Thread: Fastways Courier Calling The Cops?

Section 73 a - you could have a contract with someone to pick up the package from the courier company and deliver it to you. A written and signed piece of paper should be enough to meet the requirements of a contract.

73 Savings in respect of carriers and persons authorised to exercise powers of seizure
(1)
Notwithstanding anything in this Act, but subject to any prohibitions, limitations, restrictions, or conditions imposed by or pursuant to any regulations made under this Act,—
(a)
any carrier may have possession of a firearm, airgun, pistol, imitation firearm, restricted weapon, ammunition, or explosive in the course of carriage under a contract of carriage:
(b)
any person who seizes any article, being a firearm, airgun, pistol, imitation firearm, restricted weapon, ammunition, or explosive, in the exercise of a power conferred on him by any Act may have possession of that article so long as he is acting in the exercise of that power and in connection with his official duties.
(2)
In subsection (1)(a), carrier includes any postal operator within the meaning of the Postal Services Act 1998.
Section 73(2): substituted, on 1 April 1998, by section 62(1) of the Postal Services Act 1998 (1998 No 2).