Okay, I know the USPS has a longstanding rule that they cannot ship alcohol ... and I suppose if the sender hadn't been so specific about the content of this Christmas package , it wouldn't have even been questioned ... but doesn't this seem a bit ridiculous?!?
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I went to the Red Lion Post Office to send our Christmas gifts to my son in Nashville. What an ordeal, most of the stuff was OK, at least that's what I thought. They ask what you are sending to make sure you're not sending a bomb or other illegal stuff, and I didn't think I was, but one of the things I was sending was Axe body spray, a gift box from Walmart. I guess that was my down fall.
I neglected to read the ingredients. I did not know that Pennsylvania has a law about sending alcohol through the mail. Well, I did know, but I was not sending a bottle of Scotch, I was sending an Axe Gift Box, but sadly the body spray was my downfall. It seems that one of the ingredients for the body spray is alcohol, and state law says you cannot send alcohol through the mail.
Really, are you kidding me, how am I to know the ingredients of Axe body spray? Does anyone even care about the ingredients? Well, it seems the post office does -- and they would not let me send it with the other things in the Christmas box for my son. The woman who informed us our gift was illegal to send was nice, I have no complaints, but really, I can not send this body spray. She suggested we should go to UPS. They are much kinder and don't have the same restrictions, and she was right. UPS isn't as concerned about the ingredients of Axe body spray, they cost a dollar more and deliver quicker, or is it sooner, and they wonder why fewer people are using the U.S. Postal service.
DAVID SCHROYER
RED LION
http://www.ydr.com/letters/ci_22186...stal-service
Posted 12/18/2012 12:23 am
