In a Fox news report on August 2, 2013 The U.S. Postal Service was looking at delivery of spirits through the mail. Allowing the Postal Service to deliver beer, wine and
spirits is high on his wish list for raising cash for his financially ailing
agency, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said Thursday.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Donahoe also
endorsed ending most door-to-door and Saturday mail deliveries as cost-saving
measures for his agency, which lost $16 billion last year.
Donahoe said delivering alcohol has the potential to raise
as much as $50 million a year. He mentioned how customers might want to, for
example, mail bottles of wine home when they tour vineyards. Donahoe said his
agency has looked at the possibility of using special boxes that would hold
two, four or six bottles and ship for a flat-rate to anywhere in the country.
"There's a lot of money to be made in beer, wine and
spirits," Donahoe said. "We'd like to be in that business."
Lately UPS has quit delivering liquor, leaving a gap for the "online" liquor sales business. I know that I can no longer receive deliveries from some of my favorite rum providers through UPS or Fed Ex, this will help make the attainment of good rums much easier. ;o)
