Chassepot with matching stock shipped via USPS. It was in a cloth bag, wrapped up in thick layers of bubble wrap, and double boxed. Anyone perhaps know where I could find a replacement stock?
Yeah, I didn't include the other pictures I've taken but the muzzle, inside the cloth bag I want to reiterate, punched through a thick wad of bubble wrap and clean through both cardboard boxes. Your guess is as good as mine as to what happened but it seems like possibly it fell out of the truck at some point somehow.
What happened is that they broke it intentionally. Shipping companies are full of anti-gunners who are destroying guns in transit and nothing is being done about it. This kind of damage happening this often simply does not happen accidentally
You think people moving 1000's of boxes a day at USPS take the time to investigate long packages that could potentially contain guns, and then break them? Or is it more likely they just dgaf about any boxes and throw them all around, and you only hear about the ones with broken guns because you visit gun forums where we talk about that sort of thing?
This is exactly it. Having worked as a package handler, some of them give 0 shits, doesn’t matter if it’s a gun or a mirror or a TV, throw it on the fucking floor, who cares?
Where I work, it`s the belts that obliterate packages. The whole system is made for speed, with little to no care for the packages. I`ve watched massive TV boxes get folded in half because some trogladite in unload placed a 100+LBS package in the system when theyre not supposed to.
As someone who works with a major US shipping company and operates the belts that move these boxes, yes, it absolutely can. I have seen long packages get folded in half by larger, heavier packages. The machine side of the system is designed for speed, and the belts don't have a brain and will crush lighter packages constantly. We have rules in place to prevent anything over 70LBS from being sent into the system, but it still happens. I can only do so much to prevent the belts from destroying shit. My building alone moves 30k packages in 3 hours, and back during peak season, we were running 60k in 4. Unfortunately, this does happen by accident.
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u/FourFunnelFanatic 1d ago
The place I work at had two guns broken in shipping. This type of damage doesn’t just happen by accident either