Canada

So much this! If someone is there trying to sell their gun for whatever reason, why would management believe there's any chance of conflict? Plus, after a couple of days, the staff will be far more well-armed (have access to more arms) than the sellers!

But, yeah, that's a tasty target for just about any criminal element in the area.

The average Canada Post staff is also probably not trained to ensure firearms are safe. If a gun were to be brought in the staff would have to know how to handle, unload and store firearms. This knowledge would still be needed if guns were brought in with locks as some models may still hold one in the chamber.

I love in the land where jacked-up coal-rolling pavement princesses are collaged in fuck Justin, pro convoy, and anti-vax decals.

I think there isn't a danger from the people turn in their guns, but I would not be surprised if someone decided that the feds can't have their gun, but can have some bullets.

Which is still probably a much lower risk that just getting jacked.

Both.

I don't think the issue is whether the guns are safe to ship or not, Canada Post figured out how to safely ship guns from both retailers and individuals years ago.

And the way I read this, it doesn't sound like the issue of conflict is from licensed owners either because it sounds like we'll be expected to simply drop off boxes with guns in them so those that don't want to participate simply won't show up to the post office (aka avoid the conflict all together).

If I'm wrong and the government actually expects Canada Post carriers to go door to door bringing people boxes and say "pack up your guns right now and bring the box back out to me" that's an entirely different story and way, way outside of Canada Post's regular duties. They definitely aren't equipped or trained for that sort of thing; that's the type of thing you'd expect police to do.

I think the fear of conflict is because everyone and their grandma will know when there are tons guns flooding into post offices all at once and both post offices and carrier trucks will become prime targets for criminals. The locations and vehicles aren't designed to resist that type of intrusion and the staff aren't trained or equip to deal with it (I'm sure there are a few locations/vehicle that are but not only is it a very large, spread out volume to begin with, it's not hard to find info from industry groups claiming that the Liberal estimate for the number of affected guns is quite low).