Just imagine living somewhere with no B&Ms, where on line tobacco ordering is strickly prohibited due to import laws, and where there is only one known brand of pipes that are way over priced.
This has been my situation for over a year and unless you've experienced it, you can't really understand how important the help is I get from international travelers. Every time someone mentions traveling from Mexico to the U.S. or Europe, I promptly ask if they would be so kind as to pick up some tins of tobacco for me. Often, but not always, the answer is yes. Then I have to go through the trouble of tracking down a B&M close to the neighborhood where the traveler will be staying and calling ahead to check the availability and prices of pipe tobacco brands.
In the last year I've had travelers bring me pipe tobacco from Gallway, Ireland; Phoenix, Arizona; Johnston, Rhode Island; Budapest, Hungary; New York, New York; and Los Angeles, California. In only one case I got exactly what I had ordered, but I was alway thrilled to get real pipe tobacco to try, no matter what brand!
Proposed Sticky
As a way of serving those of the Pipe Magazine community who have little or no access to decent pipe tobacco, I would like to see a thread that allowed members to post when and where they were traveling so these less fortunate souls could get the opportunity to send a PM and try to arrange an in person or local delivery of some of the marvelous tobaccos of which so many other members have such easy access.
It is hard to imagine what it is like for an avid pipe smoker to have to go to such great lengths just to get a decent tin of tobacco!
For my post number 1001, I send out this plea, as I know there are many other members living in a similar situation.
This has been my situation for over a year and unless you've experienced it, you can't really understand how important the help is I get from international travelers. Every time someone mentions traveling from Mexico to the U.S. or Europe, I promptly ask if they would be so kind as to pick up some tins of tobacco for me. Often, but not always, the answer is yes. Then I have to go through the trouble of tracking down a B&M close to the neighborhood where the traveler will be staying and calling ahead to check the availability and prices of pipe tobacco brands.
In the last year I've had travelers bring me pipe tobacco from Gallway, Ireland; Phoenix, Arizona; Johnston, Rhode Island; Budapest, Hungary; New York, New York; and Los Angeles, California. In only one case I got exactly what I had ordered, but I was alway thrilled to get real pipe tobacco to try, no matter what brand!
Proposed Sticky
As a way of serving those of the Pipe Magazine community who have little or no access to decent pipe tobacco, I would like to see a thread that allowed members to post when and where they were traveling so these less fortunate souls could get the opportunity to send a PM and try to arrange an in person or local delivery of some of the marvelous tobaccos of which so many other members have such easy access.
It is hard to imagine what it is like for an avid pipe smoker to have to go to such great lengths just to get a decent tin of tobacco!
For my post number 1001, I send out this plea, as I know there are many other members living in a similar situation.