Send those smokes
Tuesday I wrote about the unintended consequences of a new law aimed at cigarette smuggling which prevented families from shipping tobacco products to their service members.
Tman writes to tell us that an exception has been made according to Associated Press;
The new instructions would allow tobacco shipments to military addresses through Priority Mail, which does ship to deployed troops, with delivery confirmation instead.
U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, the bill’s sponsor, said in a statement that he was notified Thursday of the new instructions.
“I’m pleased that the Postal Service responded so quickly to the concerns of our military families and found a way to honor the original intent of the bill: to keep cigarettes out of the hands of children and prevent tobacco smugglers from profiting on the black market,” he said.
If you dorks had read the bill you were signing in the first place, you wouldn’t have to rewrite the damn thing.
Category: Military issues
Actually, if Congress had written an exemption for APO/FPO like they did for Alaska and Hawaii in the bill, then this would never have been a problem. Freakin’ idiots. I read the whole bill a month or two ago when it first went into effect and blogged about how this stupid result of “unintended consequences” would pop up.
You give them way too much credit in assuming they CAN read. The solution is for them to hire literate staffers rather than their relatives.
Okay, but we’re still not allowed to send booze in care packages, right?