Ban on shipment of tobacco for overseas!

[T.G]

Not much you can do if the brass has sent down a policy on it, but if you read that bill closely, you'll note that it applies only to sales and that non-commercial personal shipments are explicitly exempted.

(Sec. 3) Amends the federal criminal code to treat cigarettes and smokeless tobacco as nonmailable matter and prohibit their deposit into the U.S. mails. Requires the USPS to refuse to accept for delivery or transmit through the mails any package that it knows or has reasonable cause to believe contains any cigarettes or smokeless tobacco made nonmailable by this Act. Exempts from such prohibition: (1) cigars; and (2) mailings within the states of Alaska or Hawaii; (3) mailings for business purposes between legally operating tobacco businesses and by individuals for noncommercial purposes; or (4) mailings for consumer testing by manufacturers or the federal government. Requires the Postmaster General to issue a final rule to establish the standards and requirements applicable to tobacco products mailed for business purposes.

If I send you a gift of a carton of Marlboros for personal consumption, it's non-commercial since it's a gift, not a sale, and I paid all taxes when I purchased them, and you're not re-selling them.

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by T.G

Not much you can do if the brass has sent down a policy on it, but if you read that bill closely, you'll note that it applies only to sales and that non-commercial personal shipments are explicitly exempted.



If I send you a gift of a carton of Marlboros for personal consumption, it's non-commercial since it's a gift, not a sale, and I paid all taxes when I purchased them, and you're not re-selling them.

No worries.