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Fed X ban on tobacco shipping

RhamlinRhamlin Posts: 9,022 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Just read about this ( thanks NY). I sure hope UPS and USPS doesn't follow suit. 

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  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Even if the usps did everyone would still do it. They don't have tobacco sniffing dogs to find your cigars. 
    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • RhamlinRhamlin Posts: 9,022 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep but would ccom be willing to break the law by removing cigar from their shipping label? That's the biggie. 
  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭✭
    got me there. i was only thinking of us
    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • NolagizmoNolagizmo Posts: 1,914 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Fed Ex needs to ban overcharging people...
    "Come party with me in Tennessee for my birthday July we can smoke in the Smokey's."
  • Gray4linesGray4lines Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's all about taxes. NY claims they lost out on tobacco taxes that were purchased (I assume out of state) and delivered by Fedex, yet never taxed.  $235 million case! $10 mil in lost taxes. Most of the rest is penalties...

    I am not sure if any other states' laws apply similarly or what this means for shipping.  Lots of lost business if they drop all tobacco shipments.
    LLA - Lancero Lovers of America
  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,802 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If we could take all the politicians in NY and CA and ship them to Syria...
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  • jarublajarubla Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sauce:

    http://www.fedex.com/us/freight/rulestariff/prohibited_articles.html

    Moar reading:

    http://thecigarauthority.com/fedex-to-ban-shipments-of-tobacco/
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  • YankeeManYankeeMan Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Amos_Umwhat said:
    If we could take all the politicians in NY and CA and ship them to Syria...
    Syria is having enough probems!
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