Thread: Deliver primers via Courier?

Which courier companies in NZ will transport primers? Anyone have some recent experience?

You may as well be asking who will transport tactical nukes for you. They have all thrown their hands in the air and said no!
Commercial quantities are a different proposition, but the retailers are being stung big time getting evil nasty horrible explosives transported anywhere.

Reloaders have couriered them to me not so long ago, so it's happening. I can't quite remember who but you could ask them?



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My last online primer order was back in Feb from Blackwatch.
They had no issue sending them and I'm RD, and yes they arrived safely. (The journey to me is completed by an NZ Post contractor.)
I guess NZ in the courier world has changed a bit since then.

At the same time NZ Ammo would only courier primers to a freight depot at East Tamaki, a long drive away for me.
Again, their courier company has probably changed its stance as well.

Update on this:

Toll will ship, no problem. They just added some special sticker to the box to say it is “dangerous goods”. And I had to sign a form to say that there is no insurance on the shipment.

Easy - not overly expensive either.


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I think it's Toll that NZ Ammo use.

March I got 1000from reloaders no problems not even with rural delivery

Originally Posted by Mauser308

Interesting point. Tactical nukes don't appear to be on any of the courier company's prohibited item lists...

Tactical and Nuke. Now there is an oxymoron.

The phrase is an American invention I believe. The Soviets and now the Russians have always maintained that using nukes means "mutually assured destruction", i.e. that no sane person should ever even dream of firing nukes first.

Chuck Yeager, in euro, practiced delivering Tactical Nukes from a fighter aircraft. I think it was fast and low, vertical turn and back the way you came, releasing in the turn, like a lob, so hopefully you had time to exit the blast.!Said he was happy never had to deliver the real deal.
The games we play huh??

Originally Posted by Cordite

Tactical and Nuke. Now there is an oxymoron.

The phrase is an American invention I believe. The Soviets and now the Russians have always maintained that using nukes means "mutually assured destruction", i.e. that no sane person should ever even dream of firing nukes first.

Umm, we studied these. There were several varients:

Here's the Artillery delivered option...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTdy1Yp1h5A

Then there's the demolition charge to take down critical bridges in Europe, cherrily nicknamed 'sunshine in a suitcase'...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTdy1Yp1h5A

But yes, once you started throwing these things about it would be hard to figure out where humanity would find itself.

Originally Posted by Mauser308

I think the difference between tactical and strategic is a bit like the difference between an EV and a ute. One does a little bit of damage but we can accept that it's necessary, the other one just roots everything and is the equivalent of the gateway to hell. Or something.

I was thinking more of the consequences of firing the first one, which start arriving in less than 30 minutes...