Firearms Shipping update! UPS no longer accepting firearms

Unfortunately the title isn't deceiving. We've been informed that UPS will not be accepting firearms shipments to residential customers. We will still be able to ship business to business using UPS, but not to our customers.

Any order's for firearms currently being processed that had requested UPS will be shipped Canada Post instead.

We've been trying to get an explanation from UPS, but have not gotten a response back as to why.

Below is the guidance we were sent, we'll highlight some of the important bits.


UPS Canada Firearms and Ammunition Acceptance Guidelines (Updated February 8, 2022)
Applicable to Firearms and Ammunition
• Shipper must be Pre - approved / contracted through Marketing
• Shipper must be a licensed dealer or distributor
• Domestic shipments only
• Origins and destinations must be serviced by UPS Brown operations – shipments to or from OSP areas are not permitted
• No direct shipping to a UPS Access Point location
• All shipments are shipped at Shipper’s Risk (Automatic $100 coverage and Declared Value are not available unless approved by Security and specified in
the Pre - approval contract. UPS Capital insurance may also be available.)
• Shipper must use a UPS Automated Shipping System
• Shipper must be set up on a Scheduled Pickup Account (Daily, Day Specific, On - route or Smart pickup); On - call pickup of firearm or ammunition
shipments is not permitted
• Firearms and ammunition may not be shipped in the same package
Additional for Firearms
• A unique firearms - only account number must be used for packages containing a firearm
• Only Restricted Firearms and Non - Restricted Firearms as defined by federal firearm laws and regulations are permitted
• Only business - to - business shipments are permitted; personal shipments are prohibited
• UPS Adult Signature Required service is required on every package
• A multipiece firearm shipment can only consist of packages that contain a firearm
• A package containing a firearm can include other items in the package excluding ammunition
• All shipments are also subject to the laws and regulations described on the Canada Firearms Program website
Additional for Ammunition
• Ammunition shipments can only be shipped via UPS Standard service
• Ammunition can only be accepted if prepared under Canada’s Transport of Dangerous Goods Regulations (TDGR) Special Case 1.31 for Class 1.4s
explosives UN0012 and UN0014 (excluding shipment to Newfoundland) or, Special Provision 125 for Class 1.4s explosives UN0012, UN 0014 and UN0055.
All other Class 1.4s explosives are prohibited.

Probably got tired of hearing that the package that wasn't supposed to be left on the porch - was left on the porch.....

Couldn't you just say the package is golf clubs or a fishing rod?

But they still do ammunition to residences?

Canpar, now UPS

Is Canada Post/Purolator the only option left for regular folks?

I have serious concerns about CP shipping firearms. A restricted firearm was left at my door for hours the other day unattended. I had no idea it was delivered. No one knocked. No signature was given to release it. The tracking said out for delivery all day until the evening hours when it was updated delivered which caused me to check. It was just left at my door fully visible to the street. Does CP skip the required signature for anyone else?

ups is weird... I get ammo via ups from some sellers, but not allowed from others

cmsl333 said:

I have serious concerns about CP shipping firearms. A restricted firearm was left at my door for hours the other day unattended. I had no idea it was delivered. No one knocked. No signature was given to release it. The tracking said out for delivery all day until the evening hours when it was updated delivered which caused me to check. It was just left at my door fully visible to the street. Does CP skip the required signature for anyone else?

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Whoever shipped it didn't ship it the right way, got to use proof of age. That sends the package to the post office, you show up with card in hand and provide to ID to retrieve package.

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True statement there folks.

BuzzJr1 said:

But they still do ammunition to residences?

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It has to be a delivery to an address that's serviced by UPS directly, not handed off to one of their partners. UPS has a database with the postal codes that are and aren't eligible for ammunition deliveries.

cmsl333 said:

I have serious concerns about CP shipping firearms. A restricted firearm was left at my door for hours the other day unattended. I had no idea it was delivered. No one knocked. No signature was given to release it. The tracking said out for delivery all day until the evening hours when it was updated delivered which caused me to check. It was just left at my door fully visible to the street. Does CP skip the required signature for anyone else?

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They have no clue what is inside. Package is treated as utility good.
When signature is required, I have to go pick it up at a CP counter. But the only way is what you did, keep a close eye on the tracking.

UPS just left $800 of targets on my wet porch without bother to ring the bell…a truck and a car in the driveway..there is no way he could think there was nobody home….

BuzzJr1 said:

But they still do ammunition to residences?

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We can still ship ammo, however guns and ammo must be placed on separate orders and cannot be combined in one order.

Al Flaherty's said:

We can still ship ammo, however guns and ammo must be placed on separate orders and cannot be combined in one order.

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LOL Makes total sense ! THEY ?? don't want the thieves getting the gun and ammo all at the same time ! RJ

Big Brown can kiss my $#%^& anyway...never a fan...arrogant business that gouged customers ...especially with international shipping.

And yes...this is a calculated attack on the firearms business and personal users...wont ever be stated as such...but it is corporate wokeness/lefty dogma....sma efrom ins companies...and almost certain the govt is pressuring shippers/ins companies etc on firearms matters related to business...importation/transport/storage/distributing down to retail....it is absolutley death by a thousand cuts....govt wont have to struggle with passing laws/taking heat...they will just make it so difficult for for firearms business to be conducted that most will bail

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cmsl333 said:

I have serious concerns about CP shipping firearms. A restricted firearm was left at my door for hours the other day unattended. I had no idea it was delivered. No one knocked. No signature was given to release it. The tracking said out for delivery all day until the evening hours when it was updated delivered which caused me to check. It was just left at my door fully visible to the street. Does CP skip the required signature for anyone else?

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This happened where I live... someone bought something on a private sale from #######... the seller shipped it via CP and did not select signature option or proof of age. CP delivered it... someone was home however CP just left it on the front step without knocking, 5 feet away from the sidewalk in a less than ideal part of town. The item, a restricted firearm, a handgun, was stolen by a porch pirate within minutes. Still has yet to be recovered.


This UPS thing is crap... I fear that eventually (soon) we will be left with no option at all for FA delivery in this liberal cesspool of a country.

For ammo, get the Seller to ship to your closest UPS store. That still works, useful if you are remote.

I believe this is going to be the norm moving forward.... kinda like the US. We will have to pay stores to accept the shipment of firearms, almost like using a US FFL.

I work there. A couple came through yesterday from Tenda? They always come up on the scanner as signature plus government ID required. Its basically the only thing that the customer cannot request to be left on the step. Not sure what's up?

So does this mean we can use business names that are attached to our personal addresses? Or is it just to Firearms Business Licensed addresses?