Shipping Loaded Ammunition

Gerald said:
What is the best way to legally ship ammunition within Canada? Any help is appreciated. Who is the best carrier?
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Depends on how much you are shipping. For anything up to a few thousand rounds DHL or CanPar will accomodate your needs, although they are not cheap. DHL have an online rate calculation tool that's pretty accurate - not sure about CanPar. DHL also have all the necessary DG forms available online.

Safety Cartridges, Consumer Quantity, UN0012, 1.4S is the usual marking, or else Consumer Commodity, Limited Quantity, UN0012, 1.4S.

For pallet-sized or larger loads, call your local truck freight forwarding center and get a price on LTL shipping. You'll need to know the size, weight and value of the shipment to get quotes.
 
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Canpar contracts Canada Post to ship up to Fort McMurray via regular parcel post yet I am not allowed to ship ammo out of town via Canada Post due to "safety reasons". It has never made much sense to me.
 
I sent a 3000 rounds (it was a huge box o' ammo) of .22 from Calgary to Toronto for $25 via Canpar a couple of months ago.

I also sent 30 rounds of .410 from Calgary to Vancouver via DHL for $22 here a couple of weeks ago.

Needles to say, I'm never shipping DHL again.
 
Common carriers like Day and Ross will do it, but it doesn't make sense unless you're shipping a few cases. I looked at moving some from the BC interior to Ottawa ON and it was $120 for one case or $140 for four cases. Hazmat charges included.
 
otter said:
Common carriers like Day and Ross will do it, but it doesn't make sense unless you're shipping a few cases. I looked at moving some from the BC interior to Ottawa ON and it was $120 for one case or $140 for four cases. Hazmat charges included.
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It should not be hazmat...mark it consumer commodity...and hazmat charge do not apply.......depending on amount..........
 
These are 2 boxes of twenty cartridges each. I just checked with the Canpar rate calculator and it comes to about $30. to ship from Ontario to Alberta. These are not real common cartridges.
 
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