When did They Quit Including Matches With Orders?

[olewaylon]

I don't always use matches when smoking but I love getting them with my orders. I've noticed that one of the leading online tobacco companies who always used to include them with each order has stopped. Three orders with no matches. Maybe i should have posted this in the grinds my gears thread.
Edit: Corrected capitalization in title per Rule #9. L.

Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine

 

[inteus]

I remember getting a note from P&C about the FAA or some federal agency no longer allowing matches through the mail (USPS) or something to that effect. I'm at work, otherwise I'd go look for the note.

 

[inteus]

Not the FAA. What am I thinking?

 

[olewaylon]

Damn. I love freebies.

 

[papipeguy]

I believe inteus is on the right track. Probably a USPS rule. When you're in the red, losing a postal truck to fire puts a further dent in the budget.

 

[canadianbacon]

I would agree that it is a safety thing. I know Federal Ammunition had an issue with how their primers were packaged. I guess some primers went off in shipping and caused a mess. Now they are packaged in a tray, with each primer having their own compartment, and they are all on their side. I Don't buy federal primers for the simple fact that they don't just dump in the primer tray anymore.
I'm sure there is some idiot with a clipboard making up unnecessary rules for things like this.

 

[petes03]

You must be referring to P&C. I haven't got any either. I've also not received a catalog with my last few orders either, and I usually look forward to those!

 

[sfsteves]

I too got a note from P&C saying that federal regulations have now precluded their being able to include matches with an order. One wonders just how many problems have actually occurred from a small container of matches being included in a carton of merchandise or whether this new regulation is the product of some over-imaginative bureaucrat at the US Department of Government Nannies ... it makes one ponder the future we're stampeding toward with the government regulating an ever-increasing number of aspects of our lives ...

 

[terrygoldman123]

You can order wooden matches from Amazon (like Swan Vestas and Diamond) and they ship just fine. Not free of course but they ship.

 

[mikestanley]

A golf course I used to play regularly stopped putting drinking water on the course. His reason? He read an article that said terrorists might contaminate such "soft targets". I suspect the article really said" Why give it away when you can sell it"? Heck, I have to ask for matches at my local B&Ms when I make a purchase. One seems to always give them without asking with cigar purchases. I do know that the list of questions about the contents that USPS asks when you ship a package has gotten longer recently.
Mike S.

 

[blueeyedogre]

Here in Canuckistan stores are required to charge for matches as giving them away is "promoting smoking" which is illegal here. That being said it's rare a few boxes don't find their way into most bags.

 

[crazypipe]

Sometimes I get them sometimes I don't , really don't care . :D

 

[inteus]

I believe this only affects USPS, not FedEx, UPS, etc.

 

[onepyrotec]

Instead of wondering if you will or won't comply with a USPS or any govt. regulation, the easiest is not to ship.
From the USPS website.
Examples of household products that may be mailable but have specific restrictions…
Aerosols

Lithium Batteries

Nail Polish

Perfumes containing alcohol

Pool Chemicals

Paints

Matches

Certain Glues

 

[blendtobac]

Believe it or not, it's not the matches that are causing the problem, it's the striking material on the outside of the box. It's hard to imagine. We've shipped matches for years and never heard of a problem with any of the packages, but there are greater minds at work here than mine.
Russ

 

[sfsteves]

russ said:

"... there are greater minds at work here than mine."

I don't believe that for a second ... the rules are being made by mindless bureaucrats whose very existence depends on their being active in 'improving' things ... and the more 'improvement' we get from them, the more constricted our lives become. It isn't necessary for them to have an actual problem to deal with ... for most of them, actual problems are too few and far between ... so, they deal with possible , or potential (translation: imaginary) problems.

 

[pipestud]

The matches thing doesn't bother me since I use lighters. But, don't you just hate it when you buy a $350 handmade pipe and don't get a free pipe cleaner to go along with it? :wink:
Pipestud

 

[pylorns]

@sfsteves he was being facetious.