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Postal Service Considers Cutting Into Alcohol Shipping Business
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2013/08/postal-service-considers-cutting-into-alcohol-shipping-business/ ^ | 8/03/13

Posted on 08/03/2013 2:18:28 PM PDT by Libloather

Edited on 08/03/2013 2:31:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Private carriers have been shipping alcohol for decades, but the postal service is prevented by law from engaging in the same business.

On Thursday, Postmaster General Patrick Donahue said he hopes the agency can deliver alcoholic beverages and thereby raise $50 million a year.


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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: alcohol; postal; service; shipping
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And they'll fold, spindle and mutilate it? No thanks.
1 posted on 08/03/2013 2:18:28 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I wouldn’t trust these government slugs with the shipping of a bottle of Boones Farm Strawberry.

More than likely it would be stolen. Just like the thieves at TSA do right now.


2 posted on 08/03/2013 2:21:31 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Libloather

How about dope? LOL


3 posted on 08/03/2013 2:22:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: Libloather

People used to receive packages with alcohol in them on the ship all the time! You mean that was not just against Navy Regs? Who knew!?


4 posted on 08/03/2013 2:22:27 PM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: Libloather

I’ll drink to that!


5 posted on 08/03/2013 2:24:52 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (</sarcasm>)
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To: Libloather
As the U.S. Postal Service faces $15 billion in losses this year.....Patrick Donahue said he hopes the agency can deliver alcoholic beverages and thereby raise $50 million a year.

Gubmn't and math don't mix.
6 posted on 08/03/2013 2:25:48 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: Libloather

Awesome. Only $14,950,000,000.00 to go!
Maybe they can do a mail-a-thon?


7 posted on 08/03/2013 2:25:49 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Libloather

Or steal it.


8 posted on 08/03/2013 2:26:47 PM PDT by rabidralph (Gray State Movie)
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To: Libloather

They will sub-contract the “Express Delivery” to NASCAR’s Historic Division.

Yeeehaaaa!


9 posted on 08/03/2013 2:27:29 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: Libloather
Yes, because the private sector is TOTALLY incapable of providing transportation of alcoholic beverages, what we really really need in this nation is a quasi-governmental agency grabbing a huge portion of this business.


10 posted on 08/03/2013 2:29:03 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Libloather

Time for them to start shipping guns, too.


11 posted on 08/03/2013 2:39:34 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Universal Background Check -> Registration -> Confiscation -> Oppression -> Extermination)
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They do ship guns. Only between FFL holders.


12 posted on 08/03/2013 2:42:43 PM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: unixfox

I wouldn’t trust these government slugs with the shipping of a bottle of Boones Farm Strawberry.


LOL!

You’re exactly right.


13 posted on 08/03/2013 3:10:40 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Libloather

Another theft opportunity for the sticky-fingers Postal “workers.” No thanks!


14 posted on 08/03/2013 3:15:04 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Libloather

Actually when it comes to packages, I have better luck with USPS than UPS or FedEx and it’s cheaper.

I send model airplanes through the mail and all arrive perfect.

I think they would do just as well with beverages...as long as they aren’t carbonated.


15 posted on 08/03/2013 3:21:21 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: unixfox

Thankfully most postal workers aren’t slugs. And those who are slugs tend to avoid work that involves handling parcels or any other heavy effort.


16 posted on 08/03/2013 3:27:48 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Libloather

Ever notice that when the gummint dabbles in commerce, it involved something addictive or that BLOWS UP...?


17 posted on 08/03/2013 3:37:55 PM PDT by gaijin
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And you think there are no thieves at Fedex or UPS? It must be wonderful where you live cause I have had packages stolen by employees of both these carriers.


18 posted on 08/03/2013 3:56:09 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: gaijin

Recipients must show ID that they are over 21.
It is too much of an inconvenience for them to show ID to register to vote.

I’m glad AG Holder & ‘Bama have their priorities straight.


19 posted on 08/03/2013 4:14:39 PM PDT by alpo (What would Selco do?)
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To: Libloather
So when is the USPS going to start shipping ammunition again to citizens? The libtards in charge of the USPS have done it to themselves.
20 posted on 08/03/2013 4:28:45 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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