[Gavin Nugent]

Originally Posted by Bill Marsh

I am not sure if the problem lay with Fedex, UPS, and DHL in Belgium, but when I called these three companies, they universally said, "We don't ship weapons internationally!"

Gav, perhaps they don't really know what a Chinese Pole Arm is? In the southern USA a skunk is called a "pole-cat."

But if you had labeled it a "spear," or "Chinese Weapon," you might have had a problem.

So I have an antique farming tool -- that looks remarkably like a panabas, and an antique fishing rod -- that looks remarkably like a bow, on the way to me.



Here INSIDE the USA it is quite different!

I just got an 1887 Winchester Lever Action 10 guage shotgun delivered by UPS USA. They did have to send the ammunition in a separate box. All legal and happy!

FYI most guns made before 1900 are considered "antiques" and you don't need special licensing to ship and receive.

G'day Bill,

I hope it does sort itself out, it was noted on my customs and fedex paperwork as a Chinese sword. I find it unusual that you received this response, I have bought from some very large arms specialist auction houses in the USA and they all shipped Fedex???

Gav