{"id":20116,"date":"2010-08-13T08:56:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20116"},"modified":"2010-08-13T08:56:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:56:35","slug":"send-those-smokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20116","title":{"rendered":"Send those smokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20071\">I wrote about the unintended consequences <\/a>of a new law aimed at cigarette smuggling which prevented families from shipping tobacco products to their service members.<\/p>\n<p>Tman writes to tell us that an exception has been made according to <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_MILITARY_MAILED_TOBACCO?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2010-08-12-16-50-20\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new instructions would allow tobacco shipments to military addresses through Priority Mail, which does ship to deployed troops, with delivery confirmation instead.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, the bill&#8217;s sponsor, said in a statement that he was notified Thursday of the new instructions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;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,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you dorks had read the bill you were signing in the first place, you wouldn&#8217;t have to rewrite the damn thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday I wrote about the unintended consequences of a new law aimed at cigarette smuggling which &hellip; <a title=\"Send those smokes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20116\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Send those smokes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}