Today I shipped two bottles of wine by UPS. When I left my home, my wife told me that it was against the law to ship wine by mail. I was not aware of this. I assume she is correct unless someone can tell me otherwise.
Depends on where you're shipping to and from. Some states allow it, others do not.
Dave
**************************************************************************** Dave Breeden snipped-for-privacy@lightlink.comI'm in Wisconsin and I just got some wine via UPS from my brother in Florida. I thought it was against the law too. It got here in one piece too, considering how my brother packaged it. Darlene
Call me crazy but is UPS not different than US postal or Canada Post? I thought UPS was a courrier company as opposed to the post office. You can pretty much "ship" anything but the post office tends to be a bit more skittish whith whats being shipped.
Just my $0.02 ($0.026 US)
Sean
You cannot ship wine via USPS (federal regulations, they want their taxes, something I've never researched, etc.). Additionally, you'll find that UPS will not carry wine - if they know it is wine.
In my search conducted a year ago, only DHL did *not* say that they wouldn't ship wine (i.e. others expressly forbade it). Now, DHL and Airborne are married so who knows?
IMO, the best method is to send the wine *not* via USPS and label the package "test sample".
I'm sure I'm not the only one who got wine. He didn't package it that well - only wrote "fragile" on the package. I could hear the wine swish in the bottles, so I don't know how they could know it wasn't wine. I don't know that I'd ever send wine like this. Years ago, we got some wine shipped from a winery out west as a Christmas present. It was a very cold year - the wine froze, 2 bottles popped, and the other two had leaks from the corks - the package was a mess. The winery did send us another box, which got here in one piece. I know it's done, I just won't know that I would do it. Darlene
USPS freely ships "cooking" wine. Just label the box (and wine?) accordingly. See section 42 in
I think UPS has the same policy on cooking wine. For table wine, they go by the state-based trade agreements. See
Good Luck, David
Good find on UPS' site. I didn't find it when I lived in NY and now that I'm in Georgia, it isn't allowed. Nice...
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I normally place a shallow layer of paraffin over my corks when bottling. Does anyone know where I might get an metal stamp of sorts to press into the melted paraffin before it dries to give a signature to the finished bottle?
Nice idea for finishing your bottling. The Chinese use a "chop" which is a kind of signature stamp. You might get what you want made through a Chinese market or Chinese jeweler.
Ray
Do not ship wine! Ship only "yeast samples"
Fred
Used to see a lot of things like this at Hallmark stores, or stationary stores where you could get wax to seal envelopes. Not as much call for that as there used to be, so who knows, but there's an idea.
Rob
It depends a lot on who's accepting the shipment, BTW. I've luckily found a rather clueless MailBoxesEtc./UPSstore near my home that'll seemingly take anything, including the 3 cases of commercial wine I've shipped to a friend in Boston following his visits out west.
Also, didn't they change some of the rules such that you can ship wine/alcoholic beverages to yourself? Such that if the sender is sending it to themselves at an address in some other state, it's OK? Anyone else remember this change from I'd guess earlier in 2003?
Rob
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