Shipping Primers and powder

^Easier than answering I guess. I see discussion of many illegal activities with actual or potential victims gets a pass so my bad for pushing something that is perfectly safe, despite the uninformed opinion it isn't.
 
Do anybody actually care how they receive their powder? Lol

What are you gonna do if it arrives CP? Report it?
I don’t understand why this thread even started, just mail it however you want and shut up about it.
 
Canada Post has updated their website with a number of relevant pages, including:

Ship and receive firearms within Canada
<https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/personal/sending/parcels/restrictions/firearms.page#>

What is non-mailable matter?
<https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articles/non-mailable-matter/what-is-non-mailable-matter.page#1420215>

Transportation of dangerous goods classes and index
<https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articles/non-mailable-matter/transportation-of-dangerous-goods-classes-and-index.page>

Firearms (including imitation and replica firearms)
<https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articles/non-mailable-matter/firearms.page>
 
I remember reading an article that said Canada Post is Canada’s biggest drug dealer haha.

I don’t think CP really cares enough to open up boxes.
 
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The pages contradict each other.

Wendell said:
Canada Post has updated their website with a number of relevant pages, including:

Ship and receive firearms within Canada
<https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/personal/sending/parcels/restrictions/firearms.page#>

What is non-mailable matter?
<https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articles/non-mailable-matter/what-is-non-mailable-matter.page#1420215>

Transportation of dangerous goods classes and index
<https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articles/non-mailable-matter/transportation-of-dangerous-goods-classes-and-index.page>

Firearms (including imitation and replica firearms)
<https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articles/non-mailable-matter/firearms.page>
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I had some bullets mailed to me a few years ago and was advised to pick up the parcel at the main office in Wpg. When I handed in the card a manager came out to talk to me. Told me everything was OK and that the parcel had busted open. The handler pressed the panic button on the open parcel thinking it was live round but the manager knew what this was, as it was not dangerous goods. I would hate to have seen if it was live rounds and how they would have handled this. Personally , I wouldn't take the chance.
 
Ogg2012 said:
I remember reading an article that said Canada Post is Canada’s biggest drug dealer haha.

I don’t think CP really cares enough to open up boxes.
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Unlike other couriers, they are bound by the Canada Post Act which prevents them from opening packages at random.
 
blargon said:
Was the cost reasonable?
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Ya it wasn't bad. Shipped from home in PG to Northern Vancouver Island. Can't remember the exact cost though. Thinking it was $60 or so but I sent some other things along with the 3 pounds of powder as well. It arrived there in only a few days. Would definitely use them again.
 
I Dont Care About You said:
Really? Explain how smokeless powder inside a factory container is more dangerous than a cardboard box, when either is exposed to fire?
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The combustion of 8 lbs of double base smokeless powder creates enough pressure to lift the roof off a 12'X12' building built to NBC standards. Combustion of a cardboard box, not so much.
 
Sounds like shipping a brick of 22LR ammunition via Canada Post breaks rules and is enforceable by law .

Shipping ammunition via UPS, FEDEX etc is against their rules but is it enforceable by law like Canada Post?
 
FatCatsDad said:
Sounds like shipping a brick of 22LR ammunition via Canada Post breaks rules and is enforceable by law .

Shipping ammunition via UPS, FEDEX etc is against their rules but is it enforceable by law like Canada Post?
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Yes.

Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992
S.C. 1992, c. 34

Offences and Punishment
Contraventions
33 (1) Every person is guilty of an offence who contra-
venes a provision of
(a) this Act;
(b) a direction issued under paragraph 7.1(a), subsec-
tion 9(2) or (3), section 17, paragraph 19(1)(a) or (b) or
subsection 32(1);
(c) the regulations;
(d) a security measure; or
(e) an interim order.

(2) Every person who commits an offence under subsec-
tion (1)
(a) is liable on indictment to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding two years; or
(b) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not ex-
ceeding $50,000 for a first offence, and not exceeding
$100,000 for each subsequent offence.
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toxic said:
The combustion of 8 lbs of double base smokeless powder creates enough pressure to lift the roof off a 12'X12' building built to NBC standards. Combustion of a cardboard box, not so much.
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Phhhttt .... baloney. I've burnt off sealed containers of powder and there is FA pressure involved.

Also, if the conditions outside of a sealed container of powder are enough to ignite the powder inside, the addition of burning powder will be the least of the current problems or at least it won't make the current problems any worse.
 
I've witnessed kegs of powder burn in a house fire and there was no explosion. Lots of primers popping from ammo though.
 
Wierd, I get powders shipped to me all the time from retailers, no problems. Bullets, just got a case last week from Ontario, to BC. No extra special costs involved, and only $36 shipping. That is 200 rifle rounds, and a few smaller items. Granted there are a few places that just don't want to deal with the "extra perceived hassles", so I find the ones that are okay with it.

Some retailers that ship ups will not delivery to your door, because they don't have any "dangerous goods" drivers. Easy fix, get it delivered to a drop location in a retail store. No problem suddenly with that option, go figure.

I use fedex and drop ship staples to staples with no problems.
 
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