PROPOSED SHIPPING CODE

[Jerry D Mead]

. I take strong exception to the wording of Code #5, which requires checking of i.d. by shippers...why should a freight company be held to a higher standard than other adult beverage sellers or servers, who are only required to determine that the person is of legal age. The way you word it, they'll all be behaving like stupid DHL...requiring picture i.d. of white haired old ladies and other senior citizens...not once, but again and again...when it's the same driver delivering to the same "oldie." That's stupid.

Also...if everyone does as you say and obeys all the laws...what's the point? There's no conflict. There's no reason for CFT, Free The Grapes or any of the rest of it. Just say, as you have, "Obey All The Laws," and we can can all pack up and go home. The states will just keep passing more laws...all the licensees will fall in line...and the little guys will soon be out of business and consumers will have fewer and fewer ways to receive the products they want.

Some laws deserve to be ignored or broken...and when they become so commonly ignored and broken by the masses, they are more likely to be changed.

The states already are staking out liquor stores across state lines and then following their citizens (identified by the license plates) back across the state line and then citing them and confiscating the adult beverages in their possession. (In some states, the law would actually permit them to confiscate the vehicle!)

Next, thing, they'll be searching folks coming in on flights from wine producing states (44 of them) and confiscating their souvenir wines purchased in Napa Valley or Long Island wine countries.

That ought to make them scream...

The Wine Curmudgeon


[This message has been edited by Wine Curmudgeon (edited 01-12-99).]