UPS agrees to end cigarette deliveries to individuals

United Pro Smoker's Newsletter ^ | 24 Oct 05 | MICHAEL GORMLEY

[beandog]

What concerns me is that the Postal Service says they'll alert officials about packages they suspect and leave it up to them to enforce. So you could have a package delivered to you and law enforcement right behind it ready to arrest you.

[SheLion]

What concerns me is that the Postal Service says they'll alert officials about packages they suspect and leave it up to them to enforce. So you could have a package delivered to you and law enforcement right behind it ready to arrest you.

This has us all half nuts.  It sure is mind boggling how "they" are trampling all over a legal product though.  One would think they had better things to do with their time.

[Just another Joe]

Samson Milde Shag is very close to Marlboro Mediums but it's a little pricey.
I stuff my own for about $1.80 a pack.

[The Foolkiller]

I wish you'd get a different pic-that one lone tube going the wrong way bugs the hell out of me. :D

[SheLion]

I wish you'd get a different pic-that one lone tube going the wrong way bugs the hell out of me. :D

Someone else told me the same thing. Sowwie! :)

[SheLion]

I wish you'd get a different pic-that one lone tube going the wrong way bugs the hell out of me. :D

How's this?

[hattend]

Now it's bent!

[SheLion]

Now it's bent!

That's ok. I won't be getting out my digital camera just to take one picture. You can live with this, right? heh! :)

[elkfersupper]

Well, I'm already an outlaw:

Living the outlaw life: Freeing your inner outlaw By Claire Wolfe

And, I own an F-350 and a 20' Haulmark. Count me in on the "contraband" transportation enterprise.

[blu]

OMG! I channeling a distant deceased relative, a member of the Purple Gang. Uh, I'm nowhere near the Detroit River...but our fishing boat..."Gramps, is that you? Where are the maps?"

[hattend]

Is Gramps in this picture?

"Gangsters: Purple Gang members hide their faces from the camera in May 1929 after they were arrested on charges of providing protection to Detroit narcotics dealers. Over the years gang members were accused of hijacking, bootlegging, extortion, kidnaping and murder."

[And to think, all they wanted was a legal drink...LOL!!]

[blu]

Well, since he never let us take pics of him....I couldn't say! We always suspected there was something nefarious in his past...long after he died the dirt was dished.

Although, the way that guy on the end is holding his hanky looks familiar. :)

[Garnet Dawn]

It's illegal and we all know it. If the reasoning behind all this is supposed to be for "the children", a legal nightmare is in the making. They've opened a can-of-worms that will eventually get out of control. I would like to know how a State Attorney General has the authority to negotiate or mandate policies on behalf of our Federal government with the United Parcel Service, an international company. I notice that no mention has yet been given to this new national US policy on the three websites referenced at the bottom of this story. I checked them thoroughly before posting.

On the Net:
Attorney General's Office: http://www.oag.state.ny.us
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives: http://www.atf.gov
UPS: http://www.ups.com

What kind of negotiation has taken place, or are our new Federal "agreements" now just made up as we go along? What documents are supposed to substantiate this new policy, since this announcement has already been released to the national press? Are we to believe UPS has based this change upon a handshake agreement with Spitzer? One more minor detail, how can this agreement be reconciled with our Constitution?

Of course UPS hasn't been able to deliver cigarettes to Illinois, as far as I know, for about a year now. The list of states requiring delivery via "USPS Priority Mail" grows longer every time I order cigarettes. Looks like the states are running D.C. right now...... Garnet Dawn

[RandallFlagg]

This is pure crap.
Harassment. Discrimination. Invasion of privacy.
WHY do we smokers keep right on taking it again and again?!

[oceanview]

I doubt that. since almost all of UPS business comes from deliveries of goods purchased in one state, delivered to another state - what will they have left if this decision extends to every product under the sun? just business to business deliveries? they will be about 1/10th their size if that happens.

[nralife]

"Samson Milde Shag is very close to Marlboro Mediums but it's a little pricey. I stuff my own for about $1.80 a pack."



Thanks for the tip. I really should quit smoking. I think I'll order the gadgets and makings anyway one of these days. They could come in handy in lots of situations.

I wonder why nobody has pinged Randall Flag to this thread yet? SheLion, is he your husband? He is a big promoter of stuff your owns here.

[kidd]

Anyone want to make a bet on how long before cigerettes and other tobacco products are illegal?

Never.

It is a tremendous source of taxes revenue. Users get addicted, then pay a ton of taxes to maintain the habit. Its more likely that meth will become legal before tobbaco is made illegal.

[RandallFlagg]

SheLion's the one who turned me onto RYO.

[nralife]

There you are! lol

Do you happen to know of anything besides Samson Milde Shag that resembles Marlboros? Joe says it is kind of pricey. You may have posted about this in the past, but I have forgotten what you said.

[RandallFlagg]

Well, I never really liked Marlboros, but my Wife smoked Marlboro lights and she switched to the Farmer's Gold light when I started rolling my own. I smoke the full flavor Farmer's Gold.