Sending a friend a sample

[mfradman]

Hi to all of you, I have a buddy that lives on the right side and I am on the left side, what is consensus on shipping a bottle across the country. I know it is not legal, but than nether is making it. I don't need that sort of exposure. Any ideas?
Regards, Radman

[Dnderhead]

UPS/Fedex etc. will do this. just double pack with precautions and call it flavoring or some such.

[cob]

wine is shipped all the time. yours is just condensed. calling the contents wine could alleviate concerns about sloshing noises from contents. cob

[Samohon]

wine is shipped all the time. yours is just condensed. calling the contents wine could alleviate concerns about sloshing noises from contents. cob

My brothers a winemaker and sends bottles to his friend in Canada all the time. Told me they use FedEx for the courier...

[GreyGambler]

went to the ups store to ship out a package the other day and asked if I could ship out a bottle of wine or whiskey and they told me they would not ship it if they knew it was wine/whiskey. than they said dont tell em what it is, its flavoring or jelly whatever. Or go to fedx they dont ask questions. also they said it had to have a label and can not be a open bottle. hmmm my buddy might have to wait until I visit before he gets to sample

[Usge]

Buy a jar of Georgia Moon (it's about 8-10 bucks). Empty it out (don't even bother drinkin what's in it). Put your stuff in it. Close the jar up. Viola.

Or if you sending oaked stuff...get a makers mark bottle. Fill it. Remelt wax on the top to seal it.

More than one way...as the saying goes.

[GreyGambler]

Spot on Usge about the georgia moon throw it out! I did buy it. now after tasting it I know whats its good for a shipping container

[rad14701]

Send it in a dark wine bottle with a real cork and top it with colored foil so it looks originally authentic... And if none of your fingerprints can be found under the foil there is no way to prove that you ever knew what was in that bottle... Be safe - bottle wearing gloves...

[mfradman]

I stopped by the Post Office and asked if I can send wine and she said no but she then said that they don't open Priority mail. So if you buy a box from them it should go just fine unless they loose it.
Regards, Radman

[Mr.Spooky]

guess its like anywhere else,,, its whoever you get to know. i see the lady at the ups hub and she said that it was ok to ship wine. i even said that i have some friends in another country and would like to give them some wine and she said that it would be fine,, just pack it good. the only place that she said that you could not ship wines to, or much more for that matter, was to our soldiers. go figure.

[ScottishBoy]

If you can do an underwater seal, you wont have to worry about sloshing at all...

[goose eye]

ole boys no some folks that no some folks that there 3rd cousin said he goes to one of
them bulk stores an buys them gal water jugs that is new with a cap that locks on an
you cant take it off or you break the seal.
what they do is send wine in them thangs here an there. well as the story goes he had shiped
some an he gets a call from fed ex or was it ups -heck i dont no cause i been tole all this-
the man on the end said your package is leakin what you want us to do. he was tole to
just throw it away cause it wont nothin but icecream topin - or somethin like that -.
aint heard a thang since.
make sure its ground service with them jugs cause not all plane is presurized

as far as our boys in the sandbox not makein likker. - ha ha


so im tole

[Mr.Spooky]

ole boys no some folks that no some folks that there 3rd cousin said he goes to one of
them bulk stores an buys them gal water jugs that is new with a cap that locks on an
you cant take it off or you break the seal.
what they do is send wine in them thangs here an there. well as the story goes he had shiped
some an he gets a call from fed ex or was it ups -heck i dont no cause i been tole all this-
the man on the end said your package is leakin what you want us to do. he was tole to
just throw it away cause it wont nothin but icecream topin - or somethin like that -.
aint heard a thang since.
make sure its ground service with them jugs cause not all plane is presurized

as far as our boys in the sandbox not makein likker. - ha ha


so im tole

them fellas know what there doing dont they goose

[LWTCS]

as far as our boys in the sandbox not makein likker. - ha ha

I'm sure I read some posts awhile back from the sand box.

If I were in the sand box, I'm fairly certain I'd have some kind of make shift rig goin just to rest my mind.