I don't know anyone. But you have a great idea to drive whenever you can. As I posted on here, I drove about 1400 miles (twice) round trip to have my Model 21 engraved by Pauline Muerelle last year. Once to drop it off and the second trip to pick it up. It did cost me about $400 in toll road fees to drive back and forth through Pennsylvania twice. But I did get to see Connecticut.
Government stated cost of mileage ......... $.67/mile.
1400 X $.67 = $938
Times two equals $1876
Plus $400 tolls and meals would be $2300
Makes USPS package rates look pretty tame to a reasonable person.
By the way Stanton, I finally took the time to figure out how much it actually cost to drive to Connecticut. Twice. Let's start with gasoline. (Read the post below) The fuel range on both cars I used was probably about 400+ miles on a tank full of gas which means I filled up twice each way. So, I would have spent about $90.00 in gas one way. Multiply that times four and you get $360.00 on both round trips TOTAL. Not the $1876 dollars that you figured. Around $370.00 TOTAL in car rentals for both trips. ($180.00 + dollars each round trip.) And less than $360.00 toll fees TOTAL for both trips. The toll fees were less than $90.00 each way. ($87.00) I still have the receipts. NOT the exuberant total keith said. I travel several months out of the year and I always eat at McDonald's to insure getting the food I enjoy. And a clean rest room. I stop at the drive-thru and eat while I drive most of the time. Plus, driving the route I took insures not getting lost, no stops and starts and getting there and back ASAP because I had my dog (pup) with me both trips. So the total cost would be somewhere about half of what you figured. Probably. $11-1200.00 TOTAL for both trips. Not counting probably less than $60.00 on food each trip. Not $2300.00 as you said. Not to mention that the gun I took was the most important gun to me and I wasn't going to take any chances of something happening to it in shipment after hearing all the horror stories I have heard about shipping a gun. Plus I had a great mini-vacation. I travel approximately 10,000 miles a year, so I know HOW I like to travel and what the best way for me to travel is. And I didn't want to take the chance of having an irate postal worker steal or destroy my $8-9000.00 gun like we hear happens so many times on this board. I didn't just send a couple pieces of wood in the mail like the OP. I wanted to ship an entire gun. Big difference!
