Shipping Tobacco
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This person said it wasn't allowed. They were wrong. It's both legal and allowed. They made up a rule. There's zero reason for you to follow it. maybe you're not telling us the full story? It wasn't odd to start, but it is beginning to be so.
25 million domestic parcels are handled a day. Xray…no way. Thats about 300 per second in a 24 hour day.
Usps cant touch more than one percent of mail fraud. They have more to do than worry about someone shipping a few tins to a family member.
Usps cant touch more than one percent of mail fraud. They have more to do than worry about someone shipping a few tins to a family member.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory...
In the end, I'll step up to the occasion of defending our freedom to live lives that do no harm to ourselves and others. However, I'll choose to do this through the system - not in spite of it.
Too many confuse accountability as an encroachment of freedoms. This is unfortunately one of the demises of freedom.
Thanks to all for your help with understanding what is and is not legal regarding shipping tobacco. In the end, I will work alongside my fellow citizens (including the less knowledgeable workers at USPS) to ship my tobacco to my brother (and others).
Agreed. If they don't know what they are saying according to their own rules, maybe there is poor training and their supervisor needs to be informed.
Anyway, regardless, not worth the fight here or there. This has certainly gotten odd.
Do not attribute malfeasance to a lack of training when personal ideology and malicious intent are the more likely culprits. Acquiescence to misbehaving government workers is the most insidious way to surrender your freedoms. Don’t do it.
I don't have the reference off-hand, but they DID used to ship children via the postal service. It can be found if you look it up.............................
Use the USPS online shipping system if you can print your own labels. I box, purchase and label everything at home and just drop the box off at the clerk ready to go. Since I don't ship cigarettes or smokeless tobacco (restricted items), you don't need to declare package contents as the shipped items don't fall within the required categories for declaration.
Remove the worker out of your equation and then they can't incorrectly block you purposely or ignorantly.
Don’t get all torqued about mailing tobacco. Just confirm, if asked, that there’s nothing hazardous in the package.
Mail it.
Mail it.
I cannot even imagine how much tobacco ive shipped over the years.
From selling, gifting, box passes......
And the amount shipped to me!!!! I don't want to know.
Ive shipped to England, Canada, South Africa and Australia and probably 30 different states in the US.
From selling, gifting, box passes......
And the amount shipped to me!!!! I don't want to know.
Ive shipped to England, Canada, South Africa and Australia and probably 30 different states in the US.
The real question is, how do you ship US-to-England/Europe? It's not illegal, but it seems everyone refuses to offer the service. And yet I see that some people get it accomplished anyways. How?
Its not that its illegal to ship to the EU. There are limited amounts allowed and large import fees. Often the amount permitted is not worth the postage.
No I dont know. Honestly, there are so many laws and they vary from country to country. As a shipper I would decline too. Its just not worth bothering with and then you get stuck dealing with packages that people wont pay customs on when they get slammed with a huge fee. Im not suprised they wont ship it. Its not worth their time and effort.
I just put it in a box and drop it off in the post office container that accepts packages. No people involved...of course I print my own labels..
Didn't used to be!
When People Used the Postal Service to 'Mail' Their Children | HISTORY
In the early days of U.S. parcel service, there weren’t clear guidelines about what you could and couldn’t mail.
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