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Originally Posted by JB_AOL
While there is no excuse for their lack of knowledge in regards to shipping firearms
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They know their policies, it's others that don't agree with it. If you are traveling with the rifle you can take it, if you are using their "courier" service, they aren't suppose to accept it. As much as it doesn't make sense, that's their policy and they do know it!
Prohibited Articles
1. Participating Carriers will NOT accept or transport Express Shipments which, because of character, size or weight, are obnoxious to Passengers, or which are likely to be, or to become, objectionable to Passengers or prospective passengers or which are liable to cause injury to personnel, or to Baggage, other Shipments or the Company's equipment.
2. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, Packages or Shipments which contain the following commodities, articles, materials, or substances,
will NOT be accepted for transportation:
1. Alcoholic Beverages
2. Animals, Birds(ie Baby Chicks), Insects (ie Bees) and Reptiles - Live
3. Batteries, Electric Storage, wet (Containing Electrolyte Acid or Other Alkaline corrosive battery fluid)
4. Cash
5. Corpses and Cremated remains (Human or Animal)
6. Dangerous Goods subject to the Transportation of Dangerous Goods TDG regulations except limited quantity and exemptions in compliance with TDG regulations.
7. Equipment or Items containing Gasoline, Diesel, or other flammable liquids including residues, ie generators, mowers, chainsaws.
8. Firearms, including Rifles, Shotguns and Restricted Weapons.
9. Jewelry
10. Materials having disagreeable odour
11. Securities (Negotiable)
12. Tobacco, inter-provincial (i.e. across provincial boundaries)
http://www.shipgreyhound.ca/en/terms/