[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.

[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