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Ammunition distributor noticing a lot of “missing” packages from UPS

So far, NO! That goes for powder also. I've run short on bullets many times and the retailer issues a $5 credit. I'm like "I want my 15-25 bullets that was shorted due to the carrier beating up the package". Lapua's plastic boxes are the worst and break easily. Nosler, Berger and Barnes have been fine. UPS was delivering 1 day and I met the driver before she stopped the vehicle. She brought (more like drug it) the package to the front and scanned it. When I picked it up, bullets started falling out. Some drivers must be illiterate as they can't just read the address, but not know numbers also! I've had the usps deliver a ffl item to me..................I opened it to see what it was at the PO...............I told them "this needs to go the ffl, not me".
 
Mr.W. said:
No difficulties, as of yet; I order from SGAmmo only. News such as this involving UPS doesn't surprise me in the least.
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to be honest, back in the days of old, UPS hired good people from with-in, not off the streets. that ticked me off, i was a very good licensed, safe driver, with great references, and i could not get a job there, cuz i didn't "know someone".....frankly, i'd rather NOT "know someone" for a job, as i got jobs on MY own merits.

but like any other industry, UPS opened up the flood gates to the unknown, un-vetted morons...as a result, there are probably 3 thieves working at UPS for every 1 great, dedicated worker nowadays there.

frankly, UPS deserves all this BS...snub good workers cuz they "don't know anyone inside"?

then hire scumbags and eat :poop: and die.
 
Had a delivery via Buster Brown earlier this week which ended up at the neighbors across the street. Thankfully they are honest. It would have not been fun to have to try to get the situation fixed after the incompetent boob left it at the wrong place.

Not the first time this has happened. UPS in our area is a horrible mess. I ask shippers not to use them, but when they are paying the freight, they choose the carrier.
 
I don't remember where the last place I ordered ammunition from was. I don't think it was SGammo because they didn't have what we were looking for.

What I do remember is that I came home from the gym and there was a case plainly marked Winchester Self Defense Ammunition sitting in the hallway outside my door.

My wife was home when it was delivered she said no one ever knocked on the door or made any indication that they delivered it.

We have a Ring camera and whoever delivered to got it in front of our door without showing up on the camera.

I wonder how much ammunition disappears through stupid practices like that
 
I did security at a FedEx shipping hub in Colorado Springs for 3 years.

the way FedEx worked when I worked there was they shipped whatever your Freight was from Hub to Hub. Kind of like how the Pony Express did it with the mail.

But if the FedEx in Dallas got a big load of stuff that was all going to Colorado Springs then they would hire a third party company to take the trailer straight through the Colorado Springs.

The reason that this is relevant to what I'm about to say is because when the third party drivers were coming the manager would tell me roughly what time they were going to arrive and what time they were scheduled to be on what loading dock.

At that particular FedEx the schedule was adhered to religiously. If you were supposed to be at loading dock 28 at 2:30 in the morning you did not get on to loading dock 28 until 2:30 in the morning.

At any given time the manager was supposed to know what truck was supposed to be at what dock or at least he was supposed to have the schedule in front of him to check the information.

While I was working at FedEx there was a theft at another FedEx. Two guys in FedEx uniforms with a box truck with a FedEx wrap on it showed up in a loading dock in Ohio(?). They backed up to one of the docks and loaded up their truck and they drove away with thousands of dollars of merchandise stolen from FedEx.

The reason I know for sure that this happened is because we got an inter company memo detailing our new security procedures to prevent it from happening again.

When I told the FedEx employees about it they said it was absolutely impossible that some random driver even in a FedEx truck would show up at a loading dock and load it up without anybody questioning who they were and what they were doing.

They were absolutely convinced that it had to have been an inside job.

I will also say that the FedEx Hub that I worked at was covered with cameras every place on that site except for the bathrooms had a camera in it.

it didn't happen often but I remember walking my rounds and finding random packages in parts of the building where they weren't supposed to be.

I will also say that as a customer I have tracked FedEx packages and I have tracked packages for example from Indiana to Missouri, Missouri to Overland Kansas, Overland Kansas to Commerce City Denver which is the last stop before Colorado Springs. Then all of a sudden I go to track the package and it's in Utah.

I think that's how a lot of stuff disappears in the FedEx system
 
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Due to the fact that here in California we have to pay the $1 background check on ammo (save the hand-to-hand exchange between friends), sadly, this is a problem we’d like to have…
 
The Night Rider said:
I don't remember where the last place I ordered ammunition from was. I don't think it was SGammo because they didn't have what we were looking for.

What I do remember is that I came home from the gym and there was a case plainly marked Winchester Self Defense Ammunition sitting in the hallway outside my door.

My wife was home when it was delivered she said no one ever knocked on the door or made any indication that they delivered it.

We have a Ring camera and whoever delivered to got it in front of our door without showing up on the camera.

I wonder how much ammunition disappears through stupid practices like that
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It was not SG...They always double-box in non-marked boxes to prevent what you describe. Except for the white and black hazard sticker. I have received cases of ammo from True Shot and Velocity that were in their factory boxes clearly showing what was inside, however. I have yet to not receive ammo ordered online...but at some point it will occur.
 
Blackmesa96 said:
Had a delivery via Buster Brown earlier this week which ended up at the neighbors across the street. Thankfully they are honest. It would have not been fun to have to try to get the situation fixed after the incompetent boob left it at the wrong place.

Not the first time this has happened. UPS in our area is a horrible mess. I ask shippers not to use them, but when they are paying the freight, they choose the carrier.
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this happens to me, form ALL and ANY deliveries....the house next door, the dumbass owner (an investor, he doesn't live there) does NOT HAVE the address number on the house..!!

so, i get a LOT of deliveries addressed to them, as well as from the house across the street, as on THAT house..?? the numbers are dark, against a DARK painted door..!!!!!

like WTF people....???

most times, me being a GREAT neighbor, i simply throw the packages into thier back steps.......

and if it's a food delivery for across the street..??

well, THAT depends on what the food is, if i wanna be a GREAT neighbor and throw it at thier door.
 
The Night Rider said:
1) I don't remember where the last place I ordered ammunition from was. I don't think it was SGammo because they didn't have what we were looking for.

2) What I do remember is that I came home from the gym and there was a case plainly marked Winchester Self Defense Ammunition sitting in the hallway outside my door.

3) My wife was home when it was delivered she said no one ever knocked on the door or made any indication that they delivered it.

4) We have a Ring camera and whoever delivered to got it in front of our door without showing up on the camera.

5) I wonder how much ammunition disappears through stupid practices like that
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2) this is why at my house, i track all my packages, and no matter what or who, someone is always home, (easy when we are retired though)

3) i have a "Deliver to rear door, please ring doorbell" signs posted...sometimes the driver rings, sometimes not....

4) Count Dracula...?? he does not show up in pictures, or in mirrors

5) i'd suspect with the current morons and thieves, the delivery companies hire...a whole lot
 
I've never had any issues with ammo deliveries. Except once when my UPS driver got to my house and noticed the box from SG Ammo was pretty F'ed up. No one was home so he just took it back with him and sent it back. I got my delivery about 3 days later. I wasn't home or I would have at least checked inside the box. Either way it was pretty responsible of my driver, whom I've known for a very long time.
 
Bassbob said:
I've never had any issues with ammo deliveries. Except once when my UPS driver got to my house and noticed the box from SG Ammo was pretty F'ed up. No one was home so he just took it back with him and sent it back. I got my delivery about 3 days later. I wasn't home or I would have at least checked inside the box. Either way it was pretty responsible of my driver, whom I've known for a very long time.
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that's the problem/issue in other areas, it's never the same driver each time.

for me, it can be a newbie, just learning the route after being with a trainer for about 2 weeks, but in another area, like the burbs, where there are no dead end streets, or alleys, or houses behind houses.

long gone are the days (at least in my area) where we knew the driver by name, and could actually depend on him that could do the right things. (it was always men drivers back in the days)

nowadays, it's men with eyeliner and long eye lashes, and gals(??) with beards......
 
Old_Me said:
that's the problem/issue in other areas, it's never the same driver each time.

for me, it can be a newbie, just learning the route after being with a trainer for about 2 weeks, but in another area, like the burbs, where there are no dead end streets, or alleys, or houses behind houses.

long gone are the days (at least in my area) where we knew the driver by name, and could actually depend on him that could do the right things. (it was always men drivers back in the days)
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I'm out well past the "burbs". I've had the same driver for 22 years now. I buy him a christmas present every year.
 
Bassbob said:
I'm out well past the "burbs". I've had the same driver for 22 years now. I buy him a christmas present every year.
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when we lost our driver, we didn't even know it....

we gave him a bottle of liquor which in retrospect, maybe we should not have, but back then, it was the normal gift to give. (how would we know if he was a drinker, a drunk or not???)

we then would give our long time mailman a gift as well, again, some sort of liquor.

not any more nowadays, as we get different letter carriers monthly, and UPS drivers change just as quickly.
 
One more story about FedEx for what it's worth. I was walking rounds one night and I found a fully loaded FedEx trailer, backed up to a fence right next to a pedestrian gate. I seem to remember the gate being open.

Supposedly somebody had cut the fence at that FedEx to steal fireworks the year before but I never saw any evidence of the fence being repaired on the fence line. My point here being that if that if it had actually happened you would think that they would pay attention to things like not leaving open trailers in the lot.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I shut the gate and locked it. (assuming it actually was open) I know I went and reported it to the manager immediately.

The manager was in his office with some of his coworkers. They all seemed very pissed off that I was bothering them and none of them seemed in the least surprised by what I was telling them.

Make of that what you will.
 
The Night Rider said:
One more story about FedEx for what it's worth. I was walking rounds one night and I found a fully loaded FedEx trailer, backed up to a fence right next to a pedestrian gate. I seem to remember the gate being open.

Supposedly somebody had cut the fence at that FedEx to steal fireworks the year before but I never saw any evidence of the fence being repaired on the fence line. My point here being that if that if it had actually happened you would think that they would pay attention to things like not leaving open trailers in the lot.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I shut the gate and locked it. (assuming it actually was open) I know I went and reported it to the manager immediately.

The manager was in his office with some of his coworkers. They all seemed very pissed off that I was bothering them and none of them seemed in the least surprised by what I was telling them.

Make of that what you will.
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Maybe getting a cut to look the other way!
 
Recusant said:
Maybe getting a cut to look the other way!
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That's always what I assumed.

At that particular FedEx they hated security. It got to the point where I refuse to walk around the parking lot when they were moving trucks because I really believed they were trying to hit me.

They moved that particular FedEx to the other side of the city and they left me at the old site for 2 years. It was great I was the only one there during my shift.

The night they sold the FedEx that I worked at they moved me to the new one for the weekend before sending me to my new assignment.

Towards the end of my shift a FedEx driver not uniform and without his FedEx ID showed up the gate and wanted me to let him in.

This was the day after the mass shooting at the FedEx Hub in Indiana.

I wasn't familiar with that site so I didn't have the manager's direct phone number. So I made the guy wait at the guard shack while I went and asked the manager if it was okay to let him in.

By the time I got to the manager the guy had already called him and the manager knew who it was and was pissed off at me for daring to double check before I let the guy in.
 
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