ORIGINAL: Turk_man--Always ship USPS. And get inventive with the name of what your shipping, a ported choke tube can become a thread pipe reemer, lol.
About a month ago I sent a take off synthetic rifle stock to Alberta for a friend using USPS. On the green ticket, I declared it a rifle stock. My friend had boxed it in a Boyd's box saying gunstocks etc. Well guess what, we should have been more inventive, because it bounced and came back and lost 12$ worth of postage on the deal.
I'm sending it to Arizona today and bet it won't come back from there.
JD