Treat the letters from the revenuers just like jury duty notices - they need to prove you received it......IOW if it don't come 'return receipt requested' no one can prove you every got it.
What's good about my postal delivery is that my mailbox sits across the street and the only time the mailman brings my mail into the garage is when I have a package.
And even if they ring the bell for me to sign something, I don't answer the door. They have to leave a slip. So, I would be forewarned or if the notice is in the box, I guess I won't see it. :)
I haven't ordered cigarettes online yet, so I am not too worried. And if Maine wants to collect the .25 cent surcharge for each bag of tobacco I ever ordered, it's still their word against mine and if they are that hard up for .25 cents per bag, Maine is in bigger trouble then I had thought.
MY fear is that they'll tax per pack from the bag ordered (2.3 cartons per bag: 403 packs X whatever the tax is per pack = $$$$$). If they do that, I'm skrooed.
I used to order from Senecasmokes.com, but they upped the price and I took the plunge into RYO; and have never regretted it.
That little tip about the jury duty came from an attorney friend of my husband's about 20 years ago - and it still holds true.
My mailbox is on my side of the road, but if I'm getting a package the mail carrier has to pull up into the driveway. she and I get along really good, and if I get something that has to be signed for that I don't want, she just fills out the little slip of paper and then I decided if I want to go pick it up or let it be sent back :)
I've never ordered cigarettes online, but hubby does order cigars that way and they come UPS. I do notice that none of these tax grabs we have been reading so much about mention cigars, only cigarettes........I wonder why? (rhetorical question)