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UPS agrees to end cigarette deliveries to individuals
United Pro Smoker's Newsletter ^
| 24 Oct 05
| MICHAEL GORMLEY
Posted on 10/25/2005 6:59:09 AM PDT by SheLion
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The Postal Service can't stop delivery even if it suspects a package clearly marked as coming from a retailer contains untaxed cigarettes, said Postal Service spokesman Gerry McKiernan. "There could be souvenirs in the package. We don't know because we can't see inside the package," he said.
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posted on
10/25/2005 6:59:10 AM PDT
by
SheLion
To: Just another Joe; Madame Dufarge; MeeknMing; steve50; Cantiloper; metesky; kattracks; ...
Still safe with US Mail Delivery!
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:00:32 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: All
Well, here is one alternative:Can't stand the high taxes?
Afraid to order off of the Internet?
Then start rolling your own!!! I find everything but the machine downtown at the local Smoke Shop. Also, Rite Aid and grocery stores also sell the bags of tobacco and the filtered tubes.
I roll out a beautiful carton for a little under $8 dollars. Premiums in my state are now up to $45-$50 a carton. Can you imagine the money I have saved over the past 4 years since I now roll my own? It's mind boggling.
under $50.00
$5.75 a bag
$1.99 for 200 filtered tubes
and
Smokers United
Roll Your Own Tobacco Store
Roll Your Own Magazine
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:01:15 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
How about lower cig taxes and people will buy them from the corner grocery again...
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:05:00 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: SheLion
"States lose more than $1 billion a year in tax revenue from Internet tobacco sales,...."
How does a state loose revenue? Are they somehow entitled to the earnings of others, even before the money is earned? What is the definition of slavery?
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:05:26 AM PDT
by
CSM
(When laws are written, they apply to ALL...Not just the yucky people you don't like. - HairOfTheDog)
To: SheLion
"Internet cigarette junk food traffickers are increasingly using the federal mail system to distribute their wares," Spitzer said. He said the Postal Service "clearly" has the authority to refuse to deliver cigarettes snacks to individual smokers snackers.
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:06:23 AM PDT
by
umgud
(Comment removed by poster before moderator could get to it)
To: SheLion
Eliot Spitzer is one scary man.
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:08:32 AM PDT
by
Pondman88
To: SheLion
Anyone want to make a bet on how long before cigerettes and other tobacco products are illegal? I say 10 years or less.
To: 2banana
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:08:59 AM PDT
by
Flyer
(The Internet, my dog and you ~ http://dahtcom.com/masoncam/)
To: 2banana
How about lower cig taxes and people will buy them from the corner grocery again...To easy. Do you really expect our lawmakers to have that many smarts? I sure don't. :(
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:11:06 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
I always thought congress had the power to regulate interstate congress, not a megalomaniac attorney general from a failed northeastern state.
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:11:07 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(Eschew Obfuscation)
To: SheLion
Know of any tobacco that tastes like Marlboros or Marlboro Lights?
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:11:14 AM PDT
by
nralife
To: CSM
How does a state loose revenue? Are they somehow entitled to the earnings of others, even before the money is earned? What is the definition of slavery?The lawmakers are spending our money faster then we can make it?
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:12:35 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: 2banana
Why doesn't Eliot Spitzer get a real job. Can't he find something more productive to do? And which Constitution gives him the authority to interfere with Interstate Commerce?
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:12:47 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(The modern Democrat Party - a toxic stew of mental illness, cultism, and organized crime.)
To: eyespysomething
Anyone want to make a bet on how long before cigerettes and other tobacco products are illegal? I say 10 years or less.Yet we are to be happy with gay rights and the legal sale of pot and alcohol?
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:13:57 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: umgud
... and this immediately leads the nanny-statists to one conclusion: Spitzer for president!
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:14:24 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(Hence, etc.)
To: SheLion
We don't know because we can't see inside the package
It's just a matter of time before Congress feels the need to start scanning packages in the hopes of finding something taxable.
Who cares what's streaming over the borders, we want those frackin' tax revenues!
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:14:36 AM PDT
by
visualops
(www.visualops.com)
To: eyespysomething
Of course if they do this, all they do is provide a way to get smokers thier cigarettes even cheaper.
Think prohibition. The Kennedy's made a fortune bootlegging during that era.
Maybe that's it, the Democrat's rich morons, are running out of money, and need some bootlegging to get them rolling in the green again..
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:14:36 AM PDT
by
Kidan
(www.krashpad.com)
To: SheLion
Still safe with US Mail Delivery!Unfortunately, Congress is trying to put a stop to that. Since the United States Postal Service will deliver tobacco products, HR 2813 was introduced in the House on June 8, 2005 "to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products non-mailable".
For more information, go to thomas.loc.gov and do a search using the bill number.
To: CSM
I received this in email not too long ago:
You do realize that the state of New York, or any state, cannot collect taxes on sales from other states, dont you?
Article 1, section 9 of the Constitution for the United States of America, paragraph 5 states simply: No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
Aint it amazing how our constitution is ignored? I think it should be required reading in our schools and a requirement that one is well-versed in our Bill of Rights before one can get a drivers license or a job. However, the government frowns on a truly educated society, especially one that is educated on their rights.
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posted on
10/25/2005 7:15:29 AM PDT
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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