Bourbon

[MileHighGrowler]

(03-25-2021, 01:48 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Oh come on, there's just no way that would happen. 10 years in prison for shipping alcohol? Give me a break. 

I find it absolutely hilarious and hypocritical that you can now get alcohol delivered from a store in Ohio but still cant ship it through the mail.

The laws surrounding shipment of alcohol are pretty crazy.  Especially considering that I get a monthly shipment of wine and occasional other shipments of booze via FedEx from licensed distributers.  We're still pretty slow to progress from our Prohibition thinking in this country.  

I will say that the odds of getting caught or punished seem to be very low.  I know within the beer world there is a significant market of trading going on around the country, and it's all being shipped via UPS or FedEx and just not declared.  I'm sure there are similar trades happening in the bourbon world and other liquor as well.  I kinda feel like unless you're trying to run a business without proper licensing, the carriers don't care enough to find out what you're shipping and it's not worth the states' time to try and stop it.  

But the potential penalties are enough to give most people pause, and in the end, that's probably all they're really trying to do.