So, Canada Post asked what I was shipping today!!!

I suspect the only issue here is that they have to ask to make sure you are not shipping hazardous, flammable or explosive material but some worker are interpreting this broadly or misinterpreting and asking exactly what is being shipped.

They certainly have the power to inspect but that is a different issue. http://www.laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-10/page-5.html#h-26.

The requirements for shipping firearms are very clear https://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/manual/PGnonmail-e.asp#1387800

Interestingly I see they have now added the explicit provisions on attaching locks and shipping in a locked container. I think this has always been a fairly clear (though rarely practiced) requirement for resticteds. Looks like it now applies to non-restricted.

Policy for Non-Mailable Matter

3.3 Firearms (including imitation and replica firearms)
Canada:
Please contact the Canadian Firearms Centre at cfc-cafc.gc.ca or by calling 1-800-731-4000 to determine whether it is permissible to ship your firearms.
When it is determined permissible to ship firearms, they must be shipped as follows:

Consumer: Regular Parcel with Signature option.
Contract customer: Expedited Parcel with the Proof of Age (18 or 19) option using EST. Visit Section Mail addressed to children of Policies for an age of majority by province or territory listing.

Customers who wish to ship firearms must:
-unload the firearms - there cannot be any ammunition in the firearm or in the package (bullets, cartridges and other ammunition are dangerous goods)
-attach a secure locking device to the firearms, lock the firearms in a sturdy, non-transparent container, and
-remove the bolt or bolt carrier from any automatic firearms (if removable).

Firearms cannot be shipped via air and cannot have any markings on the outside of the packaging. The customer is solely responsible for meeting all Canadian Firearms Centre regulations.
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If the idea is to somehow ship your firearm incognito, I doubt many at CPC are fooled. A box with a gun in it looks like nothing else. (Especially when a fellow gun nut sends you one in a box emblazoned with "Savage Firearms" all over it. :S)

I recently went to CP to ship a rifle, with my typical stealth wrapping on the box. The clerk looked at it for 2 seconds and said, "Shipping a firearm, I guess?" I saw no value in lying and told her it was. She just laughed at me. "Yeah, my husband gets a lot of boxes shaped like this sent to our house." So at least sometimes, the question is just innocent curiosity.
 
Wardo1974 said:
If the idea is to somehow ship your firearm incognito, I doubt many at CPC are fooled. A box with a gun in it looks like nothing else. (Especially when a fellow gun nut sends you one in a box emblazoned with "Savage Firearms" all over it. :S)

I recently went to CP to ship a rifle, with my typical stealth wrapping on the box. The clerk looked at it for 2 seconds and said, "Shipping a firearm, I guess?" I saw no value in lying and told her it was. She just laughed at me. "Yeah, my husband gets a lot of boxes shaped like this sent to our house." So at least sometimes, the question is just innocent curiosity.
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restricted look pretty much like any other package
 
I just got the "Dangerous Goods" question posed at the counter. I informed her that it was a header for a Harley and she gave me a certain look, me thinks she knew differently but was more than happy with my response....

Dirk
 
The new requirement for a hard case and trigger lock is why I no longer ship guns if I can help it. My post office started flat-out asking if it was a gun and showed me their policy in writing.

After looking into it, the way I read the law if you're not complying with Canada post guidelines you may be in violation of the criminal code (or firearms act can't recall off the top of my head) requirement for post by most secure means offered... it's not super clear but I'm not going to risk it.

If I need to ship Canada post it will be in accordance with their policies, just a personal decision.
 
I work for Canada Post we deliver guns daily. The counter clerk responsibility is to ensure that it is not an item that is hazardous to ship. As for firearms it is our policy to ship ground not Air.
 
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