I've shipped a lot of rifles to dealers and manufacturers, and when I purchase a rifle I get it UPS and I am not a dealer of anything... I also do not have a FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSE. I have got rifles UPS and Federal Express. I do know that the United States Post Office in townwill not ship them. The postmaster and I went around and around one afternoon until he told me to leave.. I was shipping a gun stock with the lock mechanism, no barrel mind you, and the argument started. To me that is no more a firearm then the wood based lamp I have in the formal livingroom. The way around that is, do not tell them it is a rifle.