KarlH said
For the future, you need to find a good old fashioned FFL, I have two that do transfers for 20 dollars for "normal" firearms and one of them has their SOT and does 50 dollar transfers for class III items(full autos, suppressors, etc.) when everyone else around starts at twice that and up.  I used to have a really good relationship with an older gentleman that only charged me 5 dollars and a couple times nothing for a transfer.  Sadly he passed from cancer. 

Shipping a handgun yourself has to go FedEx next day air or UPS next day air, next day is their requirement and not a federal requirement due to their losses in theft back when they did ground shipping for handguns.  Their rates are astronomical and you can't ship from just any office, have to find a hub.  The two Dan's I sold to  members of this board recently went through the US post office, FFL's can ship handguns that way, individuals cannot.  The pistol pack I sold to KurtB, was in an oversize box, extremely well packed, and weighed just over 15lbs on my FFL's postal scale.  Including her 20 dollar transfer fee the total cost to ship it was just a few pennies from 70 dollars, the actual postal charge was a few pennies shy of 50.  That package would have been way north of 200 dollars with fedex and ups.  The two barrel 41 mag(no case) I sold to another member here was less than 40 dollars including the transfer fee, Fedex quoted me over 100 dollars on that one.

  

If you want to follow FedEx’s policy you must use a dealer to ship firearms. They changed their policy back in December. Look it up on their site if you don’t believe me. Of course many ignore it but if it goes missing you’re SOL. 

I shipped the 15 inch M15 to Kurt via my dealer who used USPS. Charged me $80 for everything. Packaging and shipping etc

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