advantages! |
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several years back the fedex driver delivered an complete upper to the casino I'm stationed at, the driver tried to deliver to my house (I wasn't there because I'd been called in), but he recognized the phone number to the casino on the box/comments so he delivered it there, he asked receiving if they knew Ndenway, they said yeah and signed for it.
sop for packages in my dept/office is to open them up and check for damage soon as receiving delivers it before accecpting, got called to the directors office and asked why I had a gun shipped to work; I informed that it wasn't a gun, it was gun parts and was supposed to deliver to my house address as indicated by the shipping label. I spoke with receiving and they advised what the fedex driver had told them. |
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I'd have most likely been fired (according to employee manual).
No guns on premesis. Course, I'm lucky enough to have them by the balls because I'm rather valuable with everything I do around here, so I'd probably just get told to not do it again. Helps that we're also a small location and not one of the big corporate sites. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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If We get Caught with a Fired/Empty case even in our Vehicles, Fired Banned for Life, Foreign Trade Zone Homeland Security and Who knows What Else Say what? I Mean, Say What? I work at a "Federally Protected Energy Facility", aka; refinery. Same thing here, for the most part. Thankfully, the "good ole boys", probably Texans at heart, forgave me when we had a surprise vehicle search with dogs as we came into work one morning. I use my daily driver as, well, my daily driver. The trunk always has a ton of crap in it, and this time during the search I had a litter pan full of spent cases and also some live ammo in zip-loc bags with the powder grain weights written on them in the trunk after I was working up loads for 45acp the previous day. Along with used targets and my chronograph. The security guard had me pop the trunk, and voila....there's the cases in plain view. Im thinking to myself "fuuuuuuck". I didn't remember them being there until I opened the trunk. The gal with the dog sees it and says "sir, can you please step back?", I oblidge. She then asks me "Sir, do you have any firearms in the vehicle?". I say to her, with a sheepish laugh "I honestly don't know." Lucky for me, I wasn't stupid enough to leave the firearms in the car. A few minutes later, they come back and ask what the numbers on the zip-loc bags mean. I told them I was working up loads, and that those were grain weights of powder charges in the bagged cartridges. One of the officers doing the searches said to me that he figured that's what it was, and that he noticed that I also have a chronograph. About 30 minutes later, and after my supervisor comes down, they let me continue into the refinery. My boss gets with me the next day, and tells me that he talked with corporate and told me to just make sure it doesn't happen again. He said they didn't feel it was punishable, even though it clearly states in the company policy 'no ammunition'. I picked up my ammo on the way out of the refinery after my shift ended. I keep my vehicles cleaner nowadays. 
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