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Family and friends have suddenly found themselves blocked from shipping cigarettes and other tobacco products to American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq because of a new law meant to hamper smuggling and underage sales through the mail.
Overreach: what government does best.
August 12th, 2010 at 8:39 am
A buddy of mine spent some of his Army time in Korea, he HATED the cigaretts you could buy there. No wonder he never asked me to mail him a carton….
August 12th, 2010 at 10:51 am
Just another way for the USPS to lose money. And alienate potential customers.
Stranger
August 12th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Please. You can bypass this ridiculousness easily. Merely buy american cigarettes online in europe and have them shipped to the troops. Sure it will cost more but most of the people sending such things are family members anyhow. I never understand americans. So quick to give in without looking for a way around the rules. The anti trafficking law is mere inconvenience for someone like me. Different world different mindset.
August 12th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
I got a shipment of cigars from Cigars International after the law went into effect… but if my next shipment doesn’t make it here, there will be hell to pay. Baghdad sucks plenty as it is without my gov’t making it worse.
August 12th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Wow, I added that in the comments yesterday! Interwebs peoples noticed what I put up! Yayz!
But really, thanks for noticing and taking the time to track the story down the rest of the way and post it.
August 12th, 2010 at 11:00 pm
In NY it was Chuck U. Schumers lackey Kirsten Gillibrand who stood in front of the cameras and said that outlawing sales of tobacco products through the USPS was so that kids could not buy cigarettes online. She somehow managed to maintain a straight face while she dealt a death-blow to Native American tobacco sales to non-natives. What an absolute and utter joke these democrats are. I live in NY and am taking the Tennessee bar exam so I can move somewhere that has both natural beauty and political sensibility.
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article100001.ece
August 13th, 2010 at 1:48 am
Now if they lift the smoking ban on submarines, maybe they might not have to worry about a Trident coming through the Capital Dome and nuking their dumb butts because the Crew is having a Nicotine Fit!
Friend Weer’d, in the fall of 1980, after a 3 day in-port in South Korea, I paid $20 for a PACK of South Korean smokes because I misjudged how much I needed for the Patrol, and yes, they really, really SUCK! This, of course helped to keep a Polaris A-3 from being accidently launched and hitting the Capital Dome.. just kidding, the A-3 didn’t have the range of a Trident…..