Sounds like I should pack up the trunk with tins and head on down to the rio. Dottie, I'll be the guy with the beard. I'll just toss the tins across the river. Bring a catchers mit, I can throw pretty hard.
Thanks Cosmic, but you’d have to be able to throw at least 12 miles, because in Mexico there are two borders, and it’s the one 12 miles inland that counts!
Dottie, forgive my ignorance but I've done little in the way of international travel. Is it not possible to have tobacco shipped into Mexico, period? Is it legal to have a visitor from the US carry tins across? Just seems ridiculous to me.
Settersbrace, it is specifically pipe tobacco that is prohibited to be shipped into Mexico, cigarettes and cigars are permitted in small quantities by mail or courier; whether it ever gets to you or not is another question!
By car 1 tin per person, by plane 4 tins per person.
Where do you live Dot? I can ask one of our LatAm guys to bring some next time they go to Mexico.
Andy
I live in Mexico City, andystewart, and if anyone’s coming down this way the limit is 200 grams, which comes out to 4 tins per person. I would be thrilled to get some Dunhill EMP, Old Dublin and Irish Oak from Peterson and a tin of something in a flake.
No imports?! I guess I should stop complaining about the selection in Peru. At least I can order off the internet, even if the shipping does come out to $5 a tin.
As for Peru, pipesinperu, if it was just a question of $5 a tin shipping, I would be in heaven!
On the good side Cigar Leaf is next to free at $4 per Kilo wholesale. I just picked 500 grms for under $8, but man can't live on Cigar Leaf alone!
Thanks to all for your concern, let the truth be know and may the Lord have Mercy on me!
I have heard of people claiming to have had an order get through the mail as undeclared, but I’m not that much of a risk taker.
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