[SheLion]

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.

[SheLion]

Still safe with US Mail Delivery!

[2banana]

How about lower cig taxes and people will buy them from the corner grocery again...

[CSM]

"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?

[umgud]

"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.

[Pondman88]

Eliot Spitzer is one scary man.

[eyespysomething]

Anyone want to make a bet on how long before cigerettes and other tobacco products are illegal? I say 10 years or less.

[MortMan]

I always thought congress had the power to regulate interstate congress, not a megalomaniac attorney general from a failed northeastern state.

[visualops]

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!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"There could be souvenirs in the package. We don't know because we can't see inside the package,"...yet.

[sergeantdave]

This jerk is interferring with the interstate commerce. He is prohibiting the interstate sales and delivery of a legal product and the courts should shoot this down.

The again, I'm sure our politically charged courts will discover a penumbra floating around Saturn that allows another chunk of our freedom being subverted by a fascist attorney general.

[mass55th]

If Spitzer is so intent on wiping out deliveries of cigarettes to regular citizens, he should start with the state's prison system. When I retired two years ago, inmates were allowed to buy cigarettes through facility commissaries. At that time, I was under the impression that inmates paid no tax on the tobacco products they bought. Although they weren't allowed to smoke on the dorms, they were able to smoke outside the buildings. According to the departmental directive #4911 dated August 16, 2005, they were still allowed to receive up to two cartons of cigarettes a month from visitors either through the mail or on visits. Is Spitzer going to crack down on the delivery of cigarettes that arrive at facilities through the regular post office? He wants to be Governor so bad, he should start cleaning up in the prison system before he goes after John Q. Public.

[mysterio]

Looks like it's fedex then.

[JoeGar]

Isn't "under-taxes cigarettes" an oxymoron?

[hattend]

How can a guy in New York stop interstate commerce in 49 other states?

I don't understand how that is Constitutional.

[RandallFlagg]

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